How i prepared the data
Basically, all ancient authors have been dead for more than 70 years, so all their works are in the public domain. Since most of them are popular classics, you can almost always find their texts for free on the Internet. A challenge is to find a suitable English translation that is also in the public domain. But here, too, you will quickly find what you are looking for.
Short disclaimer: This is not legal advice and I didn’t study law, so you better do your own research. In the external links below you will find suitable literature. The best source for English translations of classical texts is, as far as I know, The Internet Classics Archive from MIT. There I also found the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
Preparation of the dataset
So now I had a text file of the book, which can be imported into Processing very well as it is. However, the work consists of a total of 12 books, each containing between about 30 and 80 verses and i wanted create the opportunity to targeting specific text passages in my code. And this is pretty hard with a plain text document. So I decided to break the entire book into its individual parts in 2 days of work. For this purpose I created a MySQL database and stored each of the almost 400 verses there individually. This way I was able to generate a JSON file that stores every single verse with the numbers of the text passage.
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