In literary history, there are few figures who have been received as frequently as classical characters. However, evaluating a character’s reception history often depends on the person doing the Interpretation and can thus be limited by their individual understanding of language. While comparing different interpretations is one way to address this problem, I want to try a different approach: a diachronic Emotion analysis using word embeddings from different time periods along with the VAD (Valence-Arousal-Dominance) emotional model. In this way, the resulting VAD scores should better reflect how a text judged a Character using the language of its own time. By comparing works from different periods but centered around the same group of classical women, I hope togain new insights into their reception history.