Anyway, by the way of Hellenism, and to bring back focus from real history on what I'm going to write in my imaginary timeline, here's the national flag of the modern nation of Bactria.
Of course the Flag of the Empire of the Romans will involve a Double-Headed Eagle. But That's in the process of being done....
Don Grey, I was merely being a smart ass with the plagiarism thing I get what you're saying -- it's the modern Greek view of diachronicity of the Hellenic culture and countless others incorporated that into their timelines on these forums. So don't take that too serious.
But it is my view that nothing's new under the sun so to say. But I did nuanced my view on the Hellenistic component of the Byzantine culture.
As for the democracy thing, plese understand this: I dislike democracy and the idea of parliamentary supremacy repuses me. What I like is a republic - a mixed system of government where you have the demos, the aristocracy and an administration headed by one man, all exerting some influence on running the state. Kind of what the Roman Republic was
supposed to be. Kind of what Cicero and Polybius (a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period - but this guy was really Greek, he was from Arcadia) advocated. And kind of what Jefferson, Madison and co. tried to do within the U.S. Constitution. Believe you me -- I would not like living in Ancient Athens any more than in Ancient Sparta, I'd be banished like Aristoteles or condemened like Socrates. I don't idealise Classical Greece and I don't even idealise the Hellenistic civilisations.
What I do idealise and I am aware of this and of its faults, but I can't help it, is the Christian Greek-speaking Empire of the Romans. Though politically I wouldn't fare much better if I ever lived in those times and places either, with my libertarian views and such.