haha!
This thread is what I think of every single day. As a future Archaeologist, my top visitations in history would be as follows:
1.) To visit the Roman Principate during the reign of Trajan (who was the greatest emperor in all facilities)
2.) To visit Greece just before the Pelopennesian War (so I could see Athens at her prime, where Hellenistic culture flourished in a golden age). At that time existed all at once: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Pericles (the elder). Imagine meeting so many great men?
3.) I agree with Deep. To meet the man who wrote meditations on being the philosopher-king that he simply titled: 'To Myself'......to hang out and speak with the man of the 'inner citadel' would be amazing! also, his baths (the Baths of Caracalla...his nickname) were quite majestic, and I would love to partake of their waters.
4.) To Ancient Greece cica 467 B.C. to sit in on the first productions of 'Seven Against Thebes' and 'Prometheus Bound' by Aeschylus in Ancient Greece.
5.) To meet and converse with Epicurus and talk at length with him and his students about pleasure and hedonistic ethics.
6.) To travel back to the Roman Pricipate under Nero. Not only would I want to see the revelling and banquets and the famed 'Golden House', but to find out once and for all what kind of man he really was. Academics and scholars now believe he was quite a good ruler. Apparently he neither ordered the death of Christians, nor did he burn Rome. In fact he was in the streets helping to fight the fire at great personal risk....
There are sooo many more, including Charlemagne and visiting the mighty French citadel of 'Carcasoone' in it's heyday, but there are too many for this history enthusiast to list here....
