The Wizard
11-12-2003, 22:05
Let's say, that some scientist or another has created a time machine, and you could go to a time period for an unlimited time, and you could also be zapped back in an instant, should you desire to do so.
So, where would you travel in:
The Ancient Period (Myceneans, Cretans, New Kingdom, Hittites, etc.), the period of all the great Greek epics?
The Classical Greek Period of Athenian domination?
The Hellenistic Age, after Alexander the Great's death?
The time of the Roman Empire, under the rule of Emperor Trajan?
Personally, I'd prefer to travel to the famous locations of the Greek myths in the period of the Myceneans: Mycenea, Knossos, Troy (before its eventual destruction), Thebe, Thrace, the sites of Hercules' twelve acts, Mt. Olympus, and the place the Argonauts travelled to (the furthest stretch of the Greek world in the time, along the Caspian Sea as most suspect).
In the Classical Greek period, I'd visit Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Cyprus (the city), Nice, Ionia, and the Persian Empire.
In the Hellenistic age, I'd follow in Alexander's footsteps, from Macedonia to Greece, to Asia Minor and Persia, from Egypt to the land to the east of the Caspian Sea, into Parthia and continuing on into India, only to continue my travels and reach China http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
In the time of Trajan, I'd love to visit Rome (of course), Gaul, Germania Inferior, Brittanica, Hibernia, Corinth, Cyprus, Roman Carthage, what was then mere Byzantion, Antioch, the Bosphoric realm, and then travel due east, entering Parthia and then travelling to China once more, to admire the period not long before the Three Kingdoms
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So, where would you travel in:
The Ancient Period (Myceneans, Cretans, New Kingdom, Hittites, etc.), the period of all the great Greek epics?
The Classical Greek Period of Athenian domination?
The Hellenistic Age, after Alexander the Great's death?
The time of the Roman Empire, under the rule of Emperor Trajan?
Personally, I'd prefer to travel to the famous locations of the Greek myths in the period of the Myceneans: Mycenea, Knossos, Troy (before its eventual destruction), Thebe, Thrace, the sites of Hercules' twelve acts, Mt. Olympus, and the place the Argonauts travelled to (the furthest stretch of the Greek world in the time, along the Caspian Sea as most suspect).
In the Classical Greek period, I'd visit Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Cyprus (the city), Nice, Ionia, and the Persian Empire.
In the Hellenistic age, I'd follow in Alexander's footsteps, from Macedonia to Greece, to Asia Minor and Persia, from Egypt to the land to the east of the Caspian Sea, into Parthia and continuing on into India, only to continue my travels and reach China http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
In the time of Trajan, I'd love to visit Rome (of course), Gaul, Germania Inferior, Brittanica, Hibernia, Corinth, Cyprus, Roman Carthage, what was then mere Byzantion, Antioch, the Bosphoric realm, and then travel due east, entering Parthia and then travelling to China once more, to admire the period not long before the Three Kingdoms
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