basically, anything that makes me go, "Oo, history!"

heh, indeed! And welcome to the comm!

I'd always had the impession that Attolia was pure fantasy, and Googling it again now, Wikipedia seems to agree with me - it's a fantasy world based on some ancient Greek stuff, but not Ancient GReek + magic? Does that sound right to you? (If so, I'll leave it off. I'm not entirely sure where the line lies here, but I think that's fairly on the other side, I think.)