https://www.manto-myth.org/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/mythical-stories-in-the-ancient-notes-to-homers-odyssey monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/double-tombs-of-mythical-heroes monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/dd6385db-bf7c-4dd0-9953-9e11c1c137d6/Picture+1.png Blog - Double Tombs Of Mythical Heroes - Make it stand out Detail of red-figure kylix depicting Nessos carrying off Deianeira, ca. 520BC-510BC. Image: The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a7d2bb99-fd51-411e-9116-054c8e1a5345/1765502627171-9d6726a8-238a-4534-a75b-92f38e8be1eb_1.jpg Blog - Double Tombs Of Mythical Heroes - Make it stand out Image of examples of double tombs compiled by Gabrielle Dolphin. For higher quality, see here. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/a-different-way-of-readingnbspgaining-insights-into-euripides-bacchae-by-viewing-the-text-from-a-new-angle monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/59f758b6-ab78-4943-9064-d461715b3e90/Image+One.png Blog - A Different Way of Reading:&nbsp;Gaining insights into Euripides’ Bacchae by viewing the text from a new angle - Make it stand out Places mentioned in the description of Dionysus’ travels before arriving in Thebes (Eur. Bacch. 1-63). The blue dots mark locations using geometry in Pleiades. Image: C. Kappely, modified from MANTO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/314d7077-badf-4a5e-83d8-5956881bed48/Image+Two.PNG Blog - A Different Way of Reading:&nbsp;Gaining insights into Euripides’ Bacchae by viewing the text from a new angle - Make it stand out Illustration of a thyrsus, a ritual symbol of Dionysus and motif used to represent his cult over the play. Image: C. Kappely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/dc5f7b9b-319d-41c2-8d81-62da760cb8ab/Image+Three.PNG Blog - A Different Way of Reading:&nbsp;Gaining insights into Euripides’ Bacchae by viewing the text from a new angle - Make it stand out Illustration: C. Kappely https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/plinys-art monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/locating-legends-plinys-take-on-myth monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/9a445f81-51ff-4787-be39-5c92f5ec8ff1/Image+1.PNG Blog - Locating Legends: Pliny’s Take on Myth - Make it stand out Illustration: C. Kappely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/b2ec9fe7-0607-42e0-99c0-013741b29887/Image+2.JPG Blog - Locating Legends: Pliny’s Take on Myth - Make it stand out Illustration: C. Kappely. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/seminar-ancient-myth-in-the-digital-age monthly 0.5 2025-10-02 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/pining-pliny-down monthly 0.5 2025-09-11 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/its-spelt-soloeis-not-soloesa-placing-myths-on-a-map-with-pseudo-skylax monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4cd4d818-546b-4a43-9182-e081c9ac3ef3/Relief_Map_of_Mediterranean_Sea.png Blog - It’s spelt “Soloeis” not “Soloesa”: placing myths on a map with Pseudo-Skylax. - Make it stand out Nzeemin (2012) Relief map of Mediterranean Sea [Map]. Based on ETOPO1 dataset (relief and bathymetry) and GSHHS dataset (coastline and country borders). Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relief_Map_of_Mediterranean_Sea.png. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/72552682-fe84-44dd-85b7-64f28a1eea55/Painting_with_Calypso.jpg Blog - It’s spelt “Soloeis” not “Soloesa”: placing myths on a map with Pseudo-Skylax. - Make it stand out Westall, R. (1803) Telemachus Landing on the Isle of Calypso (from Homer’s “Odyssey”) [Painting]. Oil on panel. Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Accession no. 257. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Westall_(1765-1836)_-_Telemachus_Landing_on_the_Isle_of_Calypso_(from_Homer%27s_%27Odyssey%27)_-_257_-_Glasgow_Museums_Resource_Centre.jpg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/30349a22-cd8b-41a0-9bf8-d9dfb4c91a12/Soloeis.png Blog - It’s spelt “Soloeis” not “Soloesa”: placing myths on a map with Pseudo-Skylax. - Make it stand out Pleiades (n.d.) Map of Soloeis [Screenshot]. Based on Google Earth data. Available at: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275724. Used for educational purposes under fair use and site’s open access policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/6f0073eb-0838-4222-96aa-2936cfb3b7c6/Wall_painting_-_seascape_with_port_-_Pompeii_%28VIII_2_28%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9484.jpeg Blog - It’s spelt “Soloeis” not “Soloesa”: placing myths on a map with Pseudo-Skylax. - Make it stand out ArchaiOptix (2018) Wall painting – seascape with port – Pompeii (VIII 2 28) – Napoli MAN 9484 [Photograph]. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, inv. no. 9484. Found at Pompeii, House with Nymphaeum (VIII, 2, 28). Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_painting_-_seascape_with_port_-_Pompeii_(VIII_2_28)_-_Napoli_MAN_9484.jpg. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/jtu6g1y7p56zyd58y386drg2al979r monthly 0.5 2025-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/b33c48c7-baa3-4e08-bb1a-9312926a2ce1/Fig+1+Day+one+goals.jpg Blog - Pots and Pan: Exploring the Mythical Greek World - Make it stand out Day one priorities. Photo: M. Angelos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/fb4844b7-9334-4f24-b59b-bf12dbaa7c72/Fig+3+physical+LIMC.jpg Blog - Pots and Pan: Exploring the Mythical Greek World - Make it stand out Day five: the physical LIMC. Thank the gods for the digital LIMC. Photo: M. Angelos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/bc1c1102-4211-4093-bbc1-5f354a57e557/Fig+4+CVA.jpg Blog - Pots and Pan: Exploring the Mythical Greek World - Make it stand out 1931 vintage CVA (Great Britain 8, British Museum 6) Photo: M. Angelos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/6d88af64-0a8e-495f-a6c8-8ff502ba9b4d/Fig+5+Hydria.jpg Blog - Pots and Pan: Exploring the Mythical Greek World - Make it stand out Attic black figure hydria attributed to the Leagros group, depicting Theseus slaying the Minotaur on the upper shoulder, and Heracles fighting the river god Acheloos on the body. British Museum B313. Photo: Trustees of the British Museum, available under Creative Commons. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/the-ontology-of-greek-mythical-entities-pt-4 monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/the-journey-of-recording-greek-mythology-into-manto-armour-addition monthly 0.5 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/b5265414-4cce-4282-ba0f-306f051b936f/Photo+1+.jpg Blog - The Journey of Recording Greek Mythology in MANTO: Armour Edition - Make it stand out Macquarie PACE internship, day three. Image: Ruby Woodbury https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/7fd4ebf8-5776-4863-9cea-9a291f36ff22/Photo+3+.jpg Blog - The Journey of Recording Greek Mythology in MANTO: Armour Edition - Make it stand out Fragment of a shieldband signed by Aristodamos of Argos, ca. 575 BCE. Getty 84.AC.11. Author: Getty open content program via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/2cb8c274-d9a9-411d-920d-4ac619718c6a/Photo+2+.jpg Blog - The Journey of Recording Greek Mythology in MANTO: Armour Edition - Make it stand out Zeus fighting Typhon, as depicted on a black figure hydria, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, no. 596. Image: Bibi Saint-Pol, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/9a27c16b-8e42-438c-954e-c1e09da0a3cf/Thumbnail+image+and+Photo+4.jpg Blog - The Journey of Recording Greek Mythology in MANTO: Armour Edition - Make it stand out Mosaic depicting Europa being carried away by Zeus who had fallen in love with her and turned himself into a white bull in order to kidnap her from her family and take her to Crete. Gaziantep Zeugma Museum. Image: Dosseman, via Wikimedia Commons https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/things-mentioned-by-pausanias-or-an-excuse-to-talk-about-secondary-sources monthly 0.5 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/09778d02-de31-4d3c-936f-51939ff33f27/Group+Primary_Secondary+source+graphics_Page_1.jpg Blog - Things mentioned by Pausanias (or, an excuse to talk about complications with sources) - Make it stand out MANTO’s model of relationships between sources and entities where the direct and indirect sources are both textual (a text, inscription, or papyrus). Image: Anika Campbell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/983592c6-0de8-4369-a9a8-2fc7b1d1b89c/Group+Primary_Secondary+source+graphics_Page_2.jpg Blog - Things mentioned by Pausanias (or, an excuse to talk about complications with sources) - Make it stand out MANTO’s model of relationships between sources and entities where the direct source is visual (an artifact) and the indirect source is textual (a text or inscription). Image: Anika Campbell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/0ae070ae-e6dd-4e9b-aa29-112d4a79d9c5/Group+Primary_Secondary+source+graphics_Page_4.jpg Blog - Things mentioned by Pausanias (or, an excuse to talk about complications with sources) - Make it stand out MANTO’s model of relationships between sources and entities where the direct source is textual (a text, inscription or papyrus) and the indirect source is visual (an artifact). Image: Anika Campbell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/cdcad6a9-0b6c-4851-8db7-41595de5c5f7/Group+Primary_Secondary+source+graphics_Page_3.jpg Blog - Things mentioned by Pausanias (or, an excuse to talk about complications with sources) - Make it stand out MANTO’s model of relationships between sources and entities where the direct source is textual (a text, inscription or papyrus) and it attributes information to local tradition. Image: Anika Campbell. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/between-gods-and-mortals-tracing-the-expression-of-ancient-greek-myths-through-artefacts-and-data monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1601ddb7-9f77-4222-ae17-fefab02e7d12/Image+1.jpg Blog - Between Gods and Mortals: Tracing the Expression of Ancient Greek Myths Through Artefacts and Data - Make it stand out Two other PACE interns, Chris and Archie, working on organising the online spreadsheet of bronze shieldbands from Olympia. Image: V. Russo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/336791db-81ae-4de6-a64b-ea0a4ff68ef5/Image+2.jpg Blog - Between Gods and Mortals: Tracing the Expression of Ancient Greek Myths Through Artefacts and Data - Make it stand out Silver Didrachm of Fenserni from Campania, Italy, ca. 395-390 BCE. Historia Nummorum Italy 538. Obverse: Head of Hera wearing a diadem. Reverse: Bellerophon fights the Chimaira with the help of Pegasos. Image: Gallica. Used in accordance with Creative Commons license. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x-limc monthly 0.5 2025-04-29 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x-dad monthly 0.5 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4c9c117e-63ba-46b9-8749-794e5394e11e/IMG_5857.jpg Blog - MANTO x DAD - Make it stand out MANTO internship, day one. Photo: G. Hawes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/30b65207-af6a-47b9-9e15-9a930c506883/Menelaos_Paris_Louvre_G115.jpg Blog - MANTO x DAD - Make it stand out Detail of exterior of Attic red-figure kylix from Capua, now in the Louvre (G 115) ca. 490–480 BCE. Paris is pursued by Menelaos who is depicted with the inside of his shield visible showing how it attaches to his arm. The shieldband runs vertically through the middle of the shield and over his elbow. Photo: Bibi Saint-Pol via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x-attic-inscriptions-online monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/pompeii-by-numbers-and-networks monthly 0.5 2024-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/62870d68-ffd1-4d09-b2cc-aa4698dd6c5e/Screen+Shot+2024-12-13+at+10.36.02+am.png Blog - Greek myths on Pompeiian walls by numbers, and networks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4fe6c82b-e648-4792-9176-75bfb9ab3db1/Screen+Shot+2024-12-13+at+10.42.35+am.png Blog - Greek myths on Pompeiian walls by numbers, and networks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/afa7304d-a898-44b4-b716-4309ee4f3f65/Wall_painting_-_Ares_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_23%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9249_-_03.jpg Blog - Greek myths on Pompeiian walls by numbers, and networks - Make it stand out Aphrodite and Ares. Wall painting from Casa dell’Amore Punito, Pompeii VII 2, 23. Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 9249. See in MANTO here. Used under Creative Commons license. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4405e05a-540d-4fa4-94ad-fc57bf2db0b1/2_entities_alltype_updated+sm.png Blog - Greek myths on Pompeiian walls by numbers, and networks - Make it stand out Network graph representing the Greek mythic storyworld as depicted on wall paintings and mosaics at Pompeii. Data drawn from MANTO’s dataset, with co-occurrence of entities in a tie used as a proxy for narrative interaction. Colour of nodes represents entity type; size indicates number of appearances. Width of edges represents number of connections. Data and full resolution graph available here. Graphic: Xinyi Xu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/2d85fe35-9a87-4f3d-ae25-74102d48b6c6/Wall_painting_-_Odysseus_discovering_Achilles_on_Skyros_-_Pompeii_%28VI_9_6%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9110.jpg Blog - Greek myths on Pompeiian walls by numbers, and networks - Make it stand out Achilles, hidden amongst the daughters of Lycomedes on Scyros, is discovered by Odysseus when he reaches to claim a gift of weaponry. Wall painting from the House of the Dioscouroi, Pompeii VI, 9, 6 tablinum (42). Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 9110. See in MANTO here. Used under Creative Commons license. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x-pausanias monthly 0.5 2024-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/942eed5b-768b-48cb-95c3-be0d02bbe4e1/image001.jpg Blog - MANTO x Pausanias - Make it stand out Marble relief sculpture of reclining Dionysos, from Parthenon east pediment, ca. 447–433 BC. British Museum, inv. 1816,0610.93. This is part of one of the few artefacts described by Pausanias (1.24.5) that is still surviving. I had the pleasure of cataloguing it as part of this project. Image: Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/0695c85d-35f1-414c-ba6a-057709d8b458/image002.jpg Blog - MANTO x Pausanias - Make it stand out Macquarie PACE internship, day four. Image: Anika Campbell https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/mythic-chronology-in-pausanias-preliminary-data-analysis monthly 0.5 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/51c8a75a-f659-4053-884f-caf3350b6c50/Big+family+.jpg Blog - Mythic chronology in Pausanias: preliminary data analysis - Make it stand out Network graph showing “the big family” in Pausanias, using preliminary data from MANTO 9 July 2024, created by Xinyi Xu. Nodes show gender (pink: female; blue: male; green: undefined). Edges show types of relationships (blue: child; purple: spouse; green: descendant; orange: sibling). Arrows point from parents to children. For high resolution version click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/12e45a72-80bf-445d-afb3-46e5fbe59642/Small+families+.jpg Blog - Mythic chronology in Pausanias: preliminary data analysis - Make it stand out Network graph showing the “small families” in Pausanias, using preliminary data from MANTO 9 July 2024, created by Xinyi Xu. Nodes show gender (pink: female; blue: male; green: undefined). Edges show types of relationships (blue: child; purple: spouse; green: descendant; orange: sibling). Arrows point from parents to children. For high resolution version click here. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/new-publication-matrilineal-succession-in-greek-myth monthly 0.5 2024-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a8d60e29-0cd7-4a79-a066-a5479b803bcb/Screen+Shot+2024-05-31+at+4.23.26+pm.png Blog - New publication: “Matrilineal succession in Greek myth” - Make it stand out Genealogical connections of the Seven at Argos. A synthetic rendering of the traditions discussed in the article. Not all alternatives for parentage of Aigialeia, Cyanippos and Hippomedon shown. Capaneus appears four times to capture alternative genealogies. Not all relationships shown. Names in upper case are rulers at Argos; underlined names are members of the Seven. Dotted lines represent patrilines greater than one generation. Hawes & Selth, “Matrilineal succession in Greek myth” Classical Quarterly 2024, fig. 4. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/from-narrative-to-symbol-mythological-imagery-on-roman-sarcophagi monthly 0.5 2024-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/ab88152f-96ca-4851-9a48-aacf119c05be/Image+One_Louvre+Sarcophagus_Actaeon+and+Artemis.jpg Blog - From narrative to symbol: mythological imagery on Roman sarcophagi - Make it stand out Roman Marble Sarcophagus from the Louvre (inv. MA 459), depicting the myth of Actaeon and Artemis. Image: Wikimedia. Used in accordance with CC license. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/000ef4d9-9d86-420e-a9ef-473f1b0a87ac/Image+Two_Berlin+Sarcophagus_Creusa+and+Medea.jpg Blog - From narrative to symbol: mythological imagery on Roman sarcophagi - Make it stand out Roman Marble Sarcophagus from the Berlin State Museums (inv. SK 843b), depicting the myth of Creusa and Medea. Image: Wikimedia. Used in accordance with CC license. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/damsels-in-distress-depictions-of-mythical-women-at-pompeii-and-what-they-say-about-pompeiian-women-and-society monthly 0.5 2024-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/cad5d1dc-bf2e-41f9-bd9d-c401260e6a6b/Abandoned_Ariadne_fresco_from_Casa_di_Meleagro%2C_Pompeii.jpg Blog - Damsels in distress: depictions of mythical women at Pompeii and what they say about Pompeiian women and society - Make it stand out Wall painting from the Casa di Meleagro (VI 9, 2), Pompeii, 1st c. AD, depicting Theseus abandoning Ariadne. Museo Archeologico di Napoli, inv. 9051. Image: Wikimedia. Used in accordance with creative commons license. View in PALP or MANTO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/6da042bd-02fd-4903-9227-5abfafe35e62/House_of_the_Vettii_VI_15%2C1_Pompeii_2023_Detail_of_painted_figure_of_Leda_and_the_Swan_from_center_of_upper_south_wall_of_oecus_courtesy_of_Klaus_Heese.jpg Blog - Damsels in distress: depictions of mythical women at Pompeii and what they say about Pompeiian women and society - Make it stand out Wall painting from House of the Vettii (VI 15, 1), Pompeii, 1st c. AD, depicting Leda with a swan, who is Zeus in his changed form. Image: Wikimedia. Used in accordance with creative commons license. View in PALP or MANTO. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/finding-differences-in-mythological-depictions-my-experience-with-the-manto-project monthly 0.5 2024-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/cd76df4e-c925-45af-a986-160703999d23/Drawing_by_Nicola_La_Volpe%2C_1866%2C_of_painting_of_Hesperus_and_Venus_with_a_cupid%2C_now_in_mediocre_condition_and_faded_from_east_wall_House_of_the_Diadumeni_Pompeii.jpg Blog - Finding differences in mythological depictions - my experience with the MANTO project. - Make it stand out Image: Drawing by Nicola La Volpe, 1866, of wall painting of Hesperus and Venus with a Cupid, now in mediocre condition and faded, from east wall House of the Diadumeni, Pompeii. Image: Wikicommons https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/the-ship-of-theseus-sailing-away monthly 0.5 2024-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/ab6456af-898a-48a7-9cc5-47cef4fde779/House_of_the_Arches_Pompeii_19th_century_drawing_by_Geremia_Discanno_of_wall_painting_from_south_wall_of_room_%28i%29_depicting_Dionysus_discovering_Ariadne.jpg Blog - The ship of Theseus… sailing away - Make it stand out 19th-century drawing by Geremia Discanno of a wall painting from the Casa degli Archi in Pompeii (IX, 7, 20, space i) depicting Dionysos discovering a sleeping Ariadne. 1st c. CE. Image: Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a5d25591-74ac-4359-ba1f-7a76b04a4919/Die_Komposition_der_pompejanischen_Wandgema%CC%88lde_%281909%29_%2814593998527%29.jpg Blog - The ship of Theseus… sailing away - Make it stand out Wall painting from the Casa dei Vetti in Pompeii (VI, 15, 1, space e) depicting Pan and Eros preparing to fight with the audience of Dionysos and Ariadne. Image: Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/8c1b875d-4d90-47db-8afa-4723f6db9a51/main-image.jpg Blog - The ship of Theseus… sailing away - Make it stand out Roman marble sarcophagus found near Capranica, Roman Campagna, depicting the myth of Theseus and Ariadne (c. 130-150 CE). The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art, New York, No. 90.12ab. Image: The Met. Distributed through the MET Open Access Policy. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/k3q9acfrvmi6xyw89hgowexljrgf2a monthly 0.5 2024-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/ab2b7115-60c5-43bd-93b5-a5b9379b056c/924px-Phrixos_und_Helle.jpg Blog - What can we learn from violent depictions of myth? - Make it stand out Book illustration from 1902 or earlier of a Pompeiian Fresco depicting Helle's fall from the ram. Phrixus reaches to save her but inevitably Helle drowns and gives her name to the crossing point known as Hellespont. J. C. Andrä, Griechische Heldensagen für die Jugend bearbeitet (Berlin, 1902). Image: wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a134060a-20be-4179-bfa4-03b444ef0676/Nessus.jpeg Blog - What can we learn from violent depictions of myth? - Make it stand out Nessus attempts to take Deianira from Hercules. Etching by Antonio Tempesta 1608. Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 2012.136.425.4) Nessus has captured Deinanira on his back as he is chased by an armed Heracles. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-x-palp-or-pompeii-room-by-room monthly 0.5 2024-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/3a85134f-20cf-4564-847a-ccd674941189/Roman_fresco_depicting_the_arrival_of_the_Trojan_horse_before_the_gates_of_Troy_found_in_the_House_of_Cipius_Pamphilus_Felix_%28Pompeii_VII_6%2C38%29.jpeg Blog - MANTO x PALP; or, Pompeii room-by-room - Make it stand out Wall painting from Pompeii showing the Trojan Horse being taken into the city. 1st c. CE. National Archaeological Museum, Naples inv. 9010. Image: Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/d3b019be-faec-4aec-9edc-b8b1d5a6e357/IMG_4678.jpg Blog - MANTO x PALP; or, Pompeii room-by-room - Make it stand out Macquarie PACE internship, day two. Image: Greta Hawes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/575f6f47-7c88-48df-aa58-6c2e4065d47a/Dioniso_scopre_arianna%2C_da_casa_dei_capitelli_colorati_a_pompei%2C_9278_%28cropped%29.jpeg Blog - MANTO x PALP; or, Pompeii room-by-room - Make it stand out Detail of wall painting from the Casa dei Capitelli Colorati (VII, 4, 51.31, oecus 24) in Pompeii showing Ariadne asleep on Naxos, and the arrival of Dionysos. 1st c. CE. National Archaeological Museum, Naples inv. 9278. Image: Wikimedia Commons. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/the-ontology-of-mythical-characters-part-3 monthly 0.5 2024-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1610743109885-F6YDOD4VID1QCZ1S4TKA/Talos+Slide.jpg Blog - The Ontology of Mythical Characters, Part 3 Figure 1: Co-Referencing and Certainty Factor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/d6262d15-3e48-4108-9e4b-21fa08fc57b0/Daphne+in+Myth.png Blog - The Ontology of Mythical Characters, Part 3 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/nadac-lod-manto-and-other-connective-acronyms monthly 0.5 2024-02-26 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/lp9-digital-classicist-wiki monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/artifacts-in-manto-capturing-places monthly 0.5 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/034ad393-aa49-4e36-a13e-7c4ab0b31203/%CE%94+0061-02-%CE%9D%CE%A3.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: capturing places - Attic black-figure lekythos attributed to the Diosphos Painter (ca. 480-470 BCE) showing the duel between Achilles and Memnon with Eos and Thetis. See in MANTO. Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 61. Photograph: Nikos Stournaras. Image used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/b5a2745a-9bdd-4b84-aa25-9951588659c0/%CE%94+1319.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: capturing places - Make it stand out Line drawing of Corinthian black-figure aryballos depicting Achilles’ pursuit of Troilos, and a Chimaira-like hybrid figure (ca. mid-6th c. BCE). See in MANTO. Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 1319. Image: George Vdokakis. Image used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/5f7db2ba-8b55-4afe-9d40-91be01664e8d/N0601_r-%CE%A3%CE%9C.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: capturing places - Make it stand out Silver stater from Knossos depicting the labyrinth (between 320/310 and 280/270 BCE). See in MANTO. Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. N 601. Photograph: Sokratis Mavrommatis. Image used with permission. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/artifacts-in-manto-whats-in-name monthly 0.5 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/fce18789-b45a-4eb2-add7-9991b558b7bb/Kleitias_-_ABV_77_1_-_compendium_of_Greek_mythology_-_Firenze_MAN_4209_-_19.jpeg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: what’s in name? - Make it stand out Attic Black-Figure Krater (“The François Vase”) by Cleitias, ca. 570 BCE. Florence 4209. Part of the middle frieze on the body, showing Achilles’ ambush of Troilos. “Troon” is the man with the water vessel to the left of the fountain house; “Rhodia” is the woman with her hands raised in alarm on the left of the fountain house. Image from Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/2431e86b-4da3-4b22-a225-47caef56ff39/%CE%94+2500-05-%CE%93%CE%92.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: what’s in name? - Make it stand out Detail of Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater by the Dinos Painter depicting the departure of Meleager for the Calydonian Boar hunt (ca. 420 BCE). See in MANTO. Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 2500. Photograph: George Vdokakis. Image used with permission. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/artifacts-in-manto-what-do-myths-even-look-like monthly 0.5 2024-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/40651157-65e2-4b6f-a3a0-abf892741f16/%CE%94+1389_1.JPG Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: what do myths even look like? - Make it stand out Terracotta figurine probably depicting Europa’s abduction by Zeus in the form of a bull. (Late 5th c. / early 4th c. BCE) Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 1389. Photograph: Sokratis Mavrommatis. Image used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/491520d9-e27d-435e-b419-8da0187e72e6/%CE%94+2458+%282%29.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: what do myths even look like? - Make it stand out Late Minoan III terracotta equestrian figurine (ca. 1400-1050 BCE) Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 2458. Image used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/646daf4e-478e-4a81-ad98-f698cf668dff/%CE%94+0079-03-%CE%9D%CE%A3.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: what do myths even look like? - Make it stand out Black-figure lekythos with scenes of two women riding bulls (late 5th c. BCE) Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 79. Photograph: Nikos Stournaras. Image used with permission. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/artifacts-in-manto-practical-impossibilities monthly 0.5 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/b75e7fb0-3dca-4535-8291-31c8324ba5aa/%CE%94+0431-04-%CE%9D%CE%A3.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: practical (im)possibilities - Make it stand out Black-figure trefoil oinochoe with scene of an armed Amazon. Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 431. Photograph: Nikos Stournaras. Image used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/d6fb41c2-d9b8-414f-a84a-80bb27cd247b/%CE%94+2118.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: practical (im)possibilities - Make it stand out Fragment of terracotta relief vase with scene of an Amazonomachy Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 2118. Photograph: George Vdokakis. Image used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/beeb221d-f236-452f-92f8-d37202a3d937/%CE%94+0090-03-%CE%9D%CE%A3.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: practical (im)possibilities - Make it stand out Attic black-figure skyphos with scene of an Amazon fighting Heracles Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 90. Photograph: Nikos Stournaras. Image used with permission. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/artifacts-in-manto-technical-im monthly 0.5 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/5f4528a9-c62c-46a7-9708-e1362a217606/%CE%94+0436-02-%CE%9D%CE%A3.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: technical (im)possibilities - Make it stand out Black-figure kylix (ca. 530 BCE). Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 436. Photograph: Nikos Stournaras. Image used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/fc1194c5-c7ae-4cde-8486-344be50366fc/Me%CC%80topa_del_temple_de_Zeus_d%27Oli%CC%81mpia_amb_representacio%CC%81_d%27He%CC%80racles_i_el_lleo%CC%81_de_Nemea_%28Museu_Arqueolo%CC%80gic_d%27Oli%CC%81mpia%29.jpeg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: technical (im)possibilities Metope from Olympia showing Heracles with the body of the Nemean Lion. ca. 470-457 BCE. Image from Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/30522d25-1d8c-4703-9105-254c803f5819/%CE%94+2606-01-%CE%9D%CE%A3.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: technical (im)possibilities - Make it stand out Attic black-figure amphora attributed to the Painter of Tarquinia RC 3984 with scene showing Heracles fighting the Nemean Lion. Dated to last quarter of the 6th c BCE. Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 2606. Photograph: Nikos Stournaras. Image used with permission. Captured in MANTO here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/49b2157c-e94d-42aa-b6b9-9d784c488ff8/out.jpg Blog - Artifacts in MANTO: technical (im)possibilities - Make it stand out Three views of an Attic black-figure lekythos attributed to the Emporion Paintern with a scene showing Heracles luring the Nemean Lion from its cave. ca. 480-460 BCE. Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, no. Δ 646. Photograph: Nikos Stournaras. Image used with permission. Captured in MANTO here. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/ancient-artifacts-in-manto monthly 0.5 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/494f7524-a1c7-4a22-8a6d-1fd6830686f4/2048px-Drawing_of_the_Franc%CC%A7ois_Vase_with_the_Marriage_of_Thetis_and_Peleus_from_The_Open_court_%281887%29_%2814780677894%29-white_balanced_rotated_slightly_resized.jpeg Blog - Ancient Artifacts in MANTO - Make it stand out 1887 drawing of the François Vase, a large volute krater ca. 570 BCE. It was found in 1766 in an Etruscan tomb in the necropolis of Fonte Rotella near Chiusi and named after its discoverer Alessandro François. The drawing depicts the frieze showing the procession of gods and goddesses at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. 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Theodoor van Thulden, 1633. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/my-manto-experience monthly 0.5 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/b79c3b4e-e9d4-4e4b-be1d-a6f39a6f8711/Kylix_Theseus_Aison_MNA_Inv11365_n1.jpg Blog - My MANTO experience - Make it stand out Tondo of the Aison Cup, showing the victory of Theseus over the Minotaur in the presence of Athena. From Salamanca Collection National Archaeological Museum, Madrid, Spain. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/the-mapping-of-pomponius-melas-chorographia monthly 0.5 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/bdb6f6c6-21d4-409a-9e48-7ba8693ede99/Screen+Shot+2023-05-29+at+10.37.39+am.jpg Blog - The Mapping of Pomponius Mela’s Chorographia - Make it stand out A screenshot of the CSV document uploaded to Recogito, showing the automatic matching using Pleiades ID https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/47d0003f-543d-4da1-ac9d-9cde50dde675/Screen+Shot+2023-05-29+at+10.38.31+am.jpg Blog - The Mapping of Pomponius Mela’s Chorographia - Make it stand out The mythical places and landmarks in Pomponius Mela mapped. You can access this map in Recogito here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/3e63bb4c-7b9b-4a7b-9a81-ac5e5418d3df/Screen+Shot+2023-05-29+at+10.37.20+am.jpg Blog - The Mapping of Pomponius Mela’s Chorographia - Make it stand out All locations in Pomponius Mela mapped. You can access this map in Recogito here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/dcdecc5d-9446-44de-bcd3-017ed33eefd9/karte_pomponius_mela_rotated.jpg Blog - The Mapping of Pomponius Mela’s Chorographia - Make it stand out Reconstruction of Pomponius Mela’s Map by Konrad Miller, 1898 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/my-experience-with-manto-and-other-linked-open-data-projects monthly 0.5 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1069991f-9438-43cf-9be0-eaa3b2916ed1/image1+-+Tm.jpg Blog - My Experience with MANTO and other Linked Open Data Projects - Make it stand out A typical search result for papyri using Trismegistos.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/9e98dbae-a468-4eeb-97cd-cbac51ed3fc7/image2+-+MANTO.jpg Blog - My Experience with MANTO and other Linked Open Data Projects - Make it stand out A typical search result for an ‘entity’ (a character, object, place or event from Greek myth) in MANTO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/49c7a18e-11ad-495e-8260-460e690e17ca/Header+and+thumbnail.jpg Blog - My Experience with MANTO and other Linked Open Data Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/interning-on-the-manto-myth-digitisation-project-the-importance-of-machine-readability monthly 0.5 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4406f03a-5768-4528-a546-d8ef5196ffb4/Yggdrasil.jpg Blog - Interning on the MANTO Myth Digitisation Project – the importance of machine readability - Make it stand out Tree of Life – An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil as described in the Icelandic Prose Edda by Oluf Olufen Bagge https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/interning-on-the-manto-myth-digitisation-project-my-experience monthly 0.5 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/069c44c7-1702-47e5-9b5f-5564dda0318b/trojan+war.jpeg Blog - Interning on the MANTO Myth Digitisation Project – My Experience - Make it stand out Sculpted neo-Attic sarcophagus representing the battle at the ships in the Trojan War, in the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, inv. 1246. Second quarter of the 3rd c. AD. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/documentation monthly 0.5 2023-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/35edd3e9-ae54-48c3-94cf-daa9758c2134/Capture.PNG Blog - Documentation - Make it stand out Page from MANTO’s Manual for Data Collection https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-macquarie monthly 0.5 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/c328756e-9b02-4cff-b091-97cec6cf12ff/MANTO+sphinx+head.png Blog - MANTO @ Macquarie - MANTO will be central to this research. The project now has a home at Macquarie’s Department of History and Archaeology. There I'm keen to keep expanding MANTO’s coverage of literary sources for myth, but also to branch out and capture the important mythic data that comes to us by way of material and visual artefacts — art, coins, epigraphy etc. In a couple of years I’ll be offering a couple of funded PhD places, and I’ll also be looking for some fractional post-docs as well. This coming semester I’m looking forward to taking on a new cohort of interns through Macquarie’s PACE programme. Sketch of Sphinx’ head, by Allina Podgurski, from a dish (c. 600 BCE) discovered at Kameiros, now in the Louvre (A308). https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/rationalising-myth-in-manto monthly 0.5 2023-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/3fbcb4c3-874d-4374-821c-aac4789c1b0e/600px-Theseus_Minotaur_BM_Vase_E84.jpg Blog - Rationalising myth in MANTO - Make it stand out Theseus dragging the Minotaur from the Labyrinth. Tondo of an Attic red-figured kylix, ca. 440-430 BC. Said to be from Vulci. British Museum GR 1850.3-2.3 (Cat. Vases E84) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/cce0ca0c-284d-44ce-8c2a-bbc60f412b17/433px-Jason_Pelias_Louvre_K127.jpg Blog - Rationalising myth in MANTO - Make it stand out Jason bringing Pelias the Golden Fleece; a winged victory prepares to crown him with a wreath. Side A from an Apulian red-figure calyx crater. Louvre Museum K127 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/calling-up-the-dead-translating-the-footnotes-to-book-11-of-the-odyssey monthly 0.5 2022-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a6c1fe0e-3b1a-458b-aab1-1a2c4b6c3877/Screen+Shot+2022-05-07+at+11.01.12+AM.png Blog - Calling Up the Dead: Translating the Footnotes to Book 11 of the Odyssey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/093301ad-88d9-49fa-bfdd-dce8b66b1586/Screen+Shot+2022-05-07+at+11.08.47+AM.png Blog - Calling Up the Dead: Translating the Footnotes to Book 11 of the Odyssey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/linked-open-data-the-basics monthly 0.5 2022-04-06 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/myths-that-live-in-ruins monthly 0.5 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/df140dc7-5be8-42fe-9dce-db94dcc9164d/1593379585469.jpg Blog - Myths that live in ruins - Make it stand out Part of Christchurch’s Residential Red Zone. Image: Peter Ball / Regenerate Christchurch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/e2bcede3-a35d-47be-8499-e85d79ed9806/Picture1.png Blog - Myths that live in ruins - There are 81 ruined cities in Pausanias’ Periegesis; 68 of these appear with the kinds of mythical connections which allow us to collect them in MANTO. These 68 cities appear in 245 ties. By contrast, the 316 functional cities in Pausanias appear in 2033 ties. Here, then, we see a quantitative difference: ruined cities attract less mythical material in Pausanias’ account (av. 3.6 ties per ruined city vrs av. 6.4 ties per functional city). Location of ruined cities in Pausanias https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/dd5f99cf-6e08-44d1-b0be-3b95bf4dcaee/Picture3.jpg Blog - Myths that live in ruins - “If you go on and turn to your right you come to the ruins of Tiryns. The people of Tiryns were removed by the Argives, who wished to increase Argos’ power by increasing its population. The hero Tiryns, from whom the city got its name, is said to be a son of Argos, son of Zeus. The wall, which is the only part of the ruins still remaining is a work of the Cyclopes made of unwrought stones, each stone being so big that a pair of mules could not move the smallest from its place to the slightest degree.” — Pausanias 2.25.8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4c5a49aa-ac27-4cc2-8672-128fa8d49b45/Picture4.jpg Blog - Myths that live in ruins - And this is typical. In fact, this is one of the few myths that attaches to a landmark in a ruined city. But when we go again to MANTO we realise how derivative the story that Pausanias gives here is, and how flat this trope of Cyclopean wall-builders is by his time. Building things in the Argolid is basically all the Cyclopes do, and their stories don’t seem to have changed since the time of the Argive defeat. Here, and at Mycenae, Pausanias is basically just repeating a standard literary ‘fact’ on location. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/fc2ae9a2-50b6-4352-9c33-2ef88ff5eb10/Picture2.png Blog - Myths that live in ruins - Note what’s missing here: In the first map above, there is a cluster of about two dozen ruined cities in Arcadia. These were abandoned in the fourth century and their populations moved to the new city of Megalopolis. None of them claimed to have a Homeric connection. (Their mythical significance was established in another way as we’ll see in a moment.) So if we take these out of the calculation, the percentage rises. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/heracleitos-grapples-with-unbelievable-stories monthly 0.5 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/595743fb-5dff-4897-8921-3c1d53fefcc8/circeod199gen.jpg Blog - Heracleitos grapples with unbelievable stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/palaiphatos-translation-on-scaife-viewer monthly 0.5 2021-11-17 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/making-a-homeric-queen monthly 0.5 2021-11-17 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/ithaca-bound-scott-smith-on-the-chimera monthly 0.5 2021-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1630396225936-3LFR7ASVX1UUZWKFVYXZ/Chimera_d%27arezzo%2C_fi%2C_04.jfif Blog - Ithaca bound: Scott Smith on the Chimera - Make it stand out The Chimera of Arezzo, an Etruscan bronze https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/about-mantos-icon monthly 0.5 2021-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1627736993400-RDRAI7VZ6BEVJTOI9I0M/IMG_1325.jpg Blog - About MANTO’s Icon - Dish from around 600 BCE, found in Kameiros, Rhodes in the 1800s. Now housed in the Louvre (accession number A308). Image taken by R. Scott Smith 1/25/17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1627737861089-WEH8CJO7UA0OZG248F0Y/mantologo3.png Blog - About MANTO’s Icon - An early sketch of one possible logo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1627737996462-H4V7DKI513PGKPF4WQ39/manto+logo+final.png Blog - About MANTO’s Icon - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/introducing-canopos monthly 0.5 2021-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1626922386322-3JNC9BWLAG8BW6NT43KH/T33.2Pasiphae.jpg Blog - Introducing Canopos - To start with, it is impossible for an animal of one kind to mate with one of another unless the womb and genitals are compatible. For it is not possible for a dog and an ape to mate with one another and produce offspring, nor a wolf and a hyena, nor an antelope and a deer (for the fact is that they are of different species). More to the point, I do not think that a bull had sex with a wooden cow: for all four-footed animals smell the genitals of an animal before mating and mount it afterwards. Nor would a woman be able to withstand being mounted by a bull, nor could she have carried a horned embryo. (2) https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/a-dataset-of-mythical-names-with-stable-uris monthly 0.5 2021-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1625062674304-36DYG2XP7JFWAW7J5EIR/Stable+URI+MANTO.jpg Blog - A dataset of mythical people with stable URIs - You can find the citation details, with canonical URL, at the bottom of each filecard in our interface. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/greek-literary-topographies-in-the-roman-imperial-world monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/a-half-dozen-ways-to-die-mythically monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1615971029645-9KIS41P09B0VUJBQEXJD/Heracles.PNG Blog - A half-dozen ways to die (in myth) A small sample of Heracles’ raw data https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1615971589759-O20NVP320740ME63H2T4/Penelope.PNG Blog - A half-dozen ways to die (in myth) Filecard for Penelope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1615971638672-XUPNPWJ5AEJGI1ETQ6MG/Scepter.PNG Blog - A half-dozen ways to die (in myth) Filecard for the Scepter of Agamemnon https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/pausanias-and-mythical-kinship-reckoning monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1602799076377-BGR1M1PI1GQJ922LW5FA/Picture1.jpg Blog - Pausanias and Mythical Kinship Reckoning Figure 1: A family tree of Arcadian heroes made using PowerPoint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1602799166067-3DC86SZ5LQ16QGFAC4HD/Picture2.jpg Blog - Pausanias and Mythical Kinship Reckoning Figure 2: The data collection process for MANTO. The three figures named Pelasgos are highlighted in red. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1602799226034-SZS9RZLB2QCHBZOJ21QH/Picture3.jpg Blog - Pausanias and Mythical Kinship Reckoning Figure 3: The data collection process for MANTO. The ties between Cecrops and Lycaon are highlighted in red. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/introducing-emthe-greek-myth-filesem monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/a-narrative-gazetteer-of-troy monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1594193163350-Z5QV0SPDH8U3TT7273O8/ME%2BMap.jpg Blog - A narrative gazetteer of Troy Middle Earth, mapped https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1594332526297-PU6FZ0ZGYNEFLCYBGC6R/Homers+Trojan+Theatre.JPG Blog - A narrative gazetteer of Troy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1594257196826-9DRAZGAYMHPUOJ0YKIJ7/Slide1.JPG Blog - A narrative gazetteer of Troy Representation of MANTO’s gazetteer of fictional Troy. Graphic: G. Hawes https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/the-ontology-of-mythical-entities-part-2 monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1592492474054-RLFB553AHZYR1RR2GQU1/Jason+and+Pelias.jpg Blog - The Ontology of Mythical Entities: Part 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1592492499544-07SBENLU4E9KIO5BBVSG/Image+6-18-20+at+10.01+AM.jpg Blog - The Ontology of Mythical Entities: Part 2 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/the-ontology-of-mythical-entities-part-1 monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/text-into-data-the-example-of-apollodoros-211-2-and-the-early-peloponnese monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1591322802088-QMLC3J0VMET6Q4Y6QXDY/Image+of+the+Peloponnese+from+Pleiades.JPG Blog - Text into data: Apollodoros 2.1.1-2 and the early Peloponnese - Pleiades URN 570577 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/user-testers-needed monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/data-collection-the-manto-method monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1588159298788-CGT96HMIX996PXVY9SPE/Page+from+the+Bible.JPG Blog - Data collection: the MANTO method A page from the list of interactions in MANTO’s Manual of data collection. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/building-a-web-of-myth monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1588144571064-RRKITMTIHDWSGQECRT5D/Mythic+network+featuring+Heracles+and+the+Hydra.jpg Blog - a web of myth A mythic network featuring Heracles’ killing of the Hydra. Graphic: Glen Goodwin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1587678943753-7NDGGDTIJTBT3COHJ6VW/Lernaean_Hydra_Getty_Villa_83.AE.346.jpg Blog - a web of myth https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/but-what-is-emmythem monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1586556859873-C7393AKE4VX81IQT4GU6/MANTO%2Bontology.jpg Blog - But what is</em> myth? The MANTO ontology. Graphic: Glen Goodwin. https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/a-new-mythography-for-our-digital-world monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1586218593559-XB6LPO8Y115QHC889T6K/MANTO%2Bphoto%2Bdesktop.jpg Blog - A new mythography for our digital world https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/why-manto monthly 0.5 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1585782007290-G71WBS69QP5Z056X91O3/Manto%2Bplaces.jpg Blog - Why ‘MANTO’? Places associated with Manto and her children. Map created using Recogito. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1585782176294-0CPGO055Y4BD9BVYIGSK/Manto_scan_title_footer.jpg Blog - Why ‘MANTO’? https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/category/Artifacts monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/category/PACE+INTERNS monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/category/The+Greek+Myth+Files monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/category/Inscriptions monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/category/Publication monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/category/NADAC monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/category/Canopos monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/category/MANTO monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/tag/Greek+myth monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/tag/names monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/tag/ontology monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/tag/PACE+interns monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/tag/artifacts monthly 0.5 https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/the-particular-parable-of-palamedes-polymetis monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/f3f6443d-eeda-4fa0-84ac-0e17e9358abb/Palamedes+Hyde.png The Greek Myth Files - The Particular Parable of Palamedes Polymetis - Make it stand out Image by Hyde Morrison, with quotation from Sophocles’ fragmentary play “Nauplios” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1c30fa3d-5972-45bb-bc03-04ada7dca55b/exekias-amphora-achilles-and-ajax-engaged-in-a-game-530.jpeg%21Large.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - The Particular Parable of Palamedes Polymetis - Make it stand out Achilles and Ajax son of Telamon play a board game in the interstices of the Trojan War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/b0fe0c10-9fbc-4300-9b17-1216ff1798a2/6276965_orig.jpg The Greek Myth Files - The Particular Parable of Palamedes Polymetis - Make it stand out Black figure on the left, red figure on the right—on opposite sides of the same vase, attributed to the Andocides’ painter (ca. 525 BC). Now housed in the MFA, Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/846547fd-6eb7-4542-bafa-1676ddd28ccb/Villa_Carlotta_-_Palamedes.jpg The Greek Myth Files - The Particular Parable of Palamedes Polymetis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-36-mustering-forces-at-aulis-or-the-sacrifice-of-iphigenia monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/8388e9c8-6deb-4947-9cb9-5beef0d4d61e/Screenshot+2026-03-04+at+7.59.13%E2%80%AFPM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 36: Mustering Forces at Aulis, or The Sacrifice of Iphigenia - Make it stand out A graphic showing most of the Greek towns and heroes that participated in the Trojan War, produced by UNH student Jack Vachon (2015) using GIS mapping technology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/6aa0a48a-b7b3-46f9-ae4d-4a38859ed849/Iphigeneia+Crater.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 36: Mustering Forces at Aulis, or The Sacrifice of Iphigenia - Make it stand out Volute krater vase from between 370 B.C. and 350 B.C. in Basilicata, Italy. This piece depicts the sacrifice of Iphigenia, with her being replaced with a doe by Artemis. Currently housed in the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4a2b015b-fe77-4b30-a3e2-88855cf11647/Wall_painting_-_sacrifice_of_Iphigenia_-_Pompeii_%28VI_8_5%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9112_-_01.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 36: Mustering Forces at Aulis, or The Sacrifice of Iphigenia - Make it stand out The sacrifice of Iphigenia in the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii (now in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples). To the left, Agamemnon, head covered in shame; Iphigenia carried off by attendants; Calchas, the priest, stands to the left. In the upper register, the hunting goddess Diana to the right watches Iphigenia, saved at the last minute, riding a deer. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-35-the-judgment-of-paris monthly 0.5 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/ab76820a-b194-4213-ac3f-c4b1d97697e9/Screenshot+2026-02-26+at+2.00.27%E2%80%AFPM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 35: The Judgment of Paris - Make it stand out Drawing of an ivory comb from Sparta, perhaps the earliest image of the judgment of Paris (Athens, National Museum 15368). Drawing by R. M. Dawkins (1929). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/d683c260-f080-4ca9-bd89-888add809250/Chigi_Painter_-_CVPAP_32_A_3_-_battle_of_phalanxes_-_chariots_and_riders_-_judgement_of_Paris_-_hunting_scenes_-_Roma_MNEVG_22679_-_19_%28cropped%29.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 35: The Judgment of Paris - Make it stand out The famous Chigi vase (640 BC) with what is almost certainly the judgment of the goddesses (named). Now at the Villa Giulia (inv. No. 22679) in Rome, which houses some of the most incredible Etruscan materials from antiquity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/c094b30e-def6-471e-95d1-ad178d8ac8c2/Painting_on_terracotta_panels_of_the_judgement_of_Paris_from_Cerveteri_%28Boccanera_tomb%29_-_London_BM_1889-0410-1_-_02-1.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 35: The Judgment of Paris - Make it stand out A wall painting from a tomb from Cerveteri (Italy) from around 550 BC (the Boccanera Tomb, now in the British Museum). The judgment of the goddesses is on the left. Can you tell which goddess is which??? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/f556c72a-d5a5-4ecb-817a-952d1d8d7b7a/P1170845_Louvre_jugement_de_P%C3%A2ris_Ma3443_rwk.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 35: The Judgment of Paris - Make it stand out A Roman-era mosaic from Antioch on the Orontes (first half 2nd century AD) showing the judgment—the goddesses here have attributes that clearly identify them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/e6b3fa8f-d034-487f-8ef9-60ff82ac1432/Fresco_-_Wall_Fragment_with_the_Judgment_of_Paris.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 35: The Judgment of Paris - Make it stand out A fresco from Pompeii (House of Jupiter), with Paris—dressed in eastern garb, Mercury with his caduceus, with Juno (Hera), Venus (Aphrodite) and Minerva (Athena) from left to right. Aphrodite, as in a number of accounts, is scantily clad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/77fb1908-adea-47a7-968b-99e73d5f014d/image031.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 35: The Judgment of Paris - Make it stand out From the House of Venus in Pompeii—the waterway may represent the Hellespont, which divides Asia from Europa. Can you tell which goddess is which? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/5a2079b9-ef52-4486-b79c-b7edf893bf98/n-6334-00-000022-web-hd.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 35: The Judgment of Paris - Make it stand out A painting by Joachim Wtewael, combining the judgment (left) with Eris’s throwing the apple into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis (right, back). 1615, now in the National Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/0c7c8065-6c06-4a48-b69b-1a978e324b87/Screenshot+2026-02-26+at+3.38.01%E2%80%AFPM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 35: The Judgment of Paris - Make it stand out A modern reinterpretation by the artist Charles Bell (1986), who was fond of using vintage toys (here using action figures) in new and innovative ways. Can you identify the American icon representing Aphrodite? And do you see a little bit of a Ken doll and a GI Joe? https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-24-alexander-paris-the-one-who-started-it-all monthly 0.5 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/10c026a1-a7ff-4cdf-8113-d9a0cc4c70a9/CLAS+401+S25+Iliad+22%2C+24.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 34: Alexander Paris, the One Who Started it All - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/cece49d7-278f-4616-910d-3c3b78ffb27b/Himeros+Paris.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 34: Alexander Paris, the One Who Started it All - Make it stand out In this red figure vase painting from around 430 BC, Himeros, one of Aphrodite’s children and the god of desire, stokes the flames of Paris’ passion prior to the prince’s famed wooing of Helen. (Image from Theoi.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/75f1de07-2771-46a5-ad96-12971623e41f/Paris+to+Sparta.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 34: Alexander Paris, the One Who Started it All - Make it stand out A red figure vase that is estimated to have been made between 410 BC and 400 BC. It depicts Paris preparing to leave for his journey to Sparta where he will encounter Helen. Aphrodite is there to send him off alongside the flying god of love, Eros, as well as her son Aeneas who will accompany Paris to Sparta. Note the very elaborate clothing worn by the eastern Paris—the Greeks saw them as a people enamored with luxury. (Image from Theoi.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/0c965d5a-01ab-4c08-8ffc-f7b8bd79bb82/Picture1.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 34: Alexander Paris, the One Who Started it All - Make it stand out A red figure vase from around 480 BC signed simply by ‘Douris’ illustrating the duel between Paris and Menelaus as seen in the third book of the Iliad. Aphrodite and another female goddess, most likely Artemis due to her wielding of the bow, are standing by in support of the Trojan. (Image from Theoi.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/49c1dbb6-42ce-4801-a271-f6fcd4709e75/Paris+1.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 34: Alexander Paris, the One Who Started it All - Make it stand out Paris holding a bow with an arrow dropping suspiciously towards Achilles heel. In between the two stands Apollo who, with an outstretched hand, seems to be divinely manipulating the arrow to its target. Vase from about 460 BC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/7568673f-bc37-43a7-88b2-68fe6cfb7929/deathofachilles_rumpf_chalkidischevasen_colorized-in-the-manner-of-the-inscriptions-painter.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 34: Alexander Paris, the One Who Started it All - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-33-trojan-myth monthly 0.5 2026-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/dd5e2c31-dd60-4c58-9916-241eaf725f83/CLAS+401+S25+Iliad+22%2C+24.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 33: Trojan Myth - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/523ff240-9eff-4598-bc83-de78009d2a6f/Map+GMF+33.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 33: Trojan Myth - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-32-helen-of-sparta-helen-of-troy monthly 0.5 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/da1b6054-0a65-423c-b685-6a9c5481caec/Slide1.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 32: Helen of Sparta, Helen of Troy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/e34b2cfb-44b4-4dab-a29c-386f0935ce9c/Slide1.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 32: Helen of Sparta, Helen of Troy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/e83a2ded-5cb0-4213-9730-fe8c895b6ac9/Screenshot+2025-12-27+at+7.37.47%E2%80%AFPM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 32: Helen of Sparta, Helen of Troy - Make it stand out With Zeus and Aphrodite in the register above, Zeus in the form of a swan seduces Leda (named) while Hypnos (Sleep) watched on from the right. From Apulia (Italy) around 330 BC, now in the Getty Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4e00e5ba-077b-4e29-a69b-df9f0315f8e2/Screenshot+2025-12-27+at+7.36.53%E2%80%AFPM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 32: Helen of Sparta, Helen of Troy - Make it stand out The egg from which Helen will emerge sits on an altar, with Leda and Tyndareos watching on the left, and the Dioscuri on the right. Note this complicates the genealogy found in many sources that Helen was born at the same time as the Dioscuri. The vase from around 410 BC and of unknown provenance is now housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-31-the-house-of-tantalos-or-the-family-of-agamemnon monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/22e91414-52df-40b9-8792-47fb4f30787c/Slide1.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 31: The House of Tantalos, or, the Family of Agamemnon - Make it stand out Family tree of Tantalus, son of Zeus, down to Agamemnon and his children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a3403068-dca1-4efb-8fb5-cf9908b86cb2/Slide1.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 31: The House of Tantalos, or, the Family of Agamemnon - Make it stand out Map of places mentioned in the episode. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/e4d34a46-cfa3-4aeb-8d0d-064def21cef5/sisyphus-ixion-and-tantalus-6370.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 31: The House of Tantalos, or, the Family of Agamemnon - Make it stand out Sisyphus on left (trying to carry the rock over the ridge, Ixion bound to the flaming wheel, and Tantalus trying to get a drink of water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/84d3be21-925c-4a6c-9dbb-809becfac4ce/Danaids.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 31: The House of Tantalos, or, the Family of Agamemnon - Make it stand out Downloaded years ago from the Beazley Archive of ancient Greek pottery (Munich 1493). The daughters of Danaus (the Danaids) are paired alongside Sisyphus. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/the-trojan-war-an-introduction monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/69633066-7948-49bb-b707-763f553a9d09/Slide1.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 30: The Trojan War, An Introduction - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/66700280-66bc-4fe6-97b9-489760acab19/Andromeda%2C_II-III_secolo_dc._ca.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 30: The Trojan War, An Introduction - Make it stand out Hesione set out for a sea monster to consume, saved by Heracles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4eb80213-80ab-473e-9097-1ed7439b036b/Villa_Di_Tiberio_plan.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 30: The Trojan War, An Introduction - Make it stand out The seaside villa of Tiberius. The round area inside the cave mouth is where the sculptures were found. The cave faced out into the sea as you can see in the next picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/0edd447d-780f-477d-87e3-2f22b72d3164/shutterstock-721412464-2048x1294.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 30: The Trojan War, An Introduction - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/36a1f3b1-726d-46b0-b61f-232d1af6ae96/181a754f-3528-4e5a-8e27-8a646f5f.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 30: The Trojan War, An Introduction - Make it stand out Sculpture locations: Zeus abducting Trojan Ganymedes at top, Odysseus blinding Polyphemus in the back right, Scylla destroying Odysseus’ men in the center, the so-called Pasquino group (showing either Menelaus carrying body of Patroclus or Ajax carrying Achilles) to the left, and Odysseus and Diomedes stealing the Palladion from Troy on the right. Hesione would surely have been set into the rock face above the cave as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/bc79382b-0268-4081-ab4c-09a08d1d7f0a/Berlin_-_Pergamonmuseum_-_Altar_01.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 30: The Trojan War, An Introduction - Make it stand out The Great Altar of Pergamon (as reconstructed in Berlin). The lower sculptural program shows the Olympian and other gods fending off an attack of the Giants (children of Gaia). The upper reliefs about Telephos are in a separate location. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/aec3551b-83bb-4a8e-8268-9e39aae5b4e1/Telephos+reliefs.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 30: The Trojan War, An Introduction - Make it stand out The Telephos reliefs at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin. The central panel (above and right of the smaller display in front) shows Teuthras, the king of Mysia, finding Auge deserted on the shore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a80dbf93-831f-43e3-bfff-e7afff16c72c/Relief_of_Telephus.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 30: The Trojan War, An Introduction - Make it stand out Achilles scraping the rust from the spearpoint to cure Telephos (on right). https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/aristaeus-the-god-of-bees-and-orpheus-and-eurydice monthly 0.5 2025-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/f2fe313e-c367-432e-befd-ffe06f0c3e15/Slide1.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - Aristaeus, the God of Bees (and Orpheus and Eurydice) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/644badb4-9072-4272-bd2b-dbd1165040af/ephesossilvertetradrachm.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Aristaeus, the God of Bees (and Orpheus and Eurydice) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/ajax-the-greater-greatness-and-depression monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/d289f9c4-c646-40c5-9b43-7a30cb3e2cd8/Ajax+Family+Tree+Map.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/5c3343a1-e53d-4ce2-809c-206baf5fa812/exekias-amphora-achilles-and-ajax-engaged-in-a-game-530.jpeg%21Large.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Ajax and Achilles playing a game. Black-figure vase by Exekias, around 530 BC, now housed in the Vatican Museum. Similar version by other painters found in other museums, such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/9ea9ff4e-aaf5-42f2-973e-aaa1f49b4a6b/DeathOfAchilles_Rumpf_ChalkidischeVasen_colorized_in_the_manner_of_the_inscriptions_painter.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Ajax (spelled in Greek AIAS) stands to the left over Achilles’ body, killing Glaukos. Athena stands to the left of Ajax, currently assisting Ajax (but later will favor Odysseus over him). To the right of Glaukos is Paris, who had delivered the killing blow (to the foot? or the side?) to Achilles. Aineias, later founder of the Roman people, is to Paris’ right. Color replica by Kathleen Vail of a black-and-white drawing of a now lost (!) Chalcidian vase from around 540 BC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/9aca5af8-331e-43a6-a675-42e64586c63c/The_Suicide_of_Ajax.svg_1280-1024x771.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out An illustration (by Wikipedia artist Perhelion) of Suicide of Ajax on the so-called Eurytios Crater, found in a tomb in Cerveteri (Italy) and dating from around 600 BC. The three names (in Corinthian script) are “Diomedes” (left), “Odysseus” (right), and Ae-was or Aias (below). Probably the earliest depiction of the death. Now in the Louvre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/fc13ffbf-6e63-479c-8d22-365f5bf2eb8f/Cavalcade_Painter_-_CVPAP_197_A_2_-_suicide_of_Ajax_-_riders_-_animal_frieze_-_Basel_ASuSL_BS_1404_-_05.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Ajax’s suicide as found on a Corinthian vase from around 580 BC. Greek heroes (like Odysseus, Diomedes, Teucros and other) surround the dead hero, who is far larger than the living figures—emphasizing Ajax’s size and strength. Now housed in the Basel Antikenmuseum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/ada0fd63-8a4e-4f3c-9223-ecd972544548/Paestum_metope_ajax-1.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out An unfinished metope from the Temple of Hera at Foce del Sele (550–540 BC), now in the museum of Paestum (Italy). Was the sculpture to be further carved and rounded out? Was it meant to be painted? Was the temple unfinished? Ajax has just started falling on his sword. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4c87e9bc-3499-466e-b3ad-416971a374c3/Screenshot+2025-08-09+at+12.03.24%E2%80%AFPM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Terracotta sculpture on an altar, perhaps from the city of Gela (Sicily), around 530 BC, now housed in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/930f5d15-5aa9-4280-89fa-1c4f6ac64e19/Attic_red-figure_kylix_by_Brygos_Painter%2C_tondo_-_Getty_Museum_%2886.AE.286%29.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Tecmessa, Ajax’s concubine in Troy, places a shroud over the dead Ajax, impaled in the back by the sword. Tecmessa will feature heavily in the (much later) play by Sophocles, Ajax. (The Brygos Painter, ca. 490 BC, housed in the Getty Museum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/58c955c3-291b-4ede-8a19-72186ca8c45e/mid_GAA10018.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Ajax commiting suicide, here showing the sword piercing underneath the armpit and emerging from his left shoulder, perhaps hinting at the tradition that Ajax became invunlerable except for his armpit when Heracles threw his lion skin over him when he was an infant. Early 4th century Etruscan-made krater from Etruria (Italy), now in the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/89acf1c4-ad78-4308-84f8-700e20dd6a5d/1200px-Exekias_Suicide_d_Ajax_01.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Ajax plants the sword in preparation of his suicide, a vase painted by Exekias, from around 530 BC, now housed in the Chateau-Musée Boulogne-sur-Mer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/4bc7d2fe-d659-42ad-b912-1d7332dca612/Screenshot+2025-08-09+at+1.17.43%E2%80%AFPM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 28: Ajax the Greater: Greatness and Depression - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-27-medousa-and-the-gorgons monthly 0.5 2024-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/6da11c22-27c5-4d5a-b2df-3ec672581291/Medusa_head_by_Gianlorenzo_Bernini_in_Musei_capitolini.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons - Make it stand out Bernini’s virtuoso depiction of Medusa transforming from young woman to the serpent-monster we all know (executed around 1650, now housed in the Capitoline Museum in Rome). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a4de3097-17b1-4d13-8c10-caac23bd4563/DP233549.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons - Make it stand out Horrifying! Don’t come near! A gorgoneion from Tarentum in southern Italy now housed in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (about 540 BC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/00dede83-b9b0-4ebb-8d5d-f3687d9c9ede/Screenshot+2024-12-17+at+2.06.41+PM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons - Make it stand out Athena wearing the aigis (protective cloak) featuring the gorgon head. The aigis, like later Medusa, is often seen as featuring serpents and is likewise used to scare off people. See Apollodorus 3.12.3, “The story told about the Palladium is as follows. They say that when Athena was born she was brought up by Triton, who had a daughter Pallas; and that both girls practised the arts of war, but that once on a time they fell out; and when Pallas was about to strike a blow, Zeus in fear interposed the aegis, and Pallas, being startled, looked up, and so fell wounded by Athena. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/6be579cf-2842-486d-bea0-b3a0e49b0d99/Screenshot+2024-12-17+at+10.56.23+AM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons - Make it stand out Perseus, looking away, prepared to decapitate the gorgon, who is represented as a centaur! Perseus is identified with the hat, bag, and emerging wings on the sandals. (Pithos, around 650 BC, currently in the Louvre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/dfce5742-2dcb-4f7a-8cb8-9de4e451486b/49_0.JPG The Greek Myth Files - Episode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons - Make it stand out Perseus, supported by the goddess Athena on the left, moves to behead the gorgon, who holds the flying horse Pegasos, which normally emerges from her neck after Perseus decapitates her (metope from Temple C in Selinunte (Sicily), now in the National Archaeological Museum in Palermo, around 520 BC). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/3574dc40-7c12-4782-9722-2c7366466692/Close_up_of_Gorgon_at_the_pediment_of_Artemis_temple_in_Corfu.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons - Make it stand out Image of the gorgon, with serpents around waist as belt (compare the account in the Hesiodic Shield of Achilles) on the pediment of the Temple of Artemis in Corcyra (modern Corfu, housed in the archaeological museum on the island, around 580 BC). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/256efcf3-be83-4a70-b36f-598e1239ef83/main-image.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons - Make it stand out Attic red-figure vase showing Perseus, supported by Athena to the left, approaching a very un-gorgon-like gorgon (housed in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, about 450 BC). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/bd83f274-a728-4de0-b644-10d0e15fea8d/Untitled_Artwork.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 27: Medousa and the Gorgons - Make it stand out The Transformation of Medusa by Ben Lesser-Brunori. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-26-atlas-man-or-mountain monthly 0.5 2024-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/81a73da2-f22b-4baf-97ca-9d810a9c77fa/1200px-New_York_City%2C_May_2014_-_033.JPG The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out An Art Deco Atlas holding up the heavens: you can make out the zodiac signs on the edges and the wave of the Atlantic Ocean around his thigh. Artists Lee Lawrie and Rene Paul Chambellan. It was installed in 1937. (Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/7d0f153d-0511-414e-b7fa-c657af586b2c/Postcard+Atlas+Hotel.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a87f5270-f6ff-4f39-99ab-5ebc464fbec2/Olympia_Metopes._VIII._Herakles%E2%80%99_Eleventh_Labor._Atlas_and_the_Apples_of_Hesperides.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/645cd399-ddd1-4b4e-afd9-ad0b43e21748/Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n01.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Farnese Heracles in the Naples Archaeological Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/986cbd0d-a385-4b92-8ec1-210c9707fb8c/Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n06-1.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/d416abf0-330c-414c-85e6-8b70aca106fd/Atlas_%28Farnese_Globe%29.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/05d3a310-0bcd-4305-8b2a-034dbd343db3/Mercator_Atlas_1595_page_5_main_frontispiece.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/dba4612f-3df9-4979-9f73-d761d381e2e4/Atlas-Mountains.jpg.gif The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/163c59b5-c13a-4f42-98e5-f9107def11d3/75298499-12503971-Where_the_earthquake_struck_This_map_reveals_the_epicentre_of_th-a-35_1694443873325.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/f3d77e35-6666-493f-a8c1-7fc440d291d7/Atlas.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 26: Atlas, Man or Mountain? - Make it stand out Original by Beatrice Mattison https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-25-niobe monthly 0.5 2023-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/c0e5f576-01fc-4762-8c3b-cd98417a9393/Screenshot+2023-09-23+at+1.27.16+PM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 25: Niobe - Make it stand out Location of Mt. Sipylos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/004bbeef-7c23-4be3-8c3a-e0f8b1d51847/A%C4%9Flayan_Kaya%2C_Spil_Da%C4%9F%C4%B1.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 25: Niobe - Make it stand out Rock-face of Niobe in Mt. Sipylos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/7db02346-303c-464d-b573-7c1cf41a2b0b/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain_overlay_2.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 25: Niobe - Make it stand out The Old Man in the Mountain (Wikipedia) before the collapse and now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/f7bf1bca-cf4e-455c-b2f0-4cb042b14986/1280px-Niobid_Krater_-_Niobid_massacre.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 25: Niobe - Make it stand out The “Niobid” painter, 5th c. BCE, housed in the Louvre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/19e27039-e29a-4b71-8299-7210c1bf1a65/800px-Niobid_Sallustiani_Massimo_Inv72274.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 25: Niobe - Make it stand out The Dying Niobid in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/81216889-4fef-4865-99ef-c9bfb43dfc21/Niobe+Mattison.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 25: Niobe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-24-daphne monthly 0.5 2023-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/ea084769-9ba2-4efe-aa4a-2d462cef3c3e/Apollo_and_Daphne_%28Bernini%29_%28cropped%29.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 24: Daphne - Make it stand out Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (1620s) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/a5531c46-a73e-4c89-9695-b768943d47c0/tumblr_5c539bbbeff22f934ddacc91e622da14_914996ee_500.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 24: Daphne - Make it stand out Close-up of Apollo’s hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/34ebf8b5-1218-4b66-bec6-cb3f77b0473d/MosaicDaphneApolloSm.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 24: Daphne - Make it stand out Daphne turning into a laurel tree to escape the clutches of Apollo (in Princeton Art Museum). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1ea8d60c-008f-49d7-aac6-d2141650d26d/Daphne+in+Myth.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 24: Daphne - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/63c76254-9d54-4a3f-b6a9-7b18e9ccfaaf/Dapnhe.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 24: Daphne - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-23-the-python monthly 0.5 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/b2f6485a-26e9-42b4-b70f-e02853cc4f15/Delfi_Apollons_tempel.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 23: The Python - Make it stand out Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Image from Wikipedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/37e68657-ed8b-4798-a3a0-a95e16fba385/Omphalos_museum.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 23: The Python - Make it stand out The omphalos in the Delphi Museum. Image from Wikipedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/38692275-fb41-44da-98e0-086c006d01ae/Fresco_Apollo_kitharoidos_Palatino_Inv379982.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 23: The Python - Make it stand out Apollo Citharoedus, wall painting near the “House of Augustus” now in the Palatine Antiquarium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/540cf44c-0c5f-4e8d-a0b5-340d78ec9c49/1647277859789_BookScanCenter%7E2.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 23: The Python - Make it stand out Apollo aims his arrow at the towering Python at Delphi. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-21-typhoios-illuyankas-and-hittites-oh-my monthly 0.5 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/d47da0c0-f24d-4665-9127-941e873d13ac/Zeus_Typhon_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_596.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 21: Typhoios, Illuyankas and Hittites, Oh My! - Make it stand out Zeus, wearing the aegis and brandishing his thunderbolt, faces off against Typhoios, who sports wings and serpent’s coils for legs. From a Chalcidian hydria (water vessel) about 530 BCE. Image from Wikipedia (in public domain). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/9206bb00-014f-4a73-94ef-ff58ecd0751f/M10.2Typhon.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 21: Typhoios, Illuyankas and Hittites, Oh My! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/e908c941-8656-4bc9-988a-d6c7aa92968f/Typhon-Zeus-Image.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 21: Typhoios, Illuyankas and Hittites, Oh My! - Make it stand out The cosmically gargantuan Typhoios being thunderbolted by Zeus, by Maggie Melendez. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-22-giants-in-greek-myth monthly 0.5 2022-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/f00c97e3-c042-411d-8edb-ca74af86be03/Pergamonmuseum_-_Antikensammlung_-_Pergamonaltar_13.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 22: Giants in Greek Myth - Make it stand out Gaia arises from the ground to watch Athena, goddess of war, manhandle a Giant, marked by serpentine legs. The goddess Nike (Victory) is present, emphasizing the Olympians’ victory over their primeval foes (Images from Wikipedia). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/acfcab24-2191-4b82-956e-9600987c6c6c/Pergamonmuseum_-_Antikensammlung_-_Pergamonaltar_02-03.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 22: Giants in Greek Myth - Make it stand out Go, pooches, go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/2430a71c-119b-4ecc-884f-745ddd9eb01e/1920px-Pergamonmuseum_-_Antikensammlung_-_Pergamonaltar_22.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 22: Giants in Greek Myth - Make it stand out The panel on the left is heavily reconstructed, but the poor Giants did not stand a chance against the fated domination of the Olympian gods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/86207ed9-b6bb-4376-a167-077e7bc6261b/Pergamon_Museum_Berlin_hm.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 22: Giants in Greek Myth - Make it stand out The wide view of the whole. In its original state, it must have been a marvelous sight to visitors—one that promoted the power of the city of Pergamon and its kings. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-20-monsters-a-first-look monthly 0.5 2022-01-01 https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/z94cp85fmjcq5n1la99leqk1rf2r6z monthly 0.5 2021-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1635390852461-YBHUKOQOY79VKDG1DVYD/1991.1_o10.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 19: Medeia’s Last Act - Make it stand out A beautiful red-figured vase depicting the end of Euripides’ Medea, which Medea, dressed in eastern garb, flees on a chariot given to her by her grandfather, Helios. Housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art—go visit their great interactive website to get crystal-clear view of the action! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1635391005426-EZOLMCO2AHN2AMAQ434D/Medea_-_Casa_dei_Dioscuri.JPG The Greek Myth Files - Episode 19: Medeia’s Last Act - Make it stand out A fantastic wall-painting in the Casa dei Dioscuri (House of the Dioscuri) in Pompeii, where Medea is at the crucial moment: will she or won’t she kill her kids by Jason to exact revenge? The boys’ paedagogus or caretaker is in the doorway looking on. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-18-the-argonauts-voyage-home monthly 0.5 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1629502507871-8YZ4FYMG29WSGN5OX8J7/GMF+18+Map.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 18: The Argonauts’ Voyage Home - Make it stand out The route the Argonauts took to get back to Iolcos according to Apollonius’ Argonaut Adventure. His version takes into account the current conception of geography while combining two earlier versions, one that took the Argonauts home by a northerly route along Oceanos (conceived of as a giant river encircling the known lands), another by a southerly route. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1630322448538-H9AUUGIYGRZS3OX052IS/medea+and+circe.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 18: The Argonauts’ Voyage Home - Make it stand out After purifying her, Circe tells Medeia she must leave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1629502980310-8PDX9Y3CYIL44AFOUU0Z/Vase_de_Talos_%C3%A0_Ruvo_di_Puglia.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 18: The Argonauts’ Voyage Home - Make it stand out Medeia (left), dressed in exotic eastern dress (the Greeks thought easterners were overly concerned with luxurious dress), casts a spell on Talos, who is surrounded by two Argonauts, the twins Polydeuces and Castor. For the whole vase, visit the Beazley Archives here. Image from Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1629503750402-7OLGSM1INQWQGJYEVJ7I/deefa86c4abe92dea0a73ef9c8e5efdd.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 18: The Argonauts’ Voyage Home - Make it stand out Line drawing of a vase, partly damaged, in the British Museum (British Museum, London, 1837,0609.62). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1629503920444-66AXKG3MPJ75YFZ8PLFK/preview_00481000_001.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 18: The Argonauts’ Voyage Home - Make it stand out Medeia rejuvenates ram to prove to Jason that she has the goods to do so? https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/jason-gets-the-golden-fleecewith-a-bit-of-help monthly 0.5 2021-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1624553592690-CGL0S56K67RGE6V3XVB0/GMF+17+Map.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 17: Jason Gets the Golden Fleece…with a Bit of Help - Make it stand out Stops Argonauts Make from Bosporos to Colchis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1624557823586-ZG79627CIZZG9QW0TL2I/GMF+17.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 17: Jason Gets the Golden Fleece…with a Bit of Help - Make it stand out Genealogical Chart for Episode 17: Jason Gets the Golden Fleece https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1624558120346-3CUCBAKJZ1JLJIDSF3VI/main-image-1.jpeg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 17: Jason Gets the Golden Fleece…with a Bit of Help - Make it stand out Vase attributed to the Orchard Painter (NY Metropolitan Museum of Art) depicting Jason successfully obtaining the Fleece—where is Medeia? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1624557954724-X97WPWTPOSKFWVTQOLDU/Douris_cup_Jason_Vatican_16545.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 17: Jason Gets the Golden Fleece…with a Bit of Help - Make it stand out Douris Cup (Vatican Museums) of an otherwise unattested version of the story: Jason (identified by his name under his hair) hangs from the serpent’s mouth—is he being swallowed or disgorged? https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-16-the-voyage-begins monthly 0.5 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1621856907800-DPTWMB6G43JOCP8UL9DD/GMF+16+First+Leg.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 16: The Voyage Begins - Make it stand out The Argonauts’ Journey: The First Leg. Note how ancient seafarers desires to keep land in view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1621857073302-XOFWUUIAJJMFL53VHA2J/GMF+16+Map+2.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 16: The Voyage Begins - Make it stand out The events that take place in the Propontis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1621857504645-W2JV9X2CVI9RU8MAXWRN/Harpies.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 16: The Voyage Begins - Make it stand out The Harpies (“The Snatchers”) descend on blind Phineus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1630322620539-4NVT3X0CPC5BHLASGR8G/harpies.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 16: The Voyage Begins - Make it stand out A modern adaptation by our student artist Allina Podgurski! https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/gmf-special-edition-euripides-hecuba monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1619027592647-DW8IJHTK9ZVLO4SFOOYF/event+header.jpg The Greek Myth Files - GMF Special Edition: Euripides’ Hecuba Image created by Jamie Clavet and used with permission (thanks, Jamie!). https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-15-the-argo-and-the-argonauts monthly 0.5 2021-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1618569196664-WKVIAQI3JXXC1L5B1YUJ/GMF+15+Map.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 15: The Argo and the Argonauts Map of the places mentioned in the podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1618569249033-BAJIZU01NQQPRRSWA1F6/GMF+15+List+of+Argonauts.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 15: The Argo and the Argonauts List of Argonauts (one of many) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1618569524155-ECYCTOVGOZ87RG5R18JZ/Screen+Shot+2021-04-16+at+6.37.38+AM.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 15: The Argo and the Argonauts Lists of Argonauts in Apollonius Rhodius (3rd c. BCE, wrote in Greek) and Valerius Flaccus (1st c. CE, wrote in Latin). Note that the later author includes heroes from the northern reaches, while Apollonius does not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1618569791893-0AC9SYKFKSWSOHGKF8JF/DP153296.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 15: The Argo and the Argonauts Image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in public domain). Vase is likely from 470–460 BCE, roughly contemporary with the Pindar poem mentioned in the podcast. Jason, with the help of the goddess Athena (center), reaches for the Golden Fleece while an Argonauts stands ready to board the Argo. The stern has a woman’s head, which could either be a figurehead decoration or perhaps an artistic representation of the prophetic plank installed by Athena on the ship that had the power of speech. https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-14-the-man-with-one-sandal monthly 0.5 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1615397633020-0G9IYDY9D8JXBK34HCCR/Jason+and+Pelias.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 14: The Man with One Sandal Wall Painting from the House of Jason (Casa di Giasone) in Pompeii. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1615397891944-Z0N7LIRTJPIKJ0VSZFD0/GMF+14+Genealogies.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 14: The Man with One Sandal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1616705770410-05M7F6MMA9GKJ2AFA1GK/jason+one+sandal.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 14: The Man with One Sandal Original Artwork by Allina Podgurski https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-13-the-golden-fleece monthly 0.5 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1614220297048-KCQR6CPV7MFUEQW0GUO5/Golden+Fleece.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 13: The Golden Fleece Locations in the episode https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1614220449932-ID8Z6205L8ZZ2W3DSIAU/GMF+13+Genealogies.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 13: The Golden Fleece https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1614220602273-JQL9GPE2I83ZM6FU0ODG/golden+fleece.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 13: The Golden Fleece https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/6m9lb6r94g9t2kp9qbv9sx0pvq42h7 monthly 0.5 2021-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1613047888213-3KQUKXGK73H7RAUS47IZ/Amazons+MAP+GMF.jpg The Greek Myth Files - Episode 12: Wonder Woman and Amazons Map of the Black Sea where the Amazons are said to have been located. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1613048308025-JRMEHQ4O20U2YTGZKANI/amazonwonderwoman.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 12: Wonder Woman and Amazons https://www.manto-myth.org/gmf/episode-11-the-olympian-gods monthly 0.5 2021-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1611251305423-1XWC34PUNWZBVNPN3TTA/GMF+11+Map.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 11: The Olympian Gods Locations mentioned in the episode. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1611251504150-FZ5BDPMP2G35B8HV22HI/GMF+11+List+of+Gods.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 11: The Olympian Gods List of Greek gods and their Roman equivalents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e8189e975b8de5d6147ef4b/1611333014979-XIXIPRA8PN2M9F0HNNPU/apollo.png The Greek Myth Files - Episode 11: The Olympian Gods The god Apollo—can you spot allusions to myths associated with him? 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