ATHEN is mainly developed in the context of the project Kallimachos at the University of Wuerzburg. Its main purpose was to support the annotation process of DROC ( <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="bold">D</hi>eutscher <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="bold">RO</hi>man <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="bold">C</hi>orpus). Currently automatic creation of literary interaction networks, automatic genre detection of novels and sentiment analysis in literary novels are in the focus of interest.