MANTO is a dynamic digital portal of Greek myth.
It allows anyone to access, explore, and understand a storytelling tradition that extends over 2500 years.
MANTO provides authoritative data for researchers that will make big questions about the dynamics of myth answerable at unprecedented scale.
MANTO currently has data from these ancient texts:
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes
Apollodoros, Library and Epitome
Bacchylides, Odes, Dithyrambs, fragments
Callimachus, Hymns
Dionysios, Periegesis
D-Scholia to the Iliad
Epic fragments (Oedipodia, Thebaid, Epigonoi, Alcmaionid, Cypria, Aithiopis, Little Iliad, Sack of Troy, Nostoi, Telegony, Heracleia, Theseis, Theogony, Corinthaica, Naupactica, Phoronis etc)
Euripides, Alcestis, Cyclops, Hippolytos, Medeia, Phoinician Women, Suppliant Women, Trojan Women
Hesiod (and Hesiodic corpus), Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women), Shield of Heracles, Theogony, Works & Days and fragments
Homer, Iliad and Odyssey
the Homeric Hymns
Lindos Chronicle
Lucian, Astrology
Lyric fragments (Myrtis, Corinna, Timocreon, Lamprocles, Ion of Chios etc)
Pausanias, Periegesis
Ovid, Amores
Peri Apiston treatises (Palaiphatos, Heraclitus, Anonymous Excerpta Vaticana)
Pindar, Odes and fragments
Pomponius Mela, Chorographia
Plutarch, Life of Theseus
Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers
Strabo, Geography
Vergil, Eclogues, Georgics
…with more to come
MANTO has worked with these collections and projects to capture data from artifacts:
Auckland War Memorial Museum/ Tāmaki Paenga Hira
P&A Canellopoulos Museum, Athens
Classics Museum, Australian National University
Classics Museum, Victoria University of Wellington
International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)
John Elliott Classics Museum, University of Tasmania
Monash Centre for Ancient Cultures
Nicholson Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
Open Context
Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP)
Queensland Museum Network
RD Milns Museum, University of Queensland
Te Papa Tongarewa / Museum of New Zealand
Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, University of Canterbury
Tūhura Otago Museum
…with more to come
Using MANTO
In this video Scott Smith takes you though the basics of using MANTO’s interface to explore the world of Greek myth.
For a longer video that describes the full data collection process, go here.
There’s a lot more information about this project and its progress in our blog.
Documentation, in the form of our Manual of Data Collection, can be found here.
This is a collaborative project
It is co-directed by Greta Hawes and Scott Smith
We are grateful for the funding and support we have received from:
The University of New Hampshire: Center for the Humanities and Geospatial Services Center; the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies
Macquarie University: DataX
Australian National University: Centre for Digital Humanities Research; Classics Endowment Fund; College of Arts and Social Sciences; Research School of Humanities and the Arts; and School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics.
Greta Hawes’ work on the project in the period 2017-21 was supported by an Australian Research Council DECRA Award; her work in the period 2023-30 is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.
We gratefully acknowledge the hard work and enthusiasm of MANTO’s data collectors:
Artifacts: Melissa Applin, Ewan Coopey, Greta Hawes, Jessica McKenzie, Lisa Rheinberger, Tiara Russo
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, Seven against Thebes: Melina Ryan, Scott Smith
Apollodoros, Library and Epitome: Louis Becker, Tiana Blazevic, Glen Goodwin, Rod Harvey, Greta Hawes, Tate Jenetsky, Liam Maldoni, Charles McIntosh, Elizabeth Minchin, Felicity O'Neil, Daniel Prestipino, Rosie Selth, Philip Wager
Apollonios, Argonautica: Jack Anderson, Audrey Coleman, Jake Compagna, Maggie Joyce, Jessica Roberts, Ari Toumpas, Thomas Vachon, Jack Wirth
Bacchylides: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Callimachus, Aetia & Hymns: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Diodoros: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth, Scott Smith
Dionysios, Periegesis: Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
D-Scholia, Iliad: Michael Ampe, Samuel Boulton, Karter Hanley, Taylor Italia, Jillian Jezior, Noah Mello, Benjamin Menard, Abigail Michaels, Georgina Ramadanovic, Enzo Reyes, Jillienne Robinson-Warren, Sofia Sylvestri, Morgan Twombly, David Wilson, Joy Woolley
Epic fragments: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Euripides, Alcestis, Hippolytus, Medea, Phoenician Women: Melina Ryan, Scott Smith
Euripides, Cyclops, Suppliant Women, Trojan Women: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Hesiod, Theogony and Works & Days: Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Hesiod, Ehoiai, Shield of Heracles, and other fragments Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Homer, Iliad: Glen Goodwin, Rod Harvey, Greta Hawes, Tate Jenetsky, Liam Maldoni, Elizabeth Minchin, James O’Maley, Daniel Prestipino, Rosie Selth, Philip Wager.
Homer, Odyssey: Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Homeric Hymns: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth, Ari Toumpas
Hyginus, Fabulae: Rosie Selth
Lindos Chronicle: Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, Tate Jenetsky, Liam Maldoni, Daniel Prestipino, Rosie Selth, Philip Wager
Lucian: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Lycophron, Alexandra: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Lyric fragments: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Ovid, Amores: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Ovid, Ibis: Darcy Krasne
Ovid, Metamorphoses: Georgina Ramadanovic, Scott Smith
Pausanias, Periegesis: Kennis Barker, Audrey Coleman, Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, James O’Maley, Rosie Selth, Scott Smith, Ari Toumpas
Peri Apiston treatises: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Pindar: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Plutarch, Life of Theseus: Greta Hawes, Scott Smith, Ari Toumpas
Pomponius Mela: Jarrod Ballesty, Greta Hawes, Gabriel Jower, Ryan Merlino, Tiana Munro, Ben Payne, Caitlin Shanahan
Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth
Servius, Scholia to Vergil: Jack Wirth
Sophocles, Aias and Electra: Melina Ryan, Scott Smith
Strabo: Jarrod Ballesty, Greta Hawes, Gabriel Jower, Ryan Merlino, Henry Muhlena, Tiana Munro, Lee Patterson, Ben Payne, Rosie Selth, Caitlin Shanahan, Scott Smith
Vergil, Eclogues and Georgics: Rosemary Selth