Museum of Greek and Roman Mythology, Wi '26

CLAS 430 Winter 2026

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

This photograph shows the few remaining Corinthian columns of the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens.

Texts

Curators' Remarks

  • Achilles Come Down

    paige knibbe, Kenneth Tran
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  • Cover of Athena

    Athena

    Jasmine Chen, Natalie Goodrich
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  • Dionysus

    Mikka Zenger
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  • Eros

    Sejal Shah, Reed Hsiao Wong
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  • Hades

    Isayiah Lim, Hongrui Fan
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  • Hermes

    Madeleine Chace, Aiden Yip
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  • Icarus/Daedalus

    Anthony Tong, Nye Mabale
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  • Cover of Medusa

    Medusa

    Grace Louie, Yen Dinh
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  • The Muses

    Lydia Lee, Natalie Ge, Catinca Mosley
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  • Odysseus/Penelope

    Vaishnavi Sistla, Nandini Yogi
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  • Cover of Pandora

    Pandora

    Jiahui He, Virany Leng
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  • Cover of Penelope

    Penelope

    Marie La Fond
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  • Persephone

    Kathryn Brandeau, Payton Tetzlaff
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  • Cover of Poseidon

    Poseidon

    Sritha Sivaramakrishnan, Wenyu Jiao
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  • Theseus And Ariadne

    Sydney Pemble, Nathan Burpeau
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  • Zeus Enthroned

    Omar Khan, Julianne Lopez
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Resources

Single Resources

18 Total Resources