ABOUT · EDITORIAL POLICY · CORRECTIONS
Mythology made inspectable.
MythBranch is an independently maintained English-language educational project. It publishes source-linked Greek mythology family trees, research profiles, visual guides, and open data without claiming that one modern chart can replace the many traditions preserved in ancient texts, cults, and objects.
Who publishes MythBranch?
MythBranch is the named publisher and editorial organization for this site. It is not presented as a university, museum, learned society, or formal partner of the institutions cited in its pages. Authority is earned through visible evidence, precise attribution, stated limits, and revision—not through an implied affiliation.
Pages published by MythBranch identify the organization as author and publisher in machine-readable metadata. A named academic review board is a future goal and is not claimed until qualified reviewers can be identified publicly.
Editorial method
Genealogy, divine emergence, unions, and narrative encounters are stored as different relationship types. Greek and Roman deities remain separately understood cultural figures, even when a conventional cross-reference such as Zeus–Jupiter is useful. When ancient witnesses conflict, the disagreement is labeled rather than silently flattened.
Primary texts and securely catalogued objects come first. Museum records, critical editions, academic studies, and dated reception sources add context. The research standards and evidence knowledge graph explain how claims, sources, and variant traditions are recorded.
Illustrations and image rights
Portraits created for the interactive atlas are interpretive visual aids, not ancient likenesses. Museum and collection images are labeled with their object record, provider, and known reuse status. A crop or thumbnail never replaces the linked institutional catalogue entry.
Downloadable MythBranch data is separately licensed; see the MIT data license and the dataset landing page for the current version and citation format.
Corrections and revisions
To report a genealogical error, mistranslation, broken source, image-rights issue, or accessibility problem, email contact@mythbranch.com. Include the page URL, the claim in question, and—where possible—the passage, object record, or institutional source that supports the correction.
Substantive corrections are reflected in versioned data or a new page modification date. Minor typography and layout repairs may be made without changing the underlying claim.
Site launched: August 20, 2026 · Policy last reviewed: