Now everyone who’s reading this post would be thinking: “What does Uchronia mean?
Uchronia is a
parallel course of history different from the original one only for a single
event which takes a different course.
This word comes
from the Greek words “ou” (no) and
“kronos” (time).
There are a lot of
examples of these parallel universes: the most famous is the one in which Nazi
Germany wins the second World War. The famous novel “The Man in the High
Castle” imagines this specific Uchronia.
Another Uchronia is
the “Immortal Roman Empire” in which the Roman Empire never declined and is
still alive nowadays. The trilogy of “Romanitas” is set in a dystopian world
where slavery is still legal and criminals are crucified.
The more
interesting fact about Uchronia is that you don’t have to be a historian or a
writer to make your own. Anyone knowing
some history can imagine their own: “What would have happened if Napoleon had won
the battle of Waterloo?”, “It would be the same if Muslims had won the battle
of Poitiers?”, or “If Longbeards had conquered the Vatican?”. Obviously we will
never know, we can only make hypothesis.
For example, I’m
trying to write (just for fun) a story set in a Uchronian world in which
Pausanias of Sparta succeed in changing the constitution of Sparta and makes it
become a Republic similar to the Roman one. I’ll tell you more on another
occasion. For now, that is all.
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FRANCESCO G.
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