A follow-up to my post earlier today:
Technically, the rendering shows the city as it was in 390AD, during the reign of Constantine. The main characters in my book–Hannibal, Fabius and Scipio–lived 600 years earlier. But who cares. Just wallow in your imagination and picture Fabius and Scipio arguing here, Scipio Triumphing here, …..
My imagination is creating an early Star Trek episode where, for some reason, we’re on a planet that looks like the set from Ben Hur. All the people have dissapeared. The tricorder is getting some mighty strange readings, though. And there’s no place to eat.
Oh boy, Mr Crotchety. That’s not the image we were aiming for, is it? I must ponder a way to guide you back….