Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

"The real 'siege attacker'!"

——Lincius of Samos on Lamia, the mistress of Demetrius “the besieger”

Although King Demetrius did not capture Philip during last year's northward offensive, he did gain tens of thousands of elite soldiers who had experienced battles. Compared with their direct role on the battlefield, these people could also increase the Antigonid family's strength. a say in Macedonian affairs.

In addition, he also gained several important towns such as Chalcis, and forced the Aetolian League and the Boeotian League to abandon Cassander and establish an alliance with him.

——The covenant of the Greeks, in the eyes of Pyrrhus or most people at that time, it was just a piece of paper.

However, Demetrius was unparalleled in the Greek world for a while. When he returned to the army, he announced with a high profile that he would grant freedom and rights to all Greeks south of Thermopylae!

Unfortunately, he never caught up with the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Because he got the month of the Athenian calendar wrong.

The Eleusinian Mysteries were religious festivals held annually by the Atticans at Eleusis, west of Athens, mainly to please Demeter, the goddess of fertility, and Persephone, the queen of the underworld.

Persephone, the daughter of the goddess of fertility, only stayed on the ground for six months a year, responsible for the germination and growth of seeds.The Eleusinian rituals are also divided into initiation rituals during spring sowing and formal ceremonies during autumn harvest according to the time of the goddess' coming and going.

The initiation ceremony is probably in February of the Gregorian calendar, August of the Athenian calendar - because the Athens year starts from the summer solstice - the formal ceremony is in August of the Gregorian calendar, February of the Athenian calendar.

Demetrius confused the Athenian calendar with the commonly used Ephesian calendar.So when he returned to Athens, the formal ceremony was over.

It cannot be said that De Shao was uneducated. It was really that the calendar in the Greek world was too chaotic. Great scholars such as Thucydides and Xenophon also made complaints about this.

Basically every city-state like this will develop its own calendar.

Each city-state's calendar is based on its own astronomical basis - although astronomers have a unified understanding, not every city-state implements the latest standards;

The names of the twelve months in each city-state are each called their own - most peoples in this era do not use ordinal numbers to represent months, and even China is in the process of transformation at this time;

Each city-state has its own unique starting month of the year - for example, Sparta and Delphi both start the new year with the autumnal equinox, but the actual time is one month different...

Not to mention the strange customs and habits of big months, small months, leap months and leap days.

It is no wonder that pseudo-historians question the authenticity of Greek history.I guess those ancient Greek scholars, even if they did careful research when compiling history, still had to doubt the accuracy of the historical materials left by their predecessors, right?

Demetrius got the month of the Athenian calendar wrong, but there were people around him who knew how to do it. Hieronymus and Aristodemus were both cultural people, but they all tacitly chose to pretend in order to get him to withdraw his troops. Deaf and dumb.

"Ahaha, we all made a mistake..."

Dmitri seemed very disappointed.

But how could Athens disappoint its great benefactor?

As soon as Demetrius returned to Athens, he returned several fortresses built by the Macedonians to the Athenians, not to mention the grain, gold, silver, and warships he sent when he first rescued Greece.

Now there are many people in Athens who want to please him.

Stratocoli is the number one licker among them.

This man came up with a brilliant idea to make the benefactor happy. After Demetrius attended the spring initiation ceremony of Aesilius, he pushed the citizens' assembly to vote to exchange the names of February and August in the Athenian calendar, so that he could Attend a formal ceremony.Although we still have to wait until spring, you can get double the happiness at once!

This is the rare opportunity that Demo Charles said...

In order to repay the favor, even the continuity of time and space was broken!

Is this reasonable?

This is so reasonable!

After all, more extreme things have already been done.

——The Athenians have already held a meeting and decided to let the German stallion move into the apse of the Parthenon and live under the same roof as the Virgin Goddess!

Not only himself, but also all his wives, concubines, lovers, courtesans... Eurydice, Cadmea, Lamia, Chryses, Demo, etc. Antisela, Sai Jinhua, Sai Diaochan, Ruyan, Ruyun, Rushi, Shishi, Bingbing, Yuanyuan, Xiaoxiao, Xiaowan, Xiaofengxian, Xiaotaohong...

In short, after Pyrrhus heard the news, he felt that even an atheist like him was a little bit intolerable.

Can you have some respect for your beliefs?

At the same time, I also understood why Charles Demo was unwilling to come back.

It was really the Athenians and the Germans who went too far.If he comes back and doesn't say a word about these bad things, his soul will not be able to pass the test; if he dares to say a word, he will definitely offend the public and his body will be unable to pass the test.

Just stay in Lamia and join forces outside the country.

**

It is said that Pyrrhus was a poor man in his previous life and had no chance to travel abroad. He is also not well-off in this life. As a beggar when he came to Athens last time, he never had the chance to take a walk around the Acropolis.

But Deidamia would definitely not come, and Troas pouted and did not want to see Demetria and Cadmia, so Pyrrhus had to come by himself.

Along the way to the Acropolis Hill, in front of us is the Parthenon, facing east from the west.

——Haha, the Parthenon is still a virgin.——The pediment on the front is embossed with a strange scene of the goddess emerging from Zeus's head.

The elegant and minimally decorated giant columns are all white marble from Pentelicus Mountain. At this time, they have not experienced 2000 years of weathering, and their carefully polished outer surfaces are crystal clear.

The pillars are almost 10 meters high. Although it is only about three stories high, the stone hall supported by the huge 8x17 stone pillar array is still very spectacular to look at.

Pyrrhus climbed up the steps and was almost blinded the moment he walked into the main door!

Facing the main entrance in the hall is a long pool, and the bottom of the pool and the ground next to it are evenly covered with smooth bronze mirrors. The sunlight coming in from the door of the hall illuminates the entire front hall with splendor!

Needless to say, the huge white pillars connecting the sky and the earth in the reflection, the golden and milky Athena statue at the end of the temple is even more dazzling and dazzling!

The assistant who led the way said happily: "Thanks to King Pyrrhus for your invention of this large bronze mirror, the decorative effect is great! The goddess must like it very much! Next we are going to install bronze mirrors on all the walls..."

"..."

Pyrrhus suddenly remembered that Lamia's Xicheng District still lacked a KTV.

"However, the reflection of the mirror affects the visual effect of the large column. We have invited the great architect Sostrat to make fine adjustments."

After the assistant's prompting, Pyrrhus discovered that only the middle two rows of pillars in the hall were vertical, and the other pillars were slightly tilted towards the central axis...

This……

It's just...

Fuck!Awesome!

While admiring, Pyrrhus also secretly remembered the name Sostrat. Those who are qualified to repair the Parthenon must be rare talents. Lamia Construction Group must have a place for such talents!

When entering the apse, Pyrrhus looked carefully at the tall statue of the goddess.

She was taller than the pillar, probably close to a four-story building.

He wears a slanted robe, a Corinthian helmet on his head, and a Medusa half-cuirass hanging on his chest. He holds a spear in one hand to support the shield, and the other hand supports the goddess of victory.

The exposed skin is pure white ivory, and the clothes, weapons, armor, and the statue of the Goddess of Victory in his hands are all covered with smooth gold foil.

This color scheme...this texture...

It’s not that it’s bad, it just doesn’t look like the Greek stone sculptures in the general impression, but looks like a limited edition next-generation cyber-bionic general-purpose humanoid decisive battle weapon...

But he suddenly remembered that when he first came to Athens to beg for food, the statue of the goddess on the top of the Acropolis that he saw when he got off the boat was obviously outdoors.

It seems that this thing is also hollow and can be moved around.

Ok……

That's okay.

Seeing that he was looking attentively, the priest enthusiastically introduced to him that the goddess's arms were also movable, and were usually adjusted to hold a spear high when placed outdoors.

Oh……

That's no ordinary business!