June 28th

Day 33

Athinai ⇒ Thessaloniki ⇒

I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there, and Queequeg here, and all of us, and every mother's son and soul of us belong; the great and everlasting First Congregation of this whole worshipping world; we all belong to that; only some of us cherish some crotchets no ways touching the grand belief; in that we all join hands. —Herman Melville

Kingdoms come. Kingdoms go. My train rolled north through many kingdoms past. Larissa, Thessaly, Achilles, Mount Olympus, Alexander, Saint Paul, Justinian, Thessaloniki, Macedonia...

Mycenaean	c. 1600 - 1100 BC
Homeric	c. 1100 - 750 BC
Archaic	c. 750 - 500 BC
Classical	c. 500 - 323 BC
Hellene	323 - 146 BC
Roman	146 BC - 330 AD
Byzantium	330 - 1453 AD
Ottoman	1453 - 1832 AD

...but, I missed all of this, for I was asleep by Larissa.

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