To use, open the layer control on the right side of the screen and toggle the name of one or more mythical figures. The map will display any points in the dataset associated with the selected figures. Click on a point marker to open a popup containing the place name, associated Pleiades ID number, and a list of textual citations supporting the person-place connection.
The Mythodikos project, Ancient Greek for 'connected to myth', is intended to allow an individual to consider mythological figures not just as they are associated with particular texts, authors, and traditions of writing, but also as they are connected to various geographical spaces.
Very few digital tools can be called perfect, and none are capable of providing nuanced interpretations of data. Mythodikos is no exception and contains plenty of room for errors in both the back-end and front-end processes of data collection and visualization. Rather, Mythodikos is meant to be starting point for research, something that can call attention to patterns and outliers that might otherwise go unnoticed, and thus inspire a more targeted examination. It can help to reframe our perception of myth as something that consists not only of narrative, but also as something that embodies and is embodied by spatial geographies.
The Mythodikos project has been supported by the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies and the Library & Information Technology Services (LITS) program in Digital Scholarship at Bryn Mawr College.
Stella Fritzell (Project Lead)
Radcliffe Edmonds (Consultant)
Alice McGrath (Consultant)
Alicia Peaker (Consultant)
Brian Cole
Sean Keenan
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Data for the Mythodikos project has been complied from the Perseus Digital Library Greek corpus using a text-mining tool built in Python. Geographic coordinates are taken from Pleiades.
The source code and dataset (geoJSON format) for the Mythodikos project may be accessed through its GitHub repository.