How to Contribute

The Deltos Project modules bring together a curated set of resources for teaching a unit related to gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean. A module may be organized around a topic (e.g., prostitution, Roman love elegy), a particular work (e.g., Aristophanes’ Lysistrata; the Cnidian Aphrodite), or a particular figure (e.g., Cleopatra; Athena). Please see Explore Our Modules for a full list of modules. If you are interested in proposing a module, please email us at deltosproject@gmail.com or click the “SUBMIT A MODULE” button above and upload your materials through the submission form. 

We are especially excited for modules that offer ready-to-use, innovative, and effective teaching materials, such as workshops, discussion questions, and other activities.  On the form, there are text boxes where you are invited to describe your module and give recommendations for how to use the materials. 

Each module begins with a title, thumbnail image, author’s name, and brief introduction, which will represent the module on the “Explore our Module’s Page.” 

All modules are organized into eight primary categories: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, Pedagogy, Theory, Reception, and Multidisciplinary. These categories help sort our library of modules but need not be restrictive. Though your module may span multiple categories, please select one that makes the most sense for the material in its pedagogical context. 

Please add a concise framing discussion that acquaints the user with the module’s subject matter, content, and aims. Ideally, modules will be adaptable to teaching at different levels and in different styles (e.g., seminar, lecture, online).

In the fields on the submission form, you can enter primary and secondary sources as text, images, and/or as links to external sites. Please provide working links to open access material wherever possible.  See the Creative Commons website for more information.

We encourage you to upload resources, including slides, activities, multimedia resources, and instructor’s notes. We welcome innovative pedagogies! Please zip your files. You can learn how on a Mac here, or on Windows here. Note that not every module will contain material in all of these categories. 

Use the downloadable PDF linked below to prepare your materials. The site works best if you upload simple text (without elaborate formatting).  Be ready with all of your content, including images with captions, Zipped files, and comments for the text boxes, prior to beginning your upload: The form doesn’t allow submissions to be saved in process.

After we receive your module, our editorial team will review it within a month. We will lightly edit your module for formatting.  If we see the need for substantive revisions, we will reach out to you. Once the editing process is complete, your module will be published on the site and you will receive a message with your module’s URL and attribution information.  Please reach out if you would like to preview your module prior to publication.