Re: GSF revisited

On Tue, 08 May 2007, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> Wouldn't then the best scenario be one where (South) Western
> Europe was Graecized rather than Latinized, and
> Παιάνος spoke a "Ephellenic" language derived from
> Greek, and the only classical prestige languageof his Europe
> was Attic and Koiné Greek? The scenario which comes most
> readily to mind is one where Alexander survived and
> proceeded to conquer the west, I think. (Now of course that
> would be an extremely interesting althistory in its own
> right: what would the various Ephellenic languages look
> like, for starters? :-)
>
I believe Arnold Toynbee speculated on a counterfactual along these
lines in his Study of History resulting in a steam age culture
spreading over the Middle East in the first century CE.  One of Greg
Bear's books is partly set in a modern day world along this timeline,
_Eternity_, if I remember offhand.

- andrew.

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