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Greta Hawes is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at Macquarie University's School of Humanities, Department of History and Archaeology. She co-directs the Data Horizons Research Centre and leads two major digital projects: MANTO (a digital model showing how myths impacted the historical landscape of the Mediterranean) and Canopos (an open-access repository for mythographic texts).
Her research focuses on Greek myth, particularly examining how and why the Greeks told stories with special attention to lesser-known contexts for ancient storytelling. She investigates the local nature of Greek myth and how communal storytelling changed during crises. Her work explores spatial dynamics of myth, mythographic topography, rationalization of myth, and digital modeling of narrative traditions. She has made significant contributions to understanding the spatial dimensions of ancient storytelling through her analysis of Pausanias' Periegesis and other ancient texts.
Hawes' publication record reveals several key trends: a consistent focus on Pausanias as a crucial source for understanding local myth traditions; innovative integration of digital humanities approaches to myth studies; exploration of rationalization as a fundamental component of Greek myth rather than marginal practice; and interdisciplinary work bridging Classics with spatial theory, digital humanities, and cross-cultural reception studies. Her recent work demonstrates increasing emphasis on gender dynamics in myth and cross-cultural comparative approaches.
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (2023)
- ARC Future Fellow
Hawes actively supervises research students interested in Greek myth and digital modeling of narrative traditions. She has secured multiple research projects including 'Canopos' (2020-present), 'MANTO' (2019-present), 'Estudios sobre tradición, transmisión y recepción de la mitografía griega' (2020-2023), 'DE17 The Spatial Dynamics of Myth in Pausanias' Periegesis' (2017-2021), and 'Estudios sobre transmisión y recepción de Paléfato' (2016-2018). Her external roles include Research Associate at the Center for Hellenic Studies and Commissioning Editor for The Classical Review.
She leads the MANTO project, a digital database of Greek myth that enables systematic analysis of narrative patterns, and the Canopos repository, which provides open access to mythographic texts. These initiatives represent significant contributions to digital humanities approaches in Classics, creating new methodologies for analyzing myth transmission and spatial dimensions of storytelling.
