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
Shakespeare found his Caesar, Brutus and Antony in Plutarch's Lives, in Thomas North's 1579 translation, and followed it closely, from the soothsayer's warning to the ghost that visits Brutus before Philippi.
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.