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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 875926" data-attributes="member: 5328">G'dayIt would be a great help if you could give some sort of indication of what period you are thinking of. The stories in which gods and their children played a big part are generally set much earlier--in a time of kings and aristocratic states, bronze weapons and armour, and chariots. And the detailed histories are set later--in a time of oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy, iron weapons, bronze or composite armour, and hoplite battles. there is no reason not to do a fusion: later technology and political arrangements, but with gods, demigods, and heroes. But to advise you any further I will need to know what you have in mind.If you're going for mythic Greece you will be interested in Homer, tragic plays, and Mary Renault's Theseus books. If you are going for a more historic Greece you will be interested in Herodotos, parts of Plato and Aristotle, comedies, and Mary Renault's The Last of the Wine.Also, political arrangements, weapons, armour, and ships changed a lot from the time of the Trojan War (?c. 1200 BCE) to the time of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE).One last note: there is reason to believe that the Greek tradition of gallant relations between men and youths originated in Crete, was adopted in Sparta in the 6th century, and spread north as the Spartan mystique grew. In the modern West, paederasty is a crime. In Greece it was part of the education system (at least for the leisured classes), and Crete was probably the centre. Think about how well your players will tolerate this before you decide whether to feature or suppress this detail in your campaign.Regards,</blockquote>

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