Vocabulary lists for particular authors

Is it possible to construct a vocabulary list which excludes the most common words (e.g. those on the Dickinson College Core Vocabulary list)?
Perseus doesn’t seem to allow this.

Yes, you can easily do it. I make vocabulary lists using Excel. I have the words in Excel. In another Excel file, easy.xls, I have the words I know. Using the VLOOKUP function, I check if those words are in the easy.xls file. I delete the ones that are there, and that’s it. Only the words I don’t know remain.

Here it is!

https://anastrophe.uchicago.edu/perseus/GreekFrequency.html

Yes, that’s pretty good, but the problem is that it’s ordered by the occurrence of words in that particular book. If an author uses an unusual word a lot, you’ll lose it. Conversely, a lot of frequent words, if he uses them just a few times, you’re stuck with them again.

Here’s a better tool, in my opinion:
https://vocab.perseus.org/word-list/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg006.perseus-grc2/?o=-3&page=all

  1. You can sort words by occurrence both in the book and by occurrence in the entire Greek corpus. And I would use this sorting by occurrence in the whole corpus to remove the most frequent words.
  2. There are also short definitions in English for the words.

what author are you looking for?

Plato