"Rome dreams of eternity , of a eternal city that will never fall, but the gods have demanded that that prize have been earned? Odysseus had to battle and resist forces both divine and mortal to return home to his wife, through harsh and seas and large monsters. Do not think that Prometheus or Jupiter has marked the Roman empire as anything special painted on the backdrop on the canvas of other nations. Parthia. Armenia. the petty kings of the moors. The Gods can just as easily find a new people as it took to coronate us people above peoples if we are not to be careful. "
-Phosphorous -
-Phosphorous -
Lots of people may tell you that Rome was its own independent cultural identity, but it was really under the shadow of ancient Greece. They worshiped mostly the same gods , and made the same sacrifices. Some participated in Greek festivals, such as the Elysian mysteries and even emperors grew obsessed and fascinated with the culture of this ancient civilisation. Its poetry made its way into the halls of emperors and the senate. Its language dictated philosophy. It dominated the sciences. It conquered the field of medicine. The region was the host of large armies and home to great economic potential, lying on the shipping lanes of trade from the black sea and the eastern nations to Rome and the western tract of the empire. They idolised Greek heroes, Alexander the Great , Hercules, Theseus.
But one man would break the monopoly of Greek over the roman world, unintentionally of course, and would usher a new era for Rome, and brought the greatest change the roman empire had ever seen through its existence. He radically shaped thinking at the time, creating an almost cult like school of thought around him that would dominate Europe for the next thousand years, helping to discredit ideas such as spontaneous generation and fundamentally alter biological sciences in other ways. He sponsored expeditions that would bring new food stuffs and animals to the eternal city and the rest of the empire from all three continents, while creating a scientist method that was so simply, yet so robust. His stubborn refusal to publish his findings , and produce literature in the language of the Greeks, would encourage others in his school and across the western side of the empire to do the same, and his experiments produce results that would even help shatter the upper echelons of roman society. [1]
We find his name everywhere. He was the patron and donor of money of hospitals and leper colonies. We find his statue in Rome, in Corintheus [2], in Valentia [3] , in Valentine [4]. We find university blocs dedicated to him in Italia , Geluland [5] , Natanland [6] . He is credited with the invention of the shopping mall. And provoking Roman interest up north, with explorers staking the flag into lands long riddled with ice. But who was the man? Who, not even a ruler embarking on great conquest, helped shape the world in such divergent and ways that changed history forever?
His name , is Phosphorus
And the biological revolution , begins here...
But one man would break the monopoly of Greek over the roman world, unintentionally of course, and would usher a new era for Rome, and brought the greatest change the roman empire had ever seen through its existence. He radically shaped thinking at the time, creating an almost cult like school of thought around him that would dominate Europe for the next thousand years, helping to discredit ideas such as spontaneous generation and fundamentally alter biological sciences in other ways. He sponsored expeditions that would bring new food stuffs and animals to the eternal city and the rest of the empire from all three continents, while creating a scientist method that was so simply, yet so robust. His stubborn refusal to publish his findings , and produce literature in the language of the Greeks, would encourage others in his school and across the western side of the empire to do the same, and his experiments produce results that would even help shatter the upper echelons of roman society. [1]
We find his name everywhere. He was the patron and donor of money of hospitals and leper colonies. We find his statue in Rome, in Corintheus [2], in Valentia [3] , in Valentine [4]. We find university blocs dedicated to him in Italia , Geluland [5] , Natanland [6] . He is credited with the invention of the shopping mall. And provoking Roman interest up north, with explorers staking the flag into lands long riddled with ice. But who was the man? Who, not even a ruler embarking on great conquest, helped shape the world in such divergent and ways that changed history forever?
His name , is Phosphorus
And the biological revolution , begins here...
[1] This is in no way designed to be a simple Roman wank. In fact quite the opposite. Rome will fall, as usual, around the same timeframe. New changes and influences to agriculture , zoology and medicine do not in any way combat the heavy imperial administration and rotting corruption that dominated the later years of the empire. Though i do see it leading to a higher population and ability to feed the city of Rome, which will lead to new dynamics of their own. A huge cultural footprint far bigger then before , more complex dynamics with diseases , and perhaps increased importance of the provinces of Britannia , Gaul and Germania.
[2] Corintheus is the former capital of the Roman Province of Britannia, built on the banks of the river Thames.
[3] Valentia , vulgar Latin for Valencia.
[4] Valentine , in Cumbria, Britannia.
[5] Geluland, the orkneys , named for the ice that develops. The harsh climate proved ultimately unappetising to Roman colonisers.
[6] Natanland, the isles of Scilly, named for the diversity of fish caught off their waters. Not to be confused with Nova Natanland.
[2] Corintheus is the former capital of the Roman Province of Britannia, built on the banks of the river Thames.
[3] Valentia , vulgar Latin for Valencia.
[4] Valentine , in Cumbria, Britannia.
[5] Geluland, the orkneys , named for the ice that develops. The harsh climate proved ultimately unappetising to Roman colonisers.
[6] Natanland, the isles of Scilly, named for the diversity of fish caught off their waters. Not to be confused with Nova Natanland.
