Data stories

Classic books, read as numbers

Each story takes one of our character maps and reads it as data — who kills whom, who is tied to whom, where the map is thin — with a chart for each claim and the public-domain text behind every number.

Every Named Killing in the Iliad

Read the Iliad’s hostile lines as a ledger and the poem rearranges itself: the men with the longest kill lists are not the ones the title promises, and the book with the most dead is not the one with Achilles in it.

Data Stories From Classic Books | Constellate