Museum of Greek and Roman Mythology, Wi '25

CLAS 430 Winter 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

  • Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector

    Achilles

    by Antonia Kwan, Ryan Zhu, Anthony Wang
    Published
    • This text has 16 annotations
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  • Nude statue of the Goddess Aphrodite showing her reaching for her towel while covering her pubic area leaving her breasts exposed.

    AphroditeAphrodite of Knidos

    by Taise Nish, Markus Shepherd
    Published
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  • Cover of Apollo

    Apollo

    by Wanqi Dong, Zhiyuan Liu
    Published
    • This text has 3 annotations
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  • Artemis

    by Jane Cox, Rachel Yin
    Published
    • This text has 4 annotations
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  • Cover of Athena

    Athena

    by Lily Liu, Sophie Robbins
    Published
    • This text has 12 annotations
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  • Cover of Demeter Virtual Museum

    Demeter Virtual Museum

    by Harrison Prow, Claire Reiger
    Published
    • This text has 3 annotations
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  • Cover of Group Project: Hades

    Group Project: Hades

    by Lydia Trinh, Reid Sunderland
    Published
    • This text has 7 annotations
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  • Cover of Hera

    Hera

    by Kiera Debacker, Margaret Young, Marly Paul
    Published
    • This text has 5 annotations
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  • Cover of Medusa Virtual Museum

    Medusa Virtual Museum

    by Loreley Drees, Cristianna Williamson
    Published
    • This text has 10 annotations
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  • The Muses

    by Danielle Sanchez
    Published
    • This text has 3 annotations
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  • Cover of Odysseus

    Odysseus

    by Jonathan Shu, Ryan Kim
    Published
    • This text has 7 annotations
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  • https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/1001-stories/pandoras-box

    Pandora

    by Sophia Brown, Brianna Knowles
    Published
    • This text has 5 annotations
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  • Cover of Penelope

    Penelope

    by Marie La Fond
    Published
    • This text has 2 annotations
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  • Cover of Persephone

    Persephone

    by Riley Rock, Emily Du
    Published
    • This text has 6 annotations
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  • Cover of Polyhymnia

    Polyhymnia

    by Jace Holmes
    Published
    • This text has 4 annotations
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  • Cover of Poseidon

    Poseidon

    by Heidi Ahn, Brianna Eckhardt
    Published
    • This text has 11 annotations
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Resources

Single Resources

22 Total Resources