Alexander Athanatos

"It is the fourth year of the 199th Olympiad. Alexander the Great still rules a vast empire, stretching across Europe, Asia, and Africa. At least, his genetic material does." Alexander Athanatos; 21 CE4th year of the 199th Olympiad
Current Affairs: Alexander XVIIA clone of the original Alexander is dealing with stagnation and unwelcome news regarding his centuries old Empire
Divergence: c 370 BC; Hippocrates and his followers cause huge advances in medicine
TL: TL2 with biotech up to late TL8/early TL9
Quantum: 5
== History ==
It all begins with Hippocrates, the father of medicine in the West. In this timeline, he goes a bit "mad science" and learns about artificial insemination. His students develop stronger medical poultices through chemistry and develop a divergent form of antibiotics, dubbed nosopharmaka (literally "disease medicines"). The Great School of Medicine keeps this momentum going for a long time, developing basic anatomical theory and tool sterilization. Development of lenses, improvements of glassmaking, and yet-better lenses allowed smaller and smaller work. All genetic technology up to about TL9 follows suit.
=== Timeline ===
Event 	Gregorian Year	Olympiad
First Olympiad 	-776 	Ol. 1,1
Hippocrates develops artificial insemination	-400 	Ol. 95,1
Great Medical School Established 	-306 	Ol. 118,3
Death of Alexander I 	-289 	Ol. 122,4
First in vitro baby 	-216 	Ol. 141,1
First Vaccines 	-152 	Ol. 157,1
Plague of Athens 	-141 	Ol. 159,4
First cloned frog 	-129 	Ol. 162,4
First cloned goat 	-117 	Ol. 165,4
First human clone 	-112 	Ol. 167,1
King Philip VI visits School 	-94 	Ol. 171,3
Humanzees cloned 	-86 	Ol. 173,3
== Trivia ==
* Alexander Athanatos roughly translates to "Alexander Undying"
==References==
* GURPS Bio-Tech, p.217-223
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