Learning History III

(Alexander the Great.)

See Learning History II.

In an emulated Hellenic milieu with Macedonian hegemony, neither Aristotle nor Alexander was born. Instead, a disciple of Plato called Eumenes taught a conqueror who lived into old age and bequeathed a stable empire. Gaia's purpose was to study a possible ancient scientific-technological revolution.

Laurinda asks to see an epitome scene equivalent to:

King John at Runnymede;
Elizabeth the First knighting Francis Drake;
Einstein and Bohr in conversation.

For a book set in a remote future, Genesis contains a lot of historical references.

Christian and Laurinda stand in a Propylaea. (p. 177) When Flemic soldiers invade Athens, a young woman tries to hide on the Acropolis where no one goes anymore. (p. 180)

Laurinda quotes Alexander Tytler (ibid.)

The amulet informs Christian and Laurinda that this emulation terminates in one more year. Christian is appalled at the ending of millions of lives. Manse Everard wrongly thinks that this will happen when the Carthaginian timeline is deleted in the Time Patrol universe whereas what happens there is not that the temporal dimension of the deleted timeline extends into its equivalent of the twentieth century, then ceases to exist, but that an entire four dimensional universe, complete from its beginning until its end, recedes into the past of a second temporal dimension.

There is yet more history but now my belated lunch break is over.