What got you into the period?

[Tancredii]

And I don't mean the first time you had sex with a women during her curse........

My dad (God rest his soul) bought me the Peter Connolly book "Greek Armies". Since then I have been captured by this period of history. I think it was a little light on history but had great pictures which I still see crop up in later books.

[Horst Nordfink]

My primary school teacher bought me a history book that had a good bit about Ancient Greeks and Romans when I left for secondary school. She was probably my biggest influence academically.

[Ibrahim]

I'm just curious about the world (other interests: dinosaurs, S.y.war, religion, astronomy, chemistry, etc)

the world is one rich place; vbest to explore as much of it before I kick the bucket.

[Justinian II]

I'm just curious about the world (other interests: dinosaurs, S.y.war, religion, astronomy, chemistry, etc)

the world is one rich place; vbest to explore as much of it before I kick the bucket.

That's pretty much my identical view; I admit, I was captivated by the cheesy shows about the roman army on the History Channel.

Hey, I was 14. I didn't know any better back then:-P

[DeathEmperor]

Well when I was growing up I was always into anything related to Greek mythology (Herakles was my favorite hero though I called him Hercules like most people back then ), but it wasn't until I read a chapter about Alexander the Great in my middle school history book that I went over from Greek mythology to Greek history.

I was just drawn into learning more about Alexander when I saw the similarities between myself and him (tense, to the say the least, relationship between his parents, close relationship with his mother etc.), and it was the desire to learn more about him that eventually led me to learn more about Greek history and that of the Ancient World.

So in short: Megas Alexandros

[Conradus]

I have always been fascinated by ancient mythology: Greek or Egyptian. Naturally a passion for ancient history -and history in general followed-, first Age of Empires might have something to do with it. Devoured most of the books I had on the subject. RTW brought me back to ancient history and EB pulled me in even further. Though I'm a heretic now, haven't played EB in months.

[amyntas]

My brother showed me a map of the late Roman Empire one day. I was just a kid back then, but instantly got interested in how this empire came to be. The more I read about Rome, the more I wanted to know what was going on with all the other peoples...so it was kind of self-evolving

[Tiberius Nero]

Study of Greek and Latin; eventually to understand the languages better one has to familiarize one's self with the general cultural background.

[Uticensis]

In middle school I got Warry's "Warfare in the Classical World", and from there I was hooked, on just on warfare, but everything ancient.

[Long lost Caesar]

Horrible Histories. That series probably started me off

[skuzzy]

It happens monthly. I have absolutely no control over it but I have come to accept it.

[Megas Pyrrhos]

My 7th grade teacher. In order to illustrate ancient Greek cities/government/politics, he had our class break up into groups..forget how many...one was Corinth, one was Athens, and one was Sparta (my group). After we had a competition to see which group could make the best toga's, Sparta went on to achieve victory in other competitions over the rest of the cities. I even made a model of a triere/trireme for that class. Fun.

[anubis88]

First time i played RTW

[Tancredii]

I dont suppose any of you have found out how to stop being interested in the EB period and not lose hours of your lives conquering and slaughtering (oh okay and building benign civilisations)??

[Torvus]

First time i played RTW

I second that motion.

[delablake]

I am Roman by birth...

[General Appo]

Well, I am not certain, but my interest was probably first awoke actually when I first played RTW. I didn´t become a real hardcore antiquity fan until I started reading Goldsworthy´s books though, which I don´t even remember how I got. Might have been as a gift, might have bought it myself.

[lobf]

My dad is an American history teacher, which helped my general interest in history. Then in 7th grade I got Age of Empires 2, which got me interested in Medieval history, which simply led to me learning as much as I could about European history. And I discovered that i liked ancient history is much more than Medieval history.

[Dhampir]

I'm not particularly interested in the period, just the game.

My area of professional study is military history with particular emphasis on the 19th Century.

[Pezlu]

Well, apart from EB my interest in the period is somewhat limited.

I'm an avid reader of historical novels (which sometimes contains some influences from fantasy or from myth), my studies have NOTHING to do with history (I'm studying biology), so ancient history is no more than an hobby for me.

However, I'm curious, so I prefer to learn something playing a game that is actually historically accurate rather than vanilla RTW

So, EB rocks!