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[brodie]

*scuffs foot* I still think it's the Gulf viewed from Delphi.

[snurge]

I'm desperately trying to tie in the coastline and the Olympics.
For the Gulf of Corinth i found the following.

Corinth, Isthmus of, c.20 mi (32 km) long and 4–8 mi (6.4–12.9 km) wide, connecting central Greece (Attica and Boeotia) with the Peloponnesus, between the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf. It is crossed by the Corinth Canal, built between 1881 and 1893, which connects the Aegean and the Adriatic seas. Parallel to the canal are ruins of the ancient Isthmian Wall, which was restored (3d–6th cent. A.D.) by Byzantine emperors to defend the Peloponnesus. Near the eastern end of the wall are ruins of the sanctuary of Poseidon where the Isthmian games were played.

Some interesting info about the Isthmian Wall/Games and also about Poseidon?
I guess this would leave plenty of room for the training to take place if it held the Isthmian games.

Again, just my ramblings

[Troag Lee]

[jasper]

[Gerri]

[aceituna]

So minor brain wave... I'm just about running out the door this omrning and don't have time to look into it but... I looked up a rail map of europe, and tried to compare to our locations... I didn't have enough time to check them all out, but from a preliminary glance it seems that the locations can all be reached by the rail line... Sorry if this is ignorant I just don't have the time now to investigate further. here is a link though to the site with the map

http://tinyurl.com/3a53ax

Edit - shrunk long url ~ myf

[jasper]

That sounds useful!
Principal Railway and Steamship Routes in Central Europe and the Meditteranean, 1910:
http://etc.usf.edu/Maps/pages/1700/1799/1799.htm

[mr.judkins]

[filipeacaeiro]

[brodie]

Who here has seen chapter ten from Buenos Aires? It talks about Parallel Geography; a basic summary is that all the worlds must connect for athletic synchronisation, but this is harder than you'd think. There could be dramatic changes in the geography of different worlds. Paris on one world could be the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in another, or the top of Mt. Everest, and so on.

Basically, a world needs to choose at least six training sites to connect them to as many worlds as possible. Sofia are responsible for co-ordinating this; the event must be synchronised within the six sites of one world and with the other sites of many worlds.

Six sites, eh? Six pictures in the Shanghai documents... six sites... and also the six co-ordinates on Monica's postcard... six agonothetai... six continents - whoops, sorry, did I say that? I meant five. Or did I?

So, co-ordinating the sites. Big job. Anyone know the phone number of my counterpart in the next world? It could come in handy right now. Maybe B-Brodie knows more than I do... who'm I kidding? Ariadne probably knows more than I do, and she's got amnesia .

[x-posted to Monica's Postcard thread]

[Troag Lee]

[pallada]

Well, take a look at this picture. It is the acheological cite of Ireon, in Corinth. I found it on a Greek site, and will try to give a translation of the importance of Ireon in the games of Delphi. It seams that the olympic truce took place there.

[jasper]

I like Corinth too. I keep trying to make the outline of this hill http://www.corinthopera.gr/en/site.html line up with something in the picture. The text of the chapter tells us they practiced at an archaelogical site