Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

And Christopher's second brother, Crimides, grabbed the railing with both hands and shouted excitedly.

His lively second aunt (Eunice) even waved his fists and kept shouting: Chris, great! You are such a brave child!  …

Christopher smiled, this time from the heart, and this smile took away the tension in his heart. He held the wooden sign with his head held high, and led the referee team around the field for a week, and then entered the central station of the field. Certainly.

Just now, all the audience were wondering why behind the referee team was pushing a wooden cart. On the wooden cart was a large bronze basin that was half a person high and supported by a golden-yellow copper column. At this time, the answer was revealed: push The priests of the cart pushed the wooden cart to the very center of the arena, dismantled it quickly, and reassembled it into a small wooden platform. The large bronze basin was placed on the wooden platform, and it looked like a simple altar.

At this time, the red flag was played on the host stage again, and the audience gradually returned to quiet.

Now, please enter the athletes' delegations from all regions of the kingdom and the participating city-state athletes' delegations!!!

With the host's enthusiastic shouts, the band immediately played the March of Victory. The cheerful and joyful melody sounded on the field. The audience was refreshed and looked up at the entrance of the field.

The athletes who had been waiting outside the main arena for a long time finally entered the arena in turn under the command of Dionysian soldiers.

Through the previous entry of the band and the jury, the audience has begun to adapt to the novel opening ceremony of the Dionysian Games, and they have begun to excitedly guess who will be the first team of athletes to enter the stadium, and some people even use it to bet. The answer in many people's minds is - the Turii region of the Holy Kingdom of Dionia, because it is the center of this powerful kingdom in the Western Mediterranean and the venue for the Games, it deserves to be the leader.

However, when the Turii boy walked into the venue with a wooden sign first, and the audience could see the words on the wooden sign, they were all surprised: Arcadia Alliance? ! Why the Arcadia Alliance? !

Only some VIPs near the royal stand could barely hear the host's voice from the loud noise: ...in order to demonstrate the principle of 'equality and justice' advocated by the great god Hades in this Games, wise His Majesty Davos proposed to the Games Preparatory Team to arrange the entry order of each sports delegation according to the order of the Greek letters of the names of the participating regions and city-states...

The representatives of the Greek city-states suddenly realized that Dionia had practically implemented their commitment to equal treatment of participating city-states, no matter how big or small they said in the invitation letter, which made them more or less moved.

Lycomedes, who was whispering to Peropidas, learned that the delegation of Arcadia League athletes was entering the stadium, and immediately jumped up, completely ignoring his precious status in the Arcadia League, Like other spectators from the Arcadia League, they kept waving their arms at the athletes, shouting loudly, and cheering for them.

The city-states in the Arcadia League are small in population and weak in strength, but they are all Greek city-states with a long history and are very close to the traditional four major games. It has always been strong, coupled with the close relationship between Mandinia and Dionia, under the strong promotion of Lycomedes, the Arcadia Union sent more than 50 athletes to participate in swimming, horse racing and racing. and other sports other than archery.

As soon as the players of the Arcadia League entered the arena, they were immediately enveloped in deafening cheers, which really startled them. These players have participated in at least one sports meeting, but they have never seen so many spectators, In such a splendid arena, the cheers were like muffled thunder, rolling and reverberating in this circular space, which not only shocked them, but also ignited the blood in their hearts.

The long-awaited depression outside the arena was quickly forgotten, and they also waved to the audience enthusiastically. There was a good interaction inside and outside the arena.

Make the atmosphere more lively.

Davos and his family still did not return to their seats when the Arcadian delegation of athletes approached the royal stand, and another person was added beside the railing, the late Adoris' wife Aidui. . They smiled and waved to the teenager holding the wooden sign, and loudly encouraged.

The teenager kept walking and continued to move forward, but his eyes were a little wet. The teenager, who appears to be two years older than Christod, is named Enon and is Adoris' only son. After Adoris died in battle, both Clotokatax and Davos felt deeply guilty, so they took extra care of Edui and his son.

When the Arcadia delegation passed the royal stand, the second athlete delegation entered the arena. The word Argos was clearly engraved on the wooden sign, which made the VIPs of the allies completely believe what the host said. Words: Dionysus is indeed impartial and unbiased in arranging the sports delegations in alphabetical order.

Argos is in a bad situation right now.

In the past, it has been working hard to bring the fertile Triangle of Argos in the northeastern corner of the Peloponnese into its control to fight against the mighty Sparta, but the Mycenaean, Ti Sparta and several other city-states, with the secret support of Sparta, have always had conflicts of interest with it, and even Crione (the site of the Nemean Games) under its control sometimes wants to be independent.

Although after the Greek War, Argos surrendered in time and made some contributions in the siege of Athens. After many requests, he finally got the support of Dionia, and basically completed the attack on Argos. The unification of the plains, the Argos Plains Alliance is declared to the outside world. However, Argos is an oligarchy, somewhat similar to Sparta, and lacks excellent political leaders like Peropidas and Lycomedes. The means implemented in the integration of the entire plain area in recent years are simple and rude , which caused dissatisfaction with other city-states in the region, and conflicts broke out, so this time Argos responded positively to Dionia's invitation and sent a team of more than 40 athletes, hoping to meet at the next meeting of the Greek Union. Dionysus was again able to support the discussion of the conflict in the Peloponnesian Triangle of Argos.

Although there were very few Argos spectators in the arena, the enthusiastic Dionysian audience still gave the Argos League players friendly cheers like they did the Arcadia delegation.

However, the formation of the Argos athletes delegation was a bit strange. The Argos players with a large number gathered and walked in the front, while the Argos allies with a small number of players gathered together and dragged in the back. There is not a small distance, and anyone with a heart can see what is going on.

Plato, who knew the inside story, directly asked: What is Dionysian going to do about the conflict in the Argos Plain?

This will be an important topic at the meeting of the Greek Union early next month. At that time, we will convene the main parliamentarians of all the city-states of the Argos Plain to discuss, not only to listen to Argos' opinions, but also to listen carefully to other The reasonable demands of the city-state... Davos looked serious and said implicitly: Strive to come up with a plan acceptable to all parties to resolve this dispute peacefully.

Argos and Spartans are somewhat similar, conservative and stubborn, and the tradition of dominating the Argos Plain has a long history and deep roots, so I'm afraid they will not easily compromise. Plato reminded.

The original strength of Argos was insufficient. Although there were some small battles with other city-states in the Argos Plain from time to time, they were basically able to maintain peace. Now Argos has received strong support from Dionia, but it has intensified. Dionysius should bear a lot of responsibility for the conflicts in the region and lead to the current tense situation! Xenophon criticized bluntly.

It's just that there were some conflicts, and no wars broke out. The situation is much better than the previous battles. How can it be said that the contradictions have been intensified- Plato defended in place of Dionia.

That's just because the Greek alliance has a decree that the city-states that cause the war will be severely punished, so they are all maintaining restraint- Xenophon retorted.

Isn't this the credit of Dionysus? It is precisely because Dionysius established and led the Greek alliance that there has been a long-term peace in the Greek mainland—

I'm not denying Dionia's achievements in this regard, I just think that Dionia's handling of Argos and other city-states on the Argos Plain is a bit inappropriate—

You have to know that Argos did provide some help in the process of Dionia's pacification of mainland Greece. Since Dionia can help Mandinia and Thebes integrate their respective regions, and support Argos also It is understandable, after all, the city-states such as Mycenae did not give Dioria any help in the whole Greek war.

But it turns out that this choice Dionia made was wrong!

You can't deny the rationality of the decision based on the error of the result! And it's not a bad thing to make a mistake, Dionia can make improvements based on it. But I think that under the current situation, Argos still Adopting the same oligarchy as old Sparta, it is almost impossible to lead the other city-states on the Argos Plain—

Formerly Sparta was not an oligarchic entity at all, but rather a mixture of monarchy and democracy more classically virtuous than other native Greek city-states—

This is the first time I've heard such a statement, but I don't agree. Let's see first, is Sparta a monarchy?—