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cff-version: 1.2.0
title: >-
  The Monomyth Ontology: a formal OWL vocabulary for
  Campbell's Hero's Journey
message: >-
  If you use this dataset, please cite it using the metadata
  from this file.
type: dataset
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20324714
authors:
  - given-names: Tommaso
    family-names: Barbato
    email: tommaso.barbato@studio.unibo.it
    affiliation: University of Bologna
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0093-4304'
  - given-names: Nicol
    family-names: D'Amelio
    email: nicol.damelio@studio.unibo.it
    affiliation: University of Bologna
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8197-6255'
  - given-names: Maryam
    family-names: Dadrasrazi
    email: maryam.dadrasrazi@studio.unibo.it
    affiliation: University of Bologna
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9585-5662'
  - given-names: Martina
    family-names: Uccheddu
    email: martina.uccheddu@studio.unibo.it
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7090-3823'
    affiliation: University of Bologna
repository-code: 'https://github.com/metamuses/monomyth/'
url: 'https://monomyth.metamuses.org'
abstract: >-
  Joseph Campbell's monomyth, the cyclical pattern of
  departure, initiation, and return articulated in The Hero
  with a Thousand Faces (1949), claims that a single
  narrative grammar underlies heroic myths across cultures,
  periods, and media. Yet the framework's analytical value
  lies less in the stories that conform to it than in those
  that resist, compress, invert, or displace its stages: the
  most revealing readings emerge precisely where the fit is
  imperfect. The Monomyth OWL ontology formalizes this
  insight by treating divergence from the monomyth template
  not as noise but as constitutive: it models the seventeen
  canonical stages across three acts, eight archetypal
  character roles drawn from Christopher Vogler's
  dramaturgical adaptation, and a six-point fit quality
  scale ranging from perfect alignment to deliberate
  inversion. Three orthogonal divergence classes (narrative,
  sequential, and semiotic) capture what changes when a
  stage is absent or subverted, when it occurs out of its
  expected order, and when the signs through which it is
  expressed shift from the sacred to the secular, from the
  external to the internal, or from one cultural vocabulary
  to another. The interpretive act of reading a narrative
  through Campbell's lens is reified as a structured,
  queryable entity that anchors every analytical judgment
  to the specific narrative moment it describes, turning
  the relationship between an individual story and a
  theoretical model of storytelling into a first-class
  knowledge engineering object. An accompanying knowledge
  graph instantiates the ontology across twelve works
  spanning from Sophocles to modern cinema and videogames.
keywords:
  - monomyth
  - hero's journey
  - ontology
  - Joseph Campbell
  - OWL
  - computational narratology
license: CC-BY-4.0
version: '1.2'
date-released: '2026-07-18'