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
Racine retells Euripides' tragedy of a queen who falls in love with her stepson, but moves its centre: in Phèdre it is Phaedra, not Hippolytus, who carries the play, torn between passion and shame.
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.