MythosData — MCP server

Comparative mythology as citable data — Greek, Roman, Norse and Egyptian gods and primary sources

A remote MCP server over a curated knowledge graph of comparative mythology. Every claim it returns is bound to a passage of a primary text — Hesiod, Homer, the Homeric Hymns, Apollodorus, Ovid, Virgil, Livy, Herodotus, Plutarch, the Poetic Edda, Budge's Egyptian anthology — with the line, section or stanza, so an agent can quote the witness instead of an encyclopaedia, and say according to whom.

Nothing to install. It is a hosted streamable-HTTP endpoint:

https://mythosdata.dev/mcp

Add it to a client

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http mythosdata https://mythosdata.dev/mcp

Claude Desktop / any client reading mcpServers

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mythosdata": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://mythosdata.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

No API key, no account, no auth. Read-only.

Check it answers, without any client at all:

curl -s https://mythosdata.dev/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -H 'mcp-protocol-version: 2025-06-18' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Related MCP server: Academic Research MCP

Tools

Eight, each with an outputSchema, each returning structuredContent. (A ninth, compare — two to six objects side by side with their facets, shared relations and claims — ships with the next framework release; this corpus is built for it.)

The intended path is get_overview → search or answer → get_entity → get_related.

What is in the corpus

Four traditions — Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian — as deities, Titans and primordials, heroes, creatures, places, events and the texts themselves; Greek↔Roman pairs and cross-pantheon comparisons (creation, flood and end-of-the-world myths, underworlds, thunder gods, tricksters, sun, love, war, wisdom and mother goddesses); guides (the Twelve Olympians, family trees, the Greek–Roman equivalence table, which primary source tells which myth, how to cite them); a glossary; FAQs. Every object carries indexed facets — pantheon, kind, group, domains, symbols, wikidata — in api/index.json, so the whole corpus can be filtered by pantheon in one request.

Questions it is built to answer

• Where was Zeus born according to Hesiod, and what does Apollodorus say instead?

• Is Jupiter the same god as Zeus? — the same myths, a different cult.

• Which Greek god did Herodotus identify with Amun?

• How does Thor die at Ragnarök, stanza by stanza?

Machine-readable surfaces

Each knowledge object has a human page and a machine twin at the same id, with a canonical URL that agrees across all of them.

Behaviour worth knowing before you integrate

• POST only. Every other method answers 405 with an Allow: POST, OPTIONS header.

• Rate limit: 120 requests per minute per client, counted in a shared store, published on every response as RateLimit-Limit, RateLimit-Remaining and RateLimit-Reset (all three exposed via CORS). It fails open: if the store is unreachable the request is served.

• Malformed input gets a spec-correct JSON-RPC error — -32700 for unparseable bodies, -32602 for an unknown tool — never an HTML error page.

• Request bodies are capped and validated before transport.

Privacy

No accounts, no cookies, no ads. Usage is measured in aggregate with daily-rotating hashed identifiers and a 200-day retention; raw IPs are never stored. Full policy: PRIVACY.md.

Provenance and licence

Knowledge content is CC-BY-4.0: use it, cite it. The primary texts were read in the Perseus Digital Library's public-domain translations (CC BY-SA 3.0), the Bellows Poetic Edda (1923) and Budge (1914), and every claim names the passage. Wikipedia-derived objects are tiered derived and kept under a quarter of the graph. There is no secondary tier: the authoring environment could reach primary texts and Wikipedia and nothing in between, and the corpus says so rather than pretending otherwise.

How it is built

Compiled and served by Citarium, a source-available framework for turning a knowledge graph into a website, an API, an MCP server and agent-readable files from a single source, under external evaluation.

The framework's code is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 and its repository is not public. What is public — and what actually matters for trusting an answer — is this server, the corpus it serves, and the registered source behind every claim: get_sources returns what any given claim rests on, so it can be checked rather than trusted.

This repository is the server's public face: its manifest and its documentation. The corpus itself lives at mythosdata.dev.