The TextMap feature of the Time Layered Cultural Map platform (tlcmap.org) detects place names in uploaded texts and projects them on maps. Places mentioned in individual plays can be mapped in this way and then also combined as sets in composite maps using the Multilayer feature. This paper will present maps of the places mentioned a set of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries and will consider some of the interpretive questions that arise:

- -What unexpected areas are densely populated in the map of place name mentions, and what unexpected areas are sparsely populated?

- -How do genres, and how do authorial canons, vary in this form of spatial representation?

- -Does looking at thousands of place name mentions together support the claim that the plays are vague and confused about place and in a sense 'placeless'?

- -Or the claim that some of the authorial canons display xenophobia?

- -Or the idea that whatever foreign-city location is invoked in them, the reference is understood to be London?

This paper describes how MANTO is gathering up and connecting together the siloed information about Greek myth given to us by ancient artists and storytellers, and revealing within myth new patterns of deep time and mythic space at unprecedented scale.

MANTO (https://manto.unh.edu/viewer) is a born-digital LOD resource that models interactions between people, places and objects in the Greek mythic storyworld. Its data represent assertions preserved in ancient texts, inscriptions, papyri, and artifacts that reflect the local storytelling that created, preserved, and found meaning in mythic traditions. MANTO’s broad remit links together information from different media that have traditionally been kept artificially siloed. But in aiming for more inclusive coverage, MANTO inevitably reveals the unevenness of Greek mythic storytelling: in short, some places, heroes and episodes dominate attention while others remain obscure. Katherine Clarke once observed that ‘fragments of space defined and enriched by different myths might be compared to a multitude of islands, broken up by clear water. […] Looking down magisterially […] a map of myths would present a picture of incomplete coverage, with some areas picked out in significantly more glorious technicolour than others’ (2017, 19). In this paper I will demonstrate some of the ways that we have used MANTO’s data to provide distanced, 'magisterial' visualisations of Greek myth that show the traditions in new lights. These include maps that reveal the hotspots of mythic activity across the Mediterranean; geo-genealogical modelling that expresses the temporal changes wrought on the storyworld through the 26 generations of deep heroic history; and large-scale mapping of the relics left by these stories in the very soil of the Mediterranean.