The data of mythic spaces

This chapter will describe the methods used in MANTO to create a granular, richly connected model of mythic space. MANTO is a Linked Open Dataset that models the Greek mythic storyworld and its impacts on the historical landscape of the Mediterranean. Under the direction of two scholars of Greek myth without previous experience in digital humanities, it is notably light-weight in its technical aspects, but highly focused on creating a data model that reflects and respects the characteristics of ancient storytelling, including the porous relationship between fictional spaces and historical landscapes, and the tolerance for plurality and dispute in these stories. This chapter will thus set out the ways that existing LOD methods and resources can be used to create bespoke, granular sets of relational networks that both project the fundamental properties of these phenomena and allow discoverability on a previously unprecedented scale.