OdysseyVirgils
OdysseyVirgils is a collaborative digital humanities project and open-access online resource that examines the intertextual relationship between Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid, as well as their influence on later epic and narrative forms. The project seeks to map motifs, narrative structures, and characterizations across ancient and modern texts, and to provide scholarly tools for analysis and teaching.
The initiative was founded in the late 2010s by a network of classical studies and digital humanities
Key offerings include a searchable corpus of primary and secondary texts, annotated readings that highlight echoes
Reception has highlighted OdysseyVirgils for advancing intertextual study and for making complex textual relationships accessible to
Related topics include intertextuality, Homer, Virgil, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and digital humanities.