MANTO is a dynamic digital portal of Greek myth.

It allows anyone to access, explore, and understand a storytelling tradition that extends over 2500 years.

MANTO provides authoritative data for researchers that will make big questions about the dynamics of myth answerable at unprecedented scale.

MANTO currently has data from these ancient texts:

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes

Apollodoros, Library and Epitome

Bacchylides, Odes, Dithyrambs, fragments

Callimachus, Aetia, Hymns, Iambs, lyric fragments

Diodoros, bks 6-8

Dionysios, Periegesis

D-Scholia to the Iliad

Epic fragments (Oedipodia, Thebaid, Epigonoi, Alcmaionid, Cypria, Aithiopis, Little Iliad, Sack of Troy, Nostoi, Telegony, Heracleia, Theseis, Theogony, Corinthaica, Naupactica, Phoronis etc)

Euripides, Alcestis, Cyclops, Hippolytos, Medeia, Phoinician Women, Suppliant Women, Trojan Women

Hesiod (and Hesiodic corpus), Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women), Shield of Heracles, Theogony, Works & Days and fragments

Homer, Iliad and Odyssey

the Homeric Hymns

Lindos Chronicle

Lucian

Lycophron, Alexandra

Lyric fragments (Myrtis, Corinna, Timocreon, Lamprocles, Ion of Chios etc)

Pausanias, Periegesis

Ovid, Amores

Peri Apiston treatises (Palaiphatos, Heraclitus, Anonymous Excerpta Vaticana)

Pindar, Odes and fragments

Pomponius Mela, Chorographia

Plutarch, Life of Theseus

Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers

Strabo, Geography

Vergil, Eclogues, Georgics

…with more to come

MANTO has worked with these collections and projects to capture data from artifacts:

Auckland University Classics Collection

Auckland War Memorial Museum/ Tāmaki Paenga Hira

P&A Canellopoulos Museum, Athens

Classics Museum, Australian National University

Classics Museum, Victoria University of Wellington

International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)

John Elliott Classics Museum, University of Tasmania

Macquarie University History Museum

Monash Centre for Ancient Cultures

The National Gallery of Victoria

Nicholson Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney

Open Context

Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP)

Queensland Museum Network

RD Milns Museum, University of Queensland

Te Papa Tongarewa / Museum of New Zealand

Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, University of Canterbury

Tūhura Otago Museum

…with more to come

Using MANTO

In this video Scott Smith takes you though the basics of using MANTO’s interface to explore the world of Greek myth.

For a longer video that describes the full data collection process, go here.

There’s a lot more information about this project and its progress in our blog.

Documentation, in the form of our Manual of Data Collection, can be found here.

 

This is a collaborative project

It is co-directed by Greta Hawes and Scott Smith

 

We are grateful for the funding and support we have received from:

The University of New Hampshire: Center for the Humanities and Geospatial Services Center; the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies

Macquarie University: DataX

Australian National University: Centre for Digital Humanities Research; Classics Endowment Fund; College of Arts and Social Sciences; Research School of Humanities and the Arts; and School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics.

Greta Hawes’ work on the project in the period 2017-21 was supported by an Australian Research Council DECRA Award; her work in the period 2023-30 is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.

We gratefully acknowledge the hard work and enthusiasm of MANTO’s data collectors:

Artifacts: Melissa Applin, Hallie Burke, Anika Campbell, Charne Combrink, Ewan Coopey, Caitlin Hanich, Greta Hawes, Corey Hynds, Jessica McKenzie, Emily Mifsud, Eleanor Platt, Lisa Rheinberger, Tiara Russo, Jade Wallace

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, Seven against Thebes: Melina Ryan, Scott Smith

Antoninus Liberalis: Samuel Boulton, Percy Carson, Paul Dimitri, Karter Mingze Hanley, Tessa Marinello, Abigail Michaels, Autumn Nippert, Morgan Twombly, David Wilson, Ivy Young

Apollodoros, Library and Epitome: Louis Becker, Tiana Blazevic, Glen Goodwin, Rod Harvey, Greta Hawes, Tate Jenetsky, Liam Maldoni, Charles McIntosh, Elizabeth Minchin, Felicity O'Neil, Daniel Prestipino, Rosie Selth, Philip Wager

Apollonios, Argonautica: Jack Anderson, Audrey Coleman, Jake Compagna, Maggie Joyce, Jessica Roberts, Ari Toumpas, Thomas Vachon, Jack Wirth

Bacchylides: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Callimachus: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Diodoros: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth, Scott Smith

Dionysios, Periegesis: Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

D-Scholia, Iliad: Michael Ampe, Samuel Boulton, Karter Hanley, Taylor Italia, Jillian Jezior, Noah Mello, Benjamin Menard, Abigail Michaels, Georgina Ramadanovic, Enzo Reyes, Jillienne Robinson-Warren, Sofia Sylvestri, Morgan Twombly, David Wilson, Joy Woolley

Epic fragments: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Euripides, Alcestis, Hippolytus, Medea, Phoenician Women: Melina Ryan, Scott Smith

Euripides, Cyclops, Suppliant Women, Trojan Women: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Hesiod, Theogony and Works & Days: Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Hesiod, Ehoiai, Shield of Heracles, and other fragments Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Homer, Iliad: Glen Goodwin, Rod Harvey, Greta Hawes, Tate Jenetsky, Liam Maldoni, Elizabeth Minchin, James O’Maley, Daniel Prestipino, Rosie Selth, Philip Wager.

Homer, Odyssey: Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Homeric Hymns: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth, Ari Toumpas

Hyginus, Fabulae: Rosie Selth

Lindos Chronicle: Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, Tate Jenetsky, Liam Maldoni, Daniel Prestipino, Rosie Selth, Philip Wager

Lucian: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Lycophron, Alexandra: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Lyric fragments: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Ovid, Amores: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Ovid, Ibis: Darcy Krasne

Ovid, Metamorphoses: Georgina Ramadanovic, Scott Smith

Pausanias, Periegesis: Kennis Barker, Anika Campbell, Audrey Coleman, Glen Goodwin, Greta Hawes, James O’Maley, Eleanor Platt, Rosie Selth, Scott Smith, Ari Toumpas

Peri Apiston treatises: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Pindar: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Plutarch, Life of Theseus: Greta Hawes, Scott Smith, Ari Toumpas

Pomponius Mela: Jarrod Ballesty, Greta Hawes, Gabriel Jower, Ryan Merlino, Tiana Munro, Ben Payne, Caitlin Shanahan

Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers: Greta Hawes, Rosie Selth

Servius, Scholia to Vergil: Jack Wirth

Sophocles, Aias and Electra: Melina Ryan, Scott Smith

Strabo: Jarrod Ballesty, Greta Hawes, Gabriel Jower, Ryan Merlino, Henry Muhlena, Tiana Munro, Lee Patterson, Ben Payne, Rosie Selth, Caitlin Shanahan, Scott Smith

Vergil, Eclogues and Georgics: Rosemary Selth