MANTO x LIMC
Greta Hawes describes recent work in aligning entities across datasets related to mythic people, and makes available the current alignments MANTO holds to LIMC and Wikidata.
MANTO x DAD
Greta Hawes describes a PACE internship that will add the Gdańsk Decorated Armour Database’s corpus of shieldbands decorated with mythic scenes to MANTO
MANTO x AIO
Greta Hawes describes the first additions of epigraphy to MANTO, in collaboration with Attic Inscriptions Online
Greek myths on Pompeiian walls by numbers, and networks
Greta Hawes rounds out the year’s work on myths at Pompeii with some facts and figures
MANTO x Pausanias
Anika Campbell recounts her work to add artefacts described in Pausanias into MANTO
Mythic chronology in Pausanias: preliminary data analysis
Preliminary data from modelling genealogical relationships and interactions in Pausanias in an attempt to understand his concept of mythic chronology
New publication: “Matrilineal succession in Greek myth”
In a newly-published article, Greta Hawes and Rosemary Selth consider the phenomenon of matrilineal succession in its full complexity.
From narrative to symbol: mythological imagery on Roman sarcophagi
Hallie Burke reflects on the taste for macabre scenes on Roman sarcophagi
Damsels in distress: depictions of mythical women at Pompeii and what they say about Pompeiian women and society
Charne Combrink reflects on the ubiquity of depictions of mythical women in vulnerable situations at Pompeii
Finding differences in mythological depictions - my experience with the MANTO project.
Jade Wallace reflects on differences in the treatments of Eosphoros and Hesperos
The ship of Theseus… sailing away
Corey Hynds reflects on the frequent appearance of “romantic” scenes of Ariadne in Pompeiian wall paintings.
What can we learn from violent depictions of myth?
Emily Mifsud reflects on some overly violent scenes from Pompeiian wall paintings.
MANTO x PALP; or, Pompeii room-by-room
An overview of our work to incorporate Pompeian wall paintings into MANTO
NADAC, LOD, MANTO, and other connective acronyms
A guest post for the NADAC blog on how we use linked open data in MANTO.
LP9: Digital Classicist Wiki
Rosemary Selth reports on her work participating in the LP9 geo-themed sprint for the Digital Classicist Wiki
Artifacts in MANTO: capturing places
A discussion, prompted by time spent with the collection of the Canellopoulos Museum in Athens, about depictions of mythic places on ancient artifacts
Artifacts in MANTO: what’s in name?
A discussion, prompted by time spent with the collection of the Canellopoulos Museum in Athens, about the meanings and meaninglessness of names
Artifacts in MANTO: what do myths even look like?
A discussion, prompted by time spent with the collection of the Canellopoulos Museum in Athens, about how we even identify images of myths.
Artifacts in MANTO: practical (im)possibilities
A discussion, prompted by time spent with the collection of the Canellopoulos Museum in Athens, about how we decide which artifacts to include in MANTO.