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Book wikis

One wiki per book: every person's biography, the relationship map, the chronicle and the places — all drawn from the text itself.

• Pausanias' Description of Greece2,524 people

  Pausanias' Description of Greece — 2,524 figures from Pausanias' tour of Greece, Books I–X, and the local myths behind its shrines and cities: relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• Holinshed's Chronicles1,701 people

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• Greek Mythology1,565 people

  Greek Mythology — 1,565 figures from Apollodorus' Library (with the Epitome) and Hesiod's Theogony, including a genealogy spanning generations.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places · Family tree

• Plutarch's Lives1,509 people

  Plutarch's Lives — 1,509 figures across 68 lives: relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• Herodotus' Histories826 people

  Herodotus' Histories — 826 figures from Herodotus' Histories (G. C. Macaulay's translation): relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle752 people

  The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle — 752 figures from the annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• The Metamorphoses of Ovid714 people

  The Metamorphoses of Ovid — 714 figures from Ovid's fifteen books of transformations (Henry T. Riley's prose translation, with his notes): relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• The Twelve Caesars654 people

  The Twelve Caesars — 654 figures from Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Thomson/Forester translation): relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• The Boy's Froissart627 people

  The Boy's Froissart — 627 figures from Sidney Lanier's edition of Froissart's Chronicles: relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• Le Morte d'Arthur603 people

  Le Morte d'Arthur — 603 figures across all 21 books: relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• Tacitus: Histories and Annals573 people

  Tacitus: Histories and Annals — 573 figures from Tacitus' Histories, Annals I–VI and Agricola (Church & Brodribb; Thomas Gordon): relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

• The Wars of the Jews556 people

  The Wars of the Jews — 556 figures from Josephus' history of the Jewish War (William Whiston's translation): relationship constellations, chronicle, and places.

  People · Relationships · Chronicle · Places

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• Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized — Places@holinsheds-chronicles · Nov 5

  Where things happened. Only places the text names are listed. ⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chr

• Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized — Chronicle@holinsheds-chronicles · Nov 5

  Ordered by year . Years come from what the text itself states — taken as written, never inferred; events with no stated year carry forward f

• Heroic Romances of Ireland — Places@heroic-romances-of-ireland · Nov 5

  Where things happened. Only places the text names are listed. ⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chr

• Heroic Romances of Ireland — Chronicle@heroic-romances-of-ireland · Nov 5

  Ordered by tale and part . No event in this book could be dated from the text, so it is not dated — no anchor, no chronology; a date is neve

• Ten Years Later — Places@ten-years-later · Nov 5

  Where things happened. Only places the text names are listed. ⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chr

• Ten Years Later — Chronicle@ten-years-later · Nov 5

  Ordered by year where the text states one — taken as written, never inferred. This book has no continuous chronology, so nothing is carried

• Shakespeare's Roman Plays — Places@shakespeare-roman-plays · Nov 5

  Where things happened. Only places the text names are listed. ⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chr

• Shakespeare's Roman Plays — Chronicle@shakespeare-roman-plays · Nov 5

  Ordered by chapter . No event in this book could be dated from the text, so it is not dated — no anchor, no chronology; a date is never infe

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