Word lengths in Classical and Post-classical Greek

The purpose of this dataset is to collate average word lengths in Greek in the Classical period (using a sample of text from the fifth century BCE) and the average word lengths in the Post-classical period (using a sample of text from the first century CE). This dataset, which is stored as an CSV file in the Harvard Dataverse, has been used to demonstrate that the average length of words in Greek increased significantly between the Classical and Post-classical periods. It comprises two word lists and corresponding word lengths for each sample; a table of the average word lengths (for nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and total) of each sample and the statistical t-test results showing the significance of the difference in word lengths between Classical and Post-classical Greek. This dataset has a reuse potential for linguists investigating diachronic change in word lengths as well as for historical linguists looking at the evolution of Classical and Post-classical Greek.