Support Us

written by Greta Hawes and Scott Smith

MythLab was founded on some simple ambitions. We wanted to make information about the ancient traditions of Greek myth available in smart, interesting and innovative ways. We wanted to involve our students in everything we did and support them to become emerging researchers. And we wanted to make everything we created freely accessible online.

Over the past 8 years, we’ve built MANTO as an authoritative dataset of Greek myth; we’ve launched The Greek Myth Files as a smart, accessible podcast; and we’ve created Canopos as a repository for new translations of ancient texts.

We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, the collaborations we’ve fostered, and the students we’ve supported (and learned so much from).

As with any sprawling research project, MythLab will always be a labour of love, carried out in stolen moments, late nights, and weekends. It would not exist without thousands of hours given to it by volunteers who are passionate about the ancient world, and about making that world accessible to others.

We’ve been fortunate to have received funding to support this work from our home universities, from the Gale Fund, the Center for Hellenic Studies, and from the Australian Research Council.

But a simple fact remains: like most projects in digital humanities, we have no guarantees about what support we might have in the future. And we are operating in a world where teaching and research in the humanities are being cut as budgets retract.

MythLab costs around $3600 USD ($4600 AUD) a year to keep online. This covers just the maintenance and hosting of our sites.

If you value what we do, you can help keep us going with a donation.

Click here to buy us a coffee.

Or contact the philanthropy offices at the University of New Hampshire or Macquarie University.

We appreciate your support.