ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 189 Dionysius’ Concern and the Spartan King’s Funeral
The three looked at each other.

Zantiparis hurriedly comforted him and said: "Agacia, you did nothing wrong! We are all very grateful to you for saving us from the death battlefield in Asia Minor! As long as we stay patiently in the alliance, I believe we will eventually obtain citizenship rights and The land is just a little uncomfortable now. As for Sparta, you have to believe me and Timason, at least in three or four years, they will not be able to do anything hostile to the alliance!"

Greeks like to drink wine mixed with water, thinking that this way they will be less likely to get drunk and do stupid things, but Agcia didn't drink beer tonight, he drank all wine without water, and he got very drunk in the end.

Timazong and the others helped him home with great effort.

When they came out, the three of them were in tears.

Crisano curled his lips and said: "He regrets asking us to come to Magna Graecia. Isn't he going to help us anymore?!"

"Agarcia is not this kind of person!" Zantiparis shook his head: "I think he has been under too much pressure recently and wants to drink to relax. However, we should really restrain those guys who don't listen!"

The two argued for a while, but when they turned around, they saw Tima Song walking slowly with his head down, thinking about something.

"Timazon, what are you thinking about?! We should go back to the dock!" Crisano shouted.

Timasong looked at the two of them and said slowly and seriously: "I still remember that Davos often used to say, 'it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others'!"

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Phoebus arrived in Syracuse and was given a grand welcome by Dionysius. He invited Phoebus and his entourage to his palace, held a banquet and personally accompanied him.

Seeing the seductive dance of the beautiful slave girls in the center of the banquet hall, Phoebidas, who had developed strong self-control in the military camp since he was a child, also felt thirsty and drank several sips of wine.

I heard that Lysander's life in the Asia Minor city-states he controlled was comparable to that of the princes in the East. It should be like this!Phoebus thought to himself.

"Phoebidas, I heard that you went to Dionysia. Is the matter done?" Dionysius asked casually from above. The Spartan warship was in the Gulf of Taranto. After going around in a circle, someone had already spread the news to Syracuse.

"Yes, but it was not successful." Phoebidus admitted, with a hint of appreciation in his tone: "The governors of the Dionysian Alliance and the elders of the Senate have very tough attitudes. Even when facing us, Sparta, And he refuses to give in at all!"

"Oh!" Dionysius said slightly surprised: "It sounds like you have a good impression of them?"

"Although we haven't been in contact for a long time, I can feel that they highly value war and victory, respect capable generals and warriors, and train very frequently. They are somewhat similar to us Spartans!" Phoebidas did not hesitate to give his speech. Praise: "And this new alliance is developing very quickly. I heard that it was just a small city-state more than half a year ago, and now it has three cities and two affiliated allies. I believe it won't be long before it becomes the dominant power in Magna Graecia. A powerful force!”

After hearing this, Dionysius forced out a smile: "This is a good thing. At least the natives of Magna Graecia have met their opponents." Having said that, the wine glass he had originally picked up was put down with a "bang", and the drink Splattered on the table, he immediately turned the conversation to his army about to attack Carthage.

Phoebidas saw this, with a smile on his lips.

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On the way back to Sparta, Dorobyses, who had been holding back for a long time, asked: "Phoebidas, why did you praise Dionia at the banquet instead?"

"My praise will keep Dionysius awake!" Phoebus said with a proud smile: "Since the last tyrant of Syracuse, Gron, he has regarded Syracuse as Sicily and Great Britain. Leader of Greece. I remember the old man once said that Gron even sent an army north to Campania in the central Apennines to defeat the Etruscans who besieged Cumae... And Dionysius was even more ambitious. , he used force to turn all the Greek city-states in southeastern Sicily into tributaries of Syracuse. Will he allow a powerful force to emerge in Greater Greece to threaten Syracuse's status?!... It's a pity that he will soon To attack Carthage, we cannot take action against Dionia in the short term..."

"Oh, that's it!" Dorobyses suddenly realized, but he immediately asked: "Since Dionysius is interested in Magna Graecia, then Dionia may not be as good as Ligem and Crotone. The weight in his heart.”

"Yes." Phoebidas admitted this: "The current strength of Dionia is not as good as these traditional Magna Greek powers, but its speed of development will also arouse the vigilance of this eager Sicilian. .”

Dorobises recalled the spectacular scene he saw when he was invited by Dionysius to review his army before, and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Speaking of which, Dionysius is really powerful, he can actually send five 6 An army of ten thousand people, and two or three thousand cavalry to attack Carthage!"

"Although there are many people, I don't see many soldiers who are truly good at fighting!" Phoebus was partly telling the truth, and partly out of sour grape psychology, because even Sparta, which had become the overlord of Greece, could not send them out at once. With such a huge army, one can imagine the strength of Syracuse and its affiliated city-states.

Let Syracuse, Carthage, and Dionia kill each other!Phoebus cursed in his mind.

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Entering the new year (398 BC), the Thurii-Castellon road has been completely built, and the thousands of Crotone prisoners in Deolia have also returned because the half-year deadline has expired. Crotone.

For Davers, he was getting more and more nervous and excited because Christia's belly was making more and more noises and it was less than a month before her due date.

At this time, news came from Niutum. Potentia officially announced its support for Lusau, Akpiru's son, to regain Grumentum, and asked Sincinag to return to Picosis, otherwise Potentia General Ya sent troops to join the battle.

Xinsinaga suddenly became nervous. He took the initiative to send envoys to the Grumentum tribes occupying the southern city, saying that they were willing to immediately implement their previous requests, as long as they could reunite and jointly deal with the upcoming Potenti. Asia's army.

These tribal leaders were very happy with Xinsinag's submission. They were also afraid that Lusau would come to settle the accounts with them if he really allowed Lusau to take back Grumentum, because they knew that Lusau, like his father, was also a man who was determined to take revenge. .

Everyone believed that it was external pressure that forced the two forces in Grumentum City to compromise with each other and get back together.But when the leaders happily came to the center of the city to prepare for peace talks with Xinsinag, they did not expect that Xinsinag had ambushed a large number of soldiers in advance, launched a sudden attack, killed all the participating leaders, and then launched a surprise attack.

The tribe in the southern city suffered heavy casualties due to their leader being killed and neglected to take precautions. As a result, they suffered heavy casualties due to the premeditated attack by the Picosis warriors. Some warriors surrendered and some escaped from Grumentum City.

Facing the military threat from Potentia, Sincinag unexpectedly unified Grumentum in one fell swoop.After hearing the news, even Davos had to admire Xinsinag's determination and ruthlessness. Little did he know that Xinsinag was able to do this mostly because of the painful memory of being attacked from behind by the Vig people. .

Soon, Sesta sent a report to the Senate, saying that due to Sinsinaga's killing in Grumentum, some Lucarians fled to Niutum, and Picosi also fled to Niutum. A war was about to begin between Sri Lanka and Potentia. The small tribes caught between the two major forces also fled south for fear of being involved in the war, causing the number of registered reserve citizens in Nieutum to surge to 8000.Niutum neither had enough land to allocate nor was able to support such a large population, so it requested that some Lucalians be relocated to Thurii.

Davos and the senators held repeated discussions, especially the stability of Niutum and the good performance of the Lucanians during this period, which led to everyone finally reaching a consensus: agreeing to move.

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Phoebus returned to Sparta, and his report on his mission to Dionia did not attract the attention of the Council of Elders.One of the reasons is that he has always acted on his own, which made the Spartan elders who knew him well were a little disgusted by his repeated emphasis on "The Dionysian League is disrespectful and unreasonable to Sparta and must be punished." Instead, they concluded that it was He caused trouble himself and caused this result.The more important reason is that the elders do not have the energy to deal with this small matter now, because Agis, one of the two kings of Sparta, died of illness.

Since the time of Homer, Sparta has practiced a dual-king rule. The king, who is said to be a direct descendant of Heracles, was born from two hereditary royal families: one is the Agidai family located in the center of Sparta. , one is the Eulipontides family from southern Laconia.Agis was born into the Eulipontides family.Although by this era, due to the rise of democracy, Sparta's royal power had been greatly restricted, it still enjoyed many honors, especially when he died, the entire Spartan territory was preparing for Agis' funeral: The cavalry rushed across Laconia to announce the death of King Agis; women banged iron pots and reported the news everywhere in Sparta; after hearing the news, each household must give out two free men, one male and one male. Women wore mourning attire; the Pythians were also obliged to send a fixed number of persons to attend funerals held by a council of elders.

The funeral lasts for ten days, during which no public business can be conducted, and after ten days, the first order of business of the elders is to elect a new king.

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