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Magna Graecia: A City State Quest

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[X] Put aside twenty talents this year for a future expedition[-20 talents, Will not be able to construct multiple buildings in 304 OL due to cost.]
[X] Do not allow leaderless bouloi to run.

 
Professor Vesca said:
Is that trireme accurate and to scale?
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Ironanvil1 said:
That looks rather too hefty to be a trireme.
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Erandil said:
I am reasonably sure that Tiremes are in fact single (or maybe single and a half deck) ships and a far bit smaller than that picture...
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It's an artist's rendition of a Greek explorer's trireme from 300 BCE, from an Encyclopedia Britannica article.

Professor Vesca said:
Huh, ours are bigger then I had imagined.
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Nothing less for our xenoparakletor.
 
We can send our xenoparakletor in something less militaristic when the last Illyrian pirate is dead and the route to Hellas is safe for even a ship laden stem to stern with gold and crewed solely by naked virgins.
 
Publicola said:
Another question: are we going to get a map of the western coast of Greece/Albania? We have a sliver of Albania, but our current map doesn't even include Kerkyra. It looks like the rectangle you're drawing on this map centers on the Aegean, with east coast of Greece and west coast of Asia Minor. Would it be possible to extend this map west, or our other maps east to cover the missing land?
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Heh.

 
Professor Vesca said:
Much more densely packed is right. Holy smokes. So many cities.
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And that's just the ones important enough to show. For instance, it's missing Methone, Dion, Aloros, Mende, Sane (on Pallene), Skione, Apollonia (on the Thermaic Gulf), Therambos, Aige and Neapolis (on the Toronian Gulf coast of Pallene), Olophyxos, and Akrothooi (on Athos).

And that's just in or near the Khalkidiki :V
 
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There are reasons why even centuries later, the Roman Empire considered Greece to be more important than, say, Gaul or Hispania. Part of it is just how much more urban the area was. (And yes, I know that's a gross oversimplification.)
 
Well by the roman era Greece proper became quite poor; it didn't really recover till the early empire. Centuries of war had depopulated the Aegean and the economic wealth had shifted eastwards, to the Anatolian coast, Syria, and Egypt as well as Byzantion.
 
[X] Do not allow leaderless bouloi to run.
[X] Put aside twenty talents this year for a future expedition[-20 talents, Will not be able to construct multiple buildings in 304 OL due to cost.]
 
Cetashwayo said:
Well by the roman era Greece proper became quite poor; it didn't really recover till the early empire. Centuries of war had depopulated the Aegean and the economic wealth had shifted eastwards, to the Anatolian coast, Syria, and Egypt as well as Byzantion.
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That's a good point. Then again, I was conflating two points in history separated by about eight centuries, so it's not very surprising that the details were rather wrong.

Also, can I just say, it's really weird that your username is one letter off from the most common transliteration of the name of a Zulu king, while your avatar is a picture of Cyrus the Great? It gives my brain the hiccups.
 
Godwinson said:
That's a good point. Then again, I was conflating two points in history separated by about eight centuries, so it's not very surprising that the details were rather wrong.

Also, can I just say, it's really weird that your username is one letter off from the most common transliteration of the name of a Zulu king, while your avatar is a picture of Cyrus the Great? It gives my brain the hiccups.
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Just as planned.

Ballista are after the Peloponnesian war as IA said.
 
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