Epoch Lives

History through the eyes of the forgotten

Not the kings. Not the generals. Not the artists who got the credit.
You. A commoner. One day at a time.

Choose your life
Where will you live?
Lorenzo de' Medici rules. Leonardo paints. Savonarola preaches fire and damnation from the pulpit. You bake bread near the Ponte Vecchio and try to keep your head down. It is getting harder.
1490 — 1500 Florence, Italy Play now
The walls have held for a thousand years. You repair them. You know every crack, every patch, every prayer carved into the stone by men long dead. Today, the Ottoman cannons arrive.
1453 Constantinople Coming soon
The empire is dying. You can feel it in the bread that costs more each week, in the soldiers who drink more than they drill, in the silence where the grain ships used to sound their horns.
405 — 415 AD Rome Coming soon