Ancient University Centres

[Imperator Invictus]

Hey guys, I have a question, I'm playing with Pontos, I currently own Asia Minor, Thrace, Scytia and I expand in Egeea, I was wondering in wich cities is best to upgrade academies, and to receive philosophers as ancillaries? .....Pergamon and Rhodes?

[Hax]

Doesn't matter for the game, as far as I know. Amaseia, Antiocheia, Buridava, you can do whatever you like!

[Imperator Invictus]

and if I send a FM there, he will receive some specific traits or ancillaries?

[bobbin]

The only city I know of that has a specific ancillary is Syrakousai where you can pick up Archimedes.

[Imperator Invictus]

:beam: I'm planning to send, in ten years, an expedition to Sicily :turtle:

[Belisarius II]

There's also a way to get a famous Roman poet in Capua I believe.

[Finn MacCumhail]

If the question is about Ancient University Centres, I have a my own question. Dark Island for Casse and may be for other Gauls, Sparta Agoge for western Greeks (or for other Greeks too?). Well are there any similar places for other cultures?

[Macilrille]

Athens always seem to give lots of interesting Ancillaries for Romans...

[Fluvius Camillus]

If the question is about Ancient University Centres, I have a my own question. Dark Island for Casse and may be for other Gauls, Sparta Agoge for western Greeks (or for other Greeks too?). Well are there any similar places for other cultures?

Sparta event worked with my Baktria:sweatdrop:

~Fluvius

[Skullheadhq]

Historically, Athens and Rhodos were the university centres, also Alexandreia was quite good for doctors.

[Macilrille]

Caivs Ivlivs Caesar studied on Rhodes and Marcvs Tvllivs Cicero in Athens and on Rhodes.

[Skullheadhq]

Rhodes and Athens it is, then.

[Fluvius Camillus]

In the early Hellenistic Age, Alexandreia was a huge centre of learning, intellectuals gathered there to share knowledge and made themselves known. It ended when Ptolemaios VIII Euergetes II (Physcon) started killing them and a lot of intellectuals fled the city.

~Fluvius