Museum of Greek and Roman Mythology, Wi '24

CLAS 430 Winter 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.

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

  • Cover of Athena

    Athena

    Archie Drummond, Jada Edwards
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  • Cupid and Psyche

    Lisa Vanessa Thanadabouth, Elissa Khoury
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  • Daedalus/Icarus

    Sai Likhitha Sunku, Kai Wang Levy
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  • Elektra

    Remy R Boyd-Sandoval, Nikolai Crawford
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  • Hermes

    Bryan Feng, Emma Joy Jefferson
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  • Caravaggio's painting of Medusa, shows this Greek mythology divinity expressing horror. The canvas's background is green and dark tones are used for the painting.

    Medusa

    Ana Luisa Gutierrez
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  • The Musesby Kaya Sol & Jackson Yu

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  • Cover of Penelope

    Penelope

    Marie La Fond
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  • Cover of Persephone

    Persephone

    Salma Hajian, Harshitha Rebala, Shashank Srinivas Rao
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  • Poseidon

    Cooper Whitton
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  • Prometheus

    Rory Patrick Barger, Febely Abella, Jake Wesley Therien
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  • Cover of Zeus

    Zeus

    Phoenix Kriese, Karina Yang
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Resources

Resource Collections

2 Total Collections

Single Resources

16 Total Resources