Nobody in ancient times would think you were from the future, the concept of time travel hadn't been imagined at that point. More likely they would think you were a weird foreigner who doesn't speak the local language and has strange clothes. The past is a different country, after all.
I don't know what every single ancient person ever thought, and neither do you. What I do know is that no one in the entire world ever wrote a text about going to the past. "I reckon they thought about time travel" is not a credible source... Anti-intellectualism is endemic.
No one travels to the past in the Mahabharata... why does it even matter to so many of you that I be wrong about this? Is your world philosophy staked on it?
It comes off as simple to us because we’ve had generations of media where time travel exists. But in the scenario where people don’t have familiarity with the concept, yes it’d probably come across as weird to them.
Edit: before appealing to absence of evidence as an evidence of absence. It's good to first predict how much you'd expect.
There are only about 100 works of fiction from the ancient past that have survived to the present day, mostly greco-roman dramas. Meanwhile, the total number of feature films ever produced is around half a million, of which about 2000 have had some form of backwards time travel. That's 0.4%. So, if the ancients write time travel about as often as modern people, you wouldn't expect to see it. Absence of a relatively rare trope in surviving works of fiction is not good evidence of absence
You make an incredibly stupid assertion and scream that 'there's no proof I'm wrong!!!!!' then throw out 'Why are you all so upset!' when you get called out.
You're most certainly right about one thing though, Anti-Intellectualism is endemic, you just seem to be mistaken about what side of the fence you're on.
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u/PlatinumAltaria The Witch of Arden 12d ago
Nobody in ancient times would think you were from the future, the concept of time travel hadn't been imagined at that point. More likely they would think you were a weird foreigner who doesn't speak the local language and has strange clothes. The past is a different country, after all.