Nearly 100 km a day??? Did they already had modern bicycles?
I wonder if they modeled that fast option after Tiberius’s rush to reach dying Drusus.
Hey I live in Luguvallium
The world was bigger back then.
There weren’t any boats between Greece and Alexandria? If there were, that stretch of the journey between Corinth and Berenice seems like an arbitrary extension.
Man was it ever expensive. 4900 denarii was enormous. IIRC a soldier earned 108 denarii in the late Republic and 250 before rampant inflation in the third century AD.
And how much time was an information traveling by pigeons?
this assumes favorable offerings were made to Triton
The Roman empire was kinda like Europe in a Beta-Tester phase and not USK friendly
I wonder why docking in the Levant and crossing by land until the Nile is better than docking in the Alexandria and getting the Nile from there.
And from Berenice you could get direct ship to India.
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You can also see the approximate cost of this journey.
Link to the program: https://orbis.stanford.edu/
Nearly 100 km a day??? Did they already had modern bicycles?
I wonder if they modeled that fast option after Tiberius’s rush to reach dying Drusus.
Hey I live in Luguvallium
The world was bigger back then.
There weren’t any boats between Greece and Alexandria? If there were, that stretch of the journey between Corinth and Berenice seems like an arbitrary extension.
Man was it ever expensive. 4900 denarii was enormous. IIRC a soldier earned 108 denarii in the late Republic and 250 before rampant inflation in the third century AD.
And how much time was an information traveling by pigeons?
this assumes favorable offerings were made to Triton
The Roman empire was kinda like Europe in a Beta-Tester phase and not USK friendly
I wonder why docking in the Levant and crossing by land until the Nile is better than docking in the Alexandria and getting the Nile from there.
And from Berenice you could get direct ship to India.