✦ Step one
Choose a week.
Each one a different city, a different rhythm of work and rest, a different set of words for the same human problems.
01 · Italia
PROTAGONIST · OSTIA, dawnTheoretico · render
Imperial Rome
c. 80 CE
“Brick, marble, and the smell of fish sauce.”
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02 · Thebes
TEMPLE · KARNAK, noonTheoretico · render
Ancient Egypt, Ramses II
c. 1250 BCE
“Wheat, beer, and the river that owns everything.”
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03 · Anatolia
SQUARE · HAGIA SOPHIA, morningTheoretico · render
✦ In production
Byzantine Constantinople
c. 950 CE
“A city that calls itself the world.”
World bible · in progress
04 · Kyoto
STREET · KYOTO, cherry blossomTheoretico · render
✦ In production
Heian Japan
c. 1000 CE
“Twelve layers of silk and a thousand poems.”
World bible · in progress
05 · Moscow
BOULEVARD · MOSCOW, winterTheoretico · render
✦ In production
Soviet Union, Late Stalin
1949
“Queues, denunciations, and an apartment for nine.”
World bible · in progress
06 · Wyoming Territory
MAIN STREET · BOOMTOWN, noonTheoretico · render
✦ In production
American West
1876
“A continent of fences being built around you.”
World bible · in progress
07 · Southwark
MARKET · SOUTHWARK, morningTheoretico · render
✦ In production
Tudor London
1588
“Plague, theatre, and a queen who survived everything.”
World bible · in progress
08 · Round City
SOUK · BAGHDAD, middayTheoretico · render
✦ In production
Abbasid Baghdad
c. 800 CE
“Paper, astronomy, and a caliph's library.”
World bible · in progress
In research
Mughal Agra · Song-dynasty Kaifeng · Mali under Mansa Musa · Carthaginian Sicily