RESEARCH DESK · EDITORIAL STANDARD 01
MythBranch is moving from a single family-tree interface toward a source-addressable knowledge base for Greek and Roman mythology. The core rule is simple: a relationship is a claim made by a source, within a tradition, at a particular time.
EDITORIAL METHOD
The aim is not to imitate the visual language of scholarship. It is to make every important editorial choice inspectable.
Greek and Roman mythology survives through poems, drama, mythography, local cult, inscriptions, images, and later reception. Where witnesses disagree, MythBranch records parallel assertions instead of silently choosing one universal family tree.
Genealogical and identity statements are modeled as individual assertions. Each receives a tradition, an evidence state, a passage or catalogue reference, and an editorial note explaining what the source does—and does not—support.
Jupiter is not stored as a translation string that erases Zeus, and Mars is not treated as Ares with a Latin label. Each can be an independent entity joined by an explicit cultural-identification crosswalk.
A vase, relief, coin, cult title, sanctuary, or performance can preserve evidence absent from a literary narrative. Object records therefore need maker, date, findspot, collection, image rights, and stable institutional identifiers.
Every public release should carry a version, change history, review state, and machine-readable export. Corrections remain attributable instead of being overwritten without an editorial trail.
Modern scholarship helps explain patterns, but an interpretation is not presented as an ancient quotation. Ancient testimony, modern argument, visual identification, and editorial inference remain visibly separate.
EVIDENCE ARCHITECTURE
A family-tree line can look certain even when it represents a late summary, a local variant, or a modern identification. The evidence stack keeps those differences visible at the record level.
Ancient Greek and Latin texts at passage level; inscriptions; papyri; coins; securely catalogued objects.
Modern editions, source-by-source handbooks, LIMC iconography, archaeological corpora, and peer-reviewed research.
Museum and archive records with accession numbers, provenance, dating, rights, and stable URLs.
Later literature, performance, painting, film, and popular culture, dated and separated from ancient evidence.
GLOBAL RESEARCH NETWORK
These resources serve different evidentiary roles. MythBranch links to them; it does not imply endorsement, formal partnership, or permission to reproduce restricted records.
Tufts University · United States
Perseus · United States
Harvard University · United States
University of California, Irvine · United States
United States
International
London · United Kingdom
New York · United States
Los Angeles · United States
Paris · France
Athens · Greece
Athens · Greece
Vatican City
University of Oxford · United Kingdom
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU · International
Packard Humanities Institute · United States
KU Leuven · International
University of Oxford · United Kingdom
University of London · United Kingdom
ICOM · International
International
International
Getty Research Institute · United States
GOVERNANCE ROADMAP
Authority should come from transparent method and qualified review—not from calling one chart complete. The next maturity stage is a named editorial board spanning Greek literature, Roman religion, archaeology, art history, reception studies, digital humanities, and collections data.