Dear Readers,

My colleague (Greta Hawes, Macquarie University) and I are inviting you to help us make MANTO better!

MANTO is a digital dataset that models the Greek mythic story world and its impacts on the historical landscape of the Mediterranean. It is built up through assertions about these stories captured from ancient source materials: mainly literary texts currently, but we are increasingly adding data from physical artifacts, inscriptions and papyri. It is a collaboration between students and researchers at Macquarie University and the University of New Hampshire.

You can read more about the project here: https://www.manto-myth.org/manto

And access the public interface here: https://manto.unh.edu/viewer

We want to make MANTO more helpful and user-friendly. And we’d love to hear from you.

Whether you’re a long-time user of MANTO or you’ve just discovered it, we’re interested in how you use it (or might use it in the future!), what you use it for, and how you think it could be improved or expanded. We’re particularly interested in ideas about how MANTO could be developed as a resource for teaching and learning but also interested in people who use it for research or general interest.

You can access the survey here: https://www.manto-myth.org/blog/manto-user-survey

That link will also take you two some short videos that describe the project and show how MANTO can be used.

Please circulate this call further to any colleagues or students that you think might be interested in it. We would like to get feedback from as many people as possible. Please direct any enquires to me.

This survey is part of a set of initiatives to develop MANTO as a tool for teaching, research, and public engagement that have been generously funded throughout 2026 by Dr Janet Gale and the Gale Fund.

-Scott Smith, CANE Immediate-Past-President