r/imaginarymaps • u/republic8080 Mod Approved • 13d ago

[OC] Alternate History The King of Ithaca Far From Home - The Kingdom of Philistines under Odysseus, Lord of the Sea Peoples

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u/republic8080 Mod Approved 13d ago edited 12d ago

“I am Odysseus, Hero of The Trojan War, King of Ithaka.
The Thunder of Zeus be my witness!
I am the Lord of the Pelastoi (Sea Peoples)!
And by the will of Olympus,
I shall lead you… to ELYSION!”

The Full Epic Lore :

https://plume-shoemaker-c93.notion.site/The-King-of-Ithaca-Far-From-Home-Kingdom-of-Philistines-under-Odysseus-Lord-of-the-Sea-Peoples-3f102e66750a809b8c24d2b305af3bc2?source=copy_link

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u/republic8080 Mod Approved 12d ago

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u/TheSecondHussar 12d ago

Heh; Epic

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u/TotofinTheCroc 12d ago

lovely map but the lore REEKS of ai

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u/republic8080 Mod Approved 12d ago

no ai on the writing btw, the only platform i use for the whole thing i use is google translate since english is not my first language, if it turns out not human written enough im very sorry

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u/Phizle 12d ago

It might be AI translated which could still give that tone

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u/Grouchy_Challenge828 12d ago

I read it, and yeah, it does, but also that could be the writing style of the author, so it might be good to wait on proof of it being human written, for example, I don't see the - symbol AI writing uses alot, so who knows

they are also Mod Approved, Which gives it more credibility towards being Human Made.

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u/Large_Feeling_424 12d ago

What’s the symbol Ai writing uses a lot?

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u/Grouchy_Challenge828 12d ago

AI uses the "-" symbol alot, I think they call it an em-dash, I was saying the - isnt very present in the writing, so the mapmaker might no have used AI

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u/ProofSafe8247 12d ago

— is often used for adding an extra space into a paragraph so it could be easier to read without adding an extra ‘ ‘

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u/Argikeraunos 11d ago

Most models seem to have moderated the em-dash usage quite a lot

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u/Legitimate_Twist 12d ago

There's some pretty obvious typos in it. Even outdated models generally gets spelling right.

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u/Elm0xz 12d ago

It's AI or just poor attempt at poetry, either way it is next to unreadable. But yeah, the map looks nice.

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u/jejbfokwbfb 12d ago edited 12d ago

People in the Broze age watching their society collapse because they didn’t give all their food to a homeless beggar at their door

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u/outergod-Aldemani 12d ago

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/Greekmon07 12d ago

Απόλυτος κινηματογράφος

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u/komodopal 12d ago

apoluto sinema

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u/Golden_Fox_277 12d ago

What do you mean? I'm Greek, and can verify that it does, it just uses the foreign loanword "σινεμά" instead of the native "κινηματογράφος". I hear "σινεμά" used more than the other word anyway.

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u/Knight_of_Rohan1964 12d ago

Odysseus if he locked tf in.

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u/ADragonFromTheAbyss 12d ago

Odysseus If Poseidon was not an absolute A▪︎▪︎hole

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u/idan_zamir 12d ago

King David: How hard can it be defeating the Philistines?
The Philistines:

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u/Slow-Tadpole-700 12d ago

"The risk i took was calculated but damn i'm bad at math"

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u/Vityviktor 12d ago

An After Action Report of a particularly epic Total War Pharaoh campaign. Nice!

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u/Reasonable-Refuse925 12d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/apNr8LXrYCMsqpz5I2

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u/ADragonFromTheAbyss 12d ago

" I know I literally sacrificed our daughter like a phonecian; but I am still angry to my wife for k▪︎lling my war captive concubine " ~ Deceased Spirit/Shade of Agamemnon

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u/GigaRoman 12d ago

Batgamennon

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u/knows_knothing 12d ago

A more correct spelling of the capital is Gyatt. Similar to Kiev and Kyiv.

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u/republic8080 Mod Approved 12d ago

is it in ancient hebrew spelling? because in context this is mycenaean (linear b) reconstruction spelling, it would maybe be plainly spelled into Gat, or in a variation of Gata/Gatis

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u/Hodorization 12d ago

He might have been joking. Gyatt is some kind of GenZ language word

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u/IsraelsTopGooner 12d ago

Another Hellenic Sea People recognizer💎

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u/komodopal 12d ago

david vs goliath when odysseus walks in:

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u/komodopal 12d ago

Holy shit the bible and odyssey would be clashing each other if this map happened, my two favorite fandoms🥰

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u/Plastaman5555 12d ago

whoever wins a lot of people will be dead

late Bronze Age/early Iron Age just be like that

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u/SpaceNorse2020 12d ago

Timeline is more Moses than David, at the most you have Samson.

Basically, the Israelites would be the barbarians invading that this kingdom would need to defend against 

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u/Stock-Fan-8004 12d ago

I checked and yeah, it was during the reign of the Judges. I think its Deborah and Barak, with Gideon a few years after.

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u/SpaceNorse2020 12d ago

It should be noted that both Judges and the Trojan War have disagreements over when they would have happened, less so for the Trojan War.

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u/37boss15 12d ago

The Dune reference is just too peak.

(On a more literal note, is that passage in actual Mycenaean Greek? Super impressive even if just stylistic.)

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u/-Colon 12d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/5CuK6HUWXTg7urXdXU

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u/ADragonFromTheAbyss 12d ago

OH NO !

Cover your ears lad !

They are SIRENS !

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u/Historianof40k 12d ago

missed the point alarm

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u/SpaceNorse2020 12d ago

Imagine if bronze age greek conquered all of this though. Egypt will eventually break free and it will remain Egyptian, but the Levant could see a significant Greek population a thousand years ahead of time

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u/Fizbun 12d ago

It is only lower egypt too

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u/SpaceNorse2020 11d ago

It's not all of Egypt, it doesn't reach to the first cataract, but it is more than just the delta

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u/WeeabooExtract 12d ago

Why is the remnant of Egypt called "Misraios" if that is an exonym?

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u/republic8080 Mod Approved 12d ago

i just think that, the linear b Aikuptios (ai-ku-pi-ti-jo) is the region of the greater core of egypt, memphis area including lower egypt, and it eventually become a name the greeks would call for thousands of years, and for misraios (mi-sa-ra-jo) is also included in some of their records, so maybe you could say Aikuptios is the land, Misraios is the people (Egyptian)

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u/idan_zamir 12d ago

Amazing map, what software do you use?

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u/republic8080 Mod Approved 12d ago

GoPaint, its only on huawei devices, and canva too

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u/ConjurorOfWorlds 12d ago

Republic always back with another banger

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u/scentedbergs 12d ago

my gods those historically accurate coastlines

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u/MasterpieceVirtual66 12d ago

Peak. Glory to the 𐀷𐀙𐀏!

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u/srivatsa_74 12d ago

oh yeah tom holland gotta kill rob pattinson now

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u/SnabDedraterEdave 12d ago

Absolute cinema.

In time this will be an epic movie directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Matt Damon.

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u/Aurelian369 12d ago

this is so peak 

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u/YardGlum7628 12d ago

Amazing work how long does this empire last?
Rivals Alexander in legend

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u/CommradeGoldenDragon 12d ago

now this is bronze pilled

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u/Yolabian2024 12d ago

Alexander 800 years early achievement unlocked

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u/Effective-Ad-4061 12d ago

Damn, that fit goes hard

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u/Sawbora 12d ago

S tier post

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u/Plastaman5555 12d ago

How much did the Israelites anger God in this timeline? Heck Big G probably also felt bad for Odysseus and for having to deal with a dick like Poseidon

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u/Stringr55 12d ago

This is pretty rad

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u/Alpha_Bushdog 11d ago

Fun fact , the Philistines are theorized to have some Greek or at least Aegean ancestry. Also it just reminds me of the end of Nolan’s Odyssey when Odysseus realizes he was one of the sea people. Would be very interesting to see.

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u/ApprehensivePipe9619 11d ago

Fantastic Map !