I WANT TO BE A ROMAN

[tlclark]

If one can go back with a time machine, there are basically two options:

The one is plunging fully into the life then, woving oneself into the spatiotemporal web, and becoming part of the past. In this case, given that you have managed to place yourself at an elevated place in society, you would almost certainly revolutionize the ancient world by your know how. Even modest knowledge of basic mechanical principles like the crane, crank, blast furnace, lugsail and the counterweight trebuchet would change the trajectory of world history radically. One would be the butterfly whose wing flaps would loose hurricanes on the path of humanity.

The other is, trying to become deeply involved with the acting and thinking of the people and society then, again probably by getting a high post in the imperial bureaucracy or as far trading merchant, BUT paying utmost attention to not influence the time by importing modern technologies or ways of thinking. Just like a laboratorian goes into a sealed chamber aseptically cleaned.

Then you would sit down and write the history of the time and people then in the most objective manner you can manage, bury the manuscripts in the sands of Egypt and wait 2000 years for some lucky archaeologists to unearth them. Such a way one could describe and analyze past history without changing the path itself. Definitely, if I happen to stumble over a time machine on my return from office, I would do this.

Farewell......... 8)

Actually, there is a science fiction story just like this, except he goes back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. He writes his story in mud deposits he knows will one day become shale.

Personally, I would live my life as I choose since I don't believe you can mess up the future. If you do change the timeline, you've just created a parallel universe, so no worries!

Travis

[Matt Lukes]

The thing is that if you use a time machine, unless it is damaged as is the plot device that is so often used in science fiction, you could just come back any old time- bringing back information if nothing else, yes?

Crichton's Timeline has an archaeologist who goes back in time leaving his spectacles and a note (I think) in a medieval site he knows his team is excavating... and one of them ends up having been fascinated by his own sarcophagus LOL

[Jona Lendering]

Crichton's Timeline has an archaeologist who goes back in time leaving his spectacles and a note (I think) in a medieval site he knows his team is excavating... and one of them ends up having been fascinated by his own sarcophagus LOL

And of course there's Gore Vidal's [amazon]Life from Golgotha[/amazon]: utterly offensive for the commercialized Christianity of US televangelists, and extremely funny. Vidal's self-portrait as a decadent Roman is a little gem too.

[Matt Lukes]

For sure. In the last decade or so, thanks in large part to Star Trek, time travel has become the most OVERused sci-fi topic there is :lol: I'm as sick of it as I am about hearing about the Prime Directive that clearly no one takes seriously :lol:

[ARRIVS]

Hey! Why not just grow up and get a life!? Those bad old days are long
past and thank goodness! You are LUCKY to live now in the 21st Century
when so much is available to you! Nowadays dressing up in a skirt and
pretending to be a Roman is a hobby, a pastime, a casual diversion.

[Matt Lukes]

Indeed just being able to live the fun bits and not have to deal with the unpleasantries of everyday life in ancient times is a good thing

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

As already told tons of times e in these five (?) years of life of this forum, it's indeed a matter of points of view... How for anyone of us the "Golden Age" ought to be? And what "Golden Age" really means? 8)

Valete

[Virilis]

Daniele, is that a Deepeeka Deurne helmet on your head on your Avatar?

[FAVENTIANVS]

Have you modifyed it?

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

Yes, it's just the usual Deepeeka Deurne. I've bought it on last spring to modify it when I'll have time enough. I've bought a Deepeeka Burgh Castle helmet too as base for two options:

1) to modify it as a jeweled Berkasovo with a true gilded finish with stones and murrinas

2) to make a feathers crested Burgh Castle helmeth (no actual evidences though, except for the holes on the ridge of an Intercisa one, if I'm not wrong...)

Valete

[FAVENTIANVS]

Pics please!!! :o

[Virilis]

Pics, pics, pics, PLEEEAAASEEE :wink: !

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

Sorry guys, but as told above, the helmets are not modified yet. I'll modify them when I'll have time enough and seen I've not a laboratory at home to work on it I have to make my equipment in my balcony when the weather is good and few tools, moreover due to my wife's remostrances, when I start to do something, I must complete it very quickly and without interruptions as I did for the Vienne event in June, it means working after dinner time. If I had a small sticky laboratory in garage or cellar, I could subdivide the work an planning longlasting projects like those helmet modifications. Even if the crested Burgh Castle one should be a quick work.

Anyway I want to modify the equipment in time for the next event in Vienne (june 2007) organized by the friend of mine François Gilbert of Pax Augusta (Lugdunum). Loads of Germans to fight !

About my present equipment, even if very lacking and needing of tons of improvements, I ll do soon some decent pics and I'll post it in the "impressions" thread just for testing and suggestions.

Valete,

[Robert Vermaat]

Hi Daniele,

You can always post the pics that you posted on the French forum?

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

Yes, I can, why not?







In the last pic I am the one with the Deurne helmet, before me it's my brother in a Marcus Aurelius' army centurion impression.

Valete,