Museum of Greek and Roman Mythology, Su '25

CLAS 430 Summer 2025

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.

On this Greek vase, the sphinx is depicted as a creature with a lion’s body, bird’s wings, and human woman’s head (wearing a tiara). She sits perched on a small Ionic column on the right and looks down at Oedipus, on the left, who is seated. Oedipus, depicted as a bearded adult man, wears a short cloak and a petasus on his head. He crosses his left leg over his right (with his staff propped between his legs) and crosses his arms, with his left hand placed contemplatively beneath his chin.

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

  • Antigone

    Cole Webb, Joseph Loi
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  • Cover of Aphrodite

    AphroditeHerrin des Krieges, Göttin der Liebe, ed. Martina Seifert, Philipp von Zabern, 2009

    Serena Tao
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  • Cover of Diane de Versailles (Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt)

    Diane de Versailles (Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt)

    Koa Chi
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  • Dido/Aeneas

    Geoffrey Zhehao Li
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  • Dionysus

    Karen Labra, Kira Soriano
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  • Cover of Heracles

    Heracles

    Shantal De La Mora Ramos, Nicholas Krehbiel
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  • Cover of Jason And Medea

    Jason And Medea

    Biru Thang, Makayla Martin
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  • Cover of Medusa

    Medusa

    Patrick Kovis, Sai Prakash
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  • In the center Orpheus looks back on Eurydice painted as they go to leave the netherworld. The three fates watch from the left as do Pluto and Proserpine in the upper left.

    Orpheus and Eurydice by Jean Raoux

    Elshaday Fekadie
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  • Cover of Hadestown: A Modern Musical of Orpheus and Eurydice

    Hadestown: A Modern Musical of Orpheus and Eurydice

    Anastasia Francis Coiley
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  • Cover of Penelope

    Penelope

    Marie La Fond
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  • Cover of Zeus

    Zeus

    Madhumitha Sridhar
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Resources

Single Resources

15 Total Resources