Lineages
Every great book stands on older ones. Homer gave Virgil his wanderings and his war; Virgil walked Dante through Hell. Bring any book to the centre: what it draws on is to its left, what draws on it to its right.
Of its time
It draws on
Spain's epic answers France's: another Christian hero on the frontier with the Moors, told with the same set phrases, epithets and battle scenes. But the Cid is a loyal vassal unjustly exiled who wins his way back, not a martyr.
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No later work in the atlas draws on it yet.
Of its places
The whole web
Every line in the atlas, by place or by time. Tap a work to bring it to the centre.