The Atlas
A map of the library drawn from the texts themselves: who cites whom and with what stance; where the figures, ideas, places, peoples, events, objects and animals of twenty-five centuries appear — every claim anchored to a verbatim paragraph you can read in place.
As of August 28, 2026, the harvest has mapped 2,083 of 12,797 passages of text across 542 of the library's 2,018 works — yielding 46,254 entities, 17,000 stance-typed citations and 451,521 verbatim quotations. It grows on its own; this page is redrawn from the data at every build.
the ledgers
46,254 entities- Figures persons, gods, sages, rulers — historical and mythological — Zeus, Indra, Socrates … 12,480 figures
- Ideas doctrines, virtues, laws, duties, abstractions — Justice, Virtue, Dharma … 9,955 ideas
- Places cities, rivers, worlds, courts, prisons — Athens, Sparta, England … 3,908 places
- Groups peoples, castes, schools, sects, institutions — Athenians, Spartans, Greeks … 6,541 groups
- Events trials, sacrifices, journeys, battles, rituals — Trojan War, Śrāddha, Slaying of Vṛtra … 7,455 events
- Objects books, weapons, implements, money, vessels — Magna Carta, Thunderbolt, Constitution of the United States … 5,079 objects
- Animals creatures as creatures, categories, examples — Cows, Horses, Dog … 836 animals
The Divinity view — the deities and pantheons of every tradition, side by side
the citation graph
17,000 citationsEach time a text names another work or author, the harvest records the stance — cited as authority, endorsed, refuted, extended, or merely reported. Every row below opens on the passages that do the citing; a name in italic is one the library does not hold under a page of its own.
Most-cited works
The full citation ledger — 746 recurring targets across 482 citing works, and the wanted list: the texts the library does not hold but its books keep reaching for.
the shape of the harvest
harvest of August 28, 2026Mapping began with the classical core — the Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Kawi texts are furthest along; the modern corpus is still largely undrawn. The bars state plainly what is and is not yet mapped, in passages of text per era and language.
By era
By language
the themes
20,227 topicsgrief and mourning · homecoming (nostos) · divine intervention in mortal battle · hospitality (xenia) · reversal of fortune · the instability and reversal of fortune · commensurability and incommensurability of magnitudes · ethnographic description of foreign customs · proof by contradiction (reductio ad absurdum) · proportionality and gradation of punishment · the immortality of the soul · vengeance and retribution · composure and dignity in the face of death · cunning and deception · divine favor and intervention · divine favor and wrath · divine intervention in mortal affairs · freedom versus slavery · the full index
the method
The atlas is extracted from the source texts by machine readers, under one discipline carried over from library practice: no claim without a verbatim quotation. The extractor may only point at paragraphs — the quotation is attached afterwards, deterministically, from the text itself, so a fabricated quote is structurally impossible. Every entry links to the exact paragraph that carries it.
wherein again he did rightly and worthily, in that, though he could not altogether quell his passion, yet he restrained and reduced it under the command of reason, before it brake forth into such an irreparable act of mischief.
The machinery and its receipts live in the engine room; the historical argument, in Carried Across.