Discussion Main / AlloHistoricalAllusion

I think there should be some clarifications posted regarding fan works that reference canon or works that reference alternate continuities. Do those go under here or under Mythology Gag, since I've seen cases of both?

Based on how the trope is described, it seems examples must reference Real Life events that didn't happen in a work. Thus, fan works referencing canon and works referencing alternate continuities would go under Mythology Gag, meaning the Fan Works section of Allohistorical Allusion is due for cleanup.

I've been trying to track the original source of "a failed prophet living at 4 Railway Cuttings, Nazareth." Arnold Toynbee did write an essay in "Some Problems in Greek History" speculating about the further life of Alexander the Great ("If Alexander the Great had Lived on") which mentions Heron creating steam-powered ships and other vehicles at the request of Alexander XIII, but there's no explicit mention of a failed prophet. Toynbee only says, regarding the building of a Nile-Euphrates railway, that "The building of the section that ran through the Valley of Esdraelon must have been watched, from the southern brow of the Galilean hill-country, by a boy whose father was a carpenter at Nazareth."

The specific wording in the trope page seems to come from a reference to Toynbee's essay in "The Book of General Ignorance", by John Mitchinson and John Lloyd.

re: cutlist

There seems to be a trope here. Perhaps delete and run it through YKTTW.