The web of figures
Each tradition gathers into its own constellation. Gold dashed threads mark where ancient writers or modern scholars equate figures across cultures. Choose a figure to open its folio.
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The map of myth
Real places named in the myths, sized by how often the library mentions them. Choose a myth to trace its route. Below the map lie the four otherworlds.
The myths, reconstructed
Each myth is assembled episode by episode from the passages that tell it. Where the sources disagree, the variants are kept.
Index of figures
Every figure in the atlas, with the number of passages in the library that name it.
| Name | Original | Tradition | Kind | Passages |
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How it was made
Sources and licences
- Perseus Digital Library: canonical-greekLit, canonical-latinLit and canonical-engLit: CC BY-SA 4.0
- Open Greek and Latin: First1KGreek, CSEL and the Patrologia Latina: CC BY-SA 4.0 (declared per file)
- Oracc: Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP): CC BY-SA 3.0
- Oracc: Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCPO): CC0
- Oracc: Bilinguals in Late Mesopotamian Scholarship (BLMS), edited by Jeremiah Peterson: CC0
- Pyramid Texts: Universal Dependencies UD_Egyptian-PC, release 2.18: CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dante's Commedia (Petrocchi's text, via DanteSearch): Universal Dependencies UD_Italian-Old, release 2.18: CC BY-SA 4.0
- Referenzkorpus Mittelhochdeutsch (ReM), version 2.1: CC BY-SA 4.0
- Geste: corpus of chansons de geste (Camps et al.): CC BY-SA 4.0
- Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota): AM 242 fol, AM 35 fol, AM 132 fol, AM 544 4to, GKS 2365 4to, Holm D 4, Holm perg 4 fol and NRA norr. fragm. 52, each under its editor's licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Inscriptiones Graecae II/III³ 8, 1: the Attic curse tablets, edited by Jaime Curbera (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences): CC BY 4.0
- I.Sicily: the inscriptions of ancient Sicily (University of Oxford): CC BY 4.0
- Epigraphic Database Heidelberg: curse tablets of the Roman provinces: CC BY-SA 4.0
- papyri.info: the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri and the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (the Greek magical papyri): CC BY 3.0
- Kyprianos: database of Coptic magical texts, with their English translations (University of Würzburg): ODbL 1.0
- Oracc: Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals online (CMAwRo), with Maqlû, edited by Tzvi Abusch and Daniel Schwemer: texts CC0, translations CC BY-SA 3.0: CC0 and CC BY-SA 3.0
- Oracc: Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia (GKAB), Eleanor Robson and the GKAB project: CC BY-SA 3.0
- Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain) with its morphology and lemmas: CC BY 4.0
- The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha: the Testament of Solomon (McCown), the Life of Adam and Eve (Tischendorf, Meyer) and the Greek Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: CC BY 4.0
- R. H. Charles's 1 Enoch, Jubilees and Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Morfill's 2 Enoch and Conybeare's Testament of Solomon, via English Wikisource and Sefaria: public domain
- Sefaria: the Babylonian Talmud (Vilna text) and Rubin's Hebrew Jubilees from Hebrew Wikisource (CC BY-SA); community translations (CC0); the JPS 1917 Bible, Cohen's Berakhot, Friedlander's Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer and Eisenstein's Otzar Midrashim (public domain): CC BY-SA, CC0 and public domain
- Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership, Phase I: Marlowe, James VI, Scot, Gifford, Heywood, More, Glanvill and the other early English books: CC0
- Tanzil Quran Text (Simple, version 1.1), Tanzil Project, tanzil.net, quoted verbatim: CC BY 3.0
- Pickthall's Koran (1930), Burton's Arabian Nights (1885) and the English Dominican Summa Theologiae, via Project Gutenberg: public domain
- John Parker's Dionysius the Areopagite (1894-1899), in Roger Pearse's transcription: public domain
- CATMuS Medieval: transcriptions from the CREMMA, HTRomance and Gallicorpora projects: CC BY 4.0
- Natural Earth coastlines: public domain
- d3.js 7.9.0, by Mike Bostock: ISC licence
The atlas's own text and data are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0, as its sources require. The texts were read in Classica Codex.