Mythotopia is now online
02-10-2023
Upon successful completion of the 33-month project Mythological Routes in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Mythotopia is now online. Starting from the systematic recording, and mapping of selected myths of the region that are accompanied by photos of related artifacts, Mythotopia showcases its wider cultural and tourist wealth. Myths and visualizations are linked with the current environment: natural, architectural, archaeological, cultural, recreational, gastronomic… helping Greek- and English-speaking users design their own itineraries on the map based on personal criteria. Mythotopia now contains material on 36 myths, 387 reference texts, 340 visualizations of artifacts, and more than 2,500 points of interest. It also offers an educational platform with tools to create pedagogical resources based on the entire content of the website. Teachers can create and upload educational scenarios and various types of activities that can be linked to the scenarios, as well as share all these with their students.
The original textual content of Mythotopia is freely available through the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation Apollonis on clarin:el, the national infrastructure for language resources & technologies. Resources include a raw corpus, a sentence-aligned corpus, a lemmatized, POS-tagged, and syntactically annotated corpus, as well as a raw audio corpus, all in Greek and English.
Mythotopia is the outcome of the happy collaboration between the Institute of Language and Speech Processing of Athena R.C. that coordinated the project (Project Leader: Dr. Gregory Stainhaouer), and the Department of Greek Philology of the Democritus University of Thrace.