Well, he was actually a time traveler from the planet Tralfalmador. Kurt Vonnegut wrote all about it.
Why not.
After all the Roman Empire did not exist. We are actually living in the year 1726 and there used to be an empire in Europe called tartain or something that was wiped out so the Rothchilds could take over their banking system, birds are all robots.....
Could someone ping me when my ride back to reality is here? I really want to go home.