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Method

Every claim on this site is grounded in a source someone actually opened. That rule is the whole product, so here is how it works.

Four tiers of evidence

  1. The corpus. A library of mythology scholarship held locally and searched directly. A passage we can quote and locate is assertable.
  2. A primary source we opened. An edition, a publisher record, a rights-holder’s own listing. Assertable, with the URL and the date we read it.
  3. A real source we have not read. We may plan around it. We do not publish it.
  4. An untraceable claim. Dropped. No exceptions for how plausible it sounds.

Verified links and catalogue leads

MythSource currently covers 763 figures and 2081 sourced myths. Its 345 verified modern connections have been checked against the work and linked to a specific myth. These are the cards shown in Overview.

The separate catalogue contains 4,298 broader leads gathered from reference data. They can help readers discover where a name appears, but they are marked as unchecked and are never presented as proof that a work retells a myth.

What a citation shows

A myth fact cites the primary text by stanza or chapter, plus the corpus book that carries it. A scholarly dispute names the scholar and the view. What a modern work does is cited to the work itself, its own title as its source. None of it is collapsed or hidden behind a toggle. If you cannot check a claim here, that is a fault, and it is one you should be able to see.