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
In the quarrel between father and son, Aristophanes slips in a line adapted from Euripides' Alcestis, one of many jokes at the expense of the tragedian he loved to parody.
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.