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 scholars, artists, and educators. It operates as a collaboration among university departments and cultural institutions, with an editorial board guiding content and methodological standards. All resources are released under open licenses to encourage reuse with attribution.

Key offerings include a searchable corpus of primary and secondary texts, annotated readings that highlight echoes between the works, and interactive visualization tools such as route maps, motif networks, and timeline comparisons. The platform also hosts user-submitted essays, classroom-ready teaching guides, and a discussion forum to foster dialogue across disciplines.

Reception has highlighted OdysseyVirgils for advancing intertextual study and for making complex textual relationships accessible to students, while some critique the variable quality of user-generated content and the challenges of maintaining scholarly rigor in a public-facing space. The project continues to expand its corpus and tooling.

Related topics include intertextuality, Homer, Virgil, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and digital humanities.