Museum of Greek and Roman Mythology, Su '24

CLAS 430 Summer 2024

The Museum of Greek and Roman Mythology is a digital instantiation of a museum in the original sense of a place for the Muses and the arts they inspire. Additionally, it is a museum in the sense exemplified by the Museum of Alexandria: a place for scholars to engage in research.

This museum consists of both a collection of media related to Greek and Roman myth and a collection of scholarship on these mythological media produced by the students of Classics 430.

Visitors to the museum are encouraged to take a tour through the places and spaces of Greco-Roman myth and explore their divine and mortal inhabitants through the collections of texts and resources.

This image is a photograph of a 5th c. BC Attic red-figure kylix depicting Oedipus seated on the left contemplating the riddle of the sphinx, seated on a column on the right.

Background image: ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens, Jan. 15, 2006, CC BY-SA 2.5

Cover image: Oedipus and the sphinx, Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 475 BC, Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Vatican City

Texts

Curators' Remarks

  • Peter Paul Rubens painting depicting infant Achilles being dipped into River Styx

    Achilles

    by Forrest Glembo, Chad Empey
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  • The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. The sculpture stands over 6 feet tall and is crafted from marble. It depicts a partially draped female figure with her upper body exposed and her lower body covered in flowing drapery. The sculpture is missing both arms and features detailed, wavy hair pulled back and a serene facial expression. The body’s contours are finely carved.

    AphroditeVenus De Milo

    by Angel Nicole Estrella
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  • The statue depicts Apollo and Daphne in a near-close embrace. Half of Daphne is slowly getting turned into a laurel tree just as Apollo is trying to touch her. The sculpture is made of white marble. This sculpture looks like Apollo and Daphne are in an intimate embrace, but Daphne is escaping from Apollo's advances.

    ApolloApollo and Daphne

    by Rin Prabhakaran
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  • Cover of Ares

    AresImage Evolution Of "Dragon" From Ancient Greek Mythology To Modern Films

    by YIJIE LU
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  • Cover of Athena

    Athena

    by Nancy Le
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  • Cover of Dionysus

    Dionysus

    by Garth Dylan Ball
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  • Cover of Eros/Cupid

    Eros/Cupid

    by Uthaylah Al-Arab
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  • Cover of Helen of Troy

    Helen of Troy

    by Maya Clauson-Nehus, Jo Crilly
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  • Cover of Medusa

    Medusa

    by Grace Marie Huffman, Joey Scardina
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  • Cover of Moirai/The Fates

    Moirai/The Fates

    by Mara Ullan
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  • Pandora

    by Fatima Gbla
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  • Cover of Penelope

    Penelope

    by Marie La Fond
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  • Cover of Persephone

    Persephone

    by Audrey Cathryn Murphy, Madeleine Poole
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  • Cover of Poseidon

    Poseidon

    by Nathaniel Zeleke, Tatiana B Gefter
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  • Cover of Zeus

    Zeus

    by Amanda Cheng
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  • Zeus

    by Lucian Davis
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Resources

Single Resources

21 Total Resources