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 September 20, 2026, the harvest has mapped 1,613 of 1,639 passages of text across 345 of the library's 2,030 works — yielding 38,998 entities, 14,433 stance-typed citations and 358,947 verbatim quotations. It grows on its own; this page is redrawn from the data at every build.
the ledgers
38,998 entities- Figures persons, gods, sages, rulers — historical and mythological — Indra, Zeus, Agni … 10,207 figures
- Ideas doctrines, virtues, laws, duties, abstractions — Justice, The soul, Dharma … 9,141 ideas
- Places cities, rivers, worlds, courts, prisons — Athens, England, Troy … 3,266 places
- Groups peoples, castes, schools, sects, institutions — Athenians, Spartans, Greeks … 5,831 groups
- Events trials, sacrifices, journeys, battles, rituals — Śrāddha, Trojan War, Slaying of Vṛtra … 5,733 events
- Objects books, weapons, implements, money, vessels — Magna Carta, Thunderbolt, Constitution of the United States … 4,148 objects
- Animals creatures as creatures, categories, examples — Cow, Horses, Serpent … 672 animals
The Divinity view — the deities and pantheons of every tradition, side by side
the citation graph
14,433 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
- Iliad
- Psalms
- Book of Isaiah
- Genesis
- Gospel of Matthew
- Epistle to the Romans
- First Epistle to the Corinthians
- Acts of the Apostles
The full citation ledger — 622 recurring targets across 301 citing works, and the wanted list: the texts the library does not hold but its books keep reaching for.
who quotes whom
25,771 utterances · 13,004 partiesA different graph from the citation ledger, and not derivable from it: a citation is a text leaning on a source, an utterance is words being repeated — in quotation, in report, or carried forward as authority. It records whose voice does the carrying, which is why Homer arrives most often in the mouth of Socrates.
The full quotation ledger — 1,172 quoted partys with pages and 3,405 speakers, every utterance anchored to the passage that carries it.
the shape of the harvest
harvest of September 20, 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
15,929 topicsgrief and mourning · homecoming (nostos) · divine intervention in mortal battle · hospitality (xenia) · the immortality of the soul · commensurability and incommensurability of magnitudes · divine favor and intervention · divine favor and wrath · ethnographic description of foreign customs · fame and glory (kleos) · healing and removal of disease · proof by contradiction (reductio ad absurdum) · proportionality and gradation of punishment · cunning and deception · determination of correct tithi (lunar day) for ritual observance · divine intervention in mortal affairs · divine intervention resolving human conflict · homecoming and the hope of odysseus's return (nostos) · 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.
But the poetry of Homer alone do I truly see to be noble, magnificent, and kingly, the poetry to which a man ought to give his mind—above all a man who is to rule over whatever men there may be anywhere, or, failing that, over the most numerous and most renowned;
The machinery and its receipts live in the engine room; the historical argument, in Carried Across.