ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 335 Davos’s second wife

In order to maintain the friendship with Sparta, Dionysius had to move the Messenians out of Messina and built Tyndari in an unobtrusive place not far from Messina. He came to the city to settle these Messenians.

The reconstruction of Messina and the new construction of Tyndares made the Ligem on the other side of the strait feel like a thorn in their backs. The Ligium people felt that Dionysius coveted their city-state. They even felt that joining the South Italian League was not very safe. , because at this moment Syracuse not only unified the Greek city-states in eastern Sicily, but also basically conquered the Sikelians. Its strength is so amazing. Are the other city-states in the South Italian League willing to fight against the powerful Syracuse for Ligem? Kuza, this is a big question!The only one who dares to challenge Syracuse is probably the South Italian overlord Dionia who has this strength.

Therefore, the Liji people held a citizens' meeting and discussed it for several days without any result.

At this moment, a Syracuse fleet sailed into the port of Messina. Originally, this fleet was to escort the Syracuse army to continue its westward expedition to the north coast of Sicily, but it stimulated sensitive interests. The Jim people, the citizens' assembly quickly passed the bill, and the envoy was quickly sent to Thurii.

In the Dionysian Senate, when the Lijim envoy proposed that "Lijim is willing to join the Dionysian Alliance," the senators, including Davos, were quite shocked.You know, in the Dionysian League, Laos, Castellon, Metapontum, Aelia, Heraclea, and Garacuso are all small and medium-sized city-states in South Italy. Potenti Although Asia is a big country in the alliance, it was forced to join by the situation and faced the front of Dionia. It was not very submissive to Dionia, and Dionia has been busy reorganizing and reorganizing the country in the past two years. Governing Bruti and Picosis, there is no time to care about Potentia, which is far away on the edge of the mountainous area in the northern part of Dionia.

And now Lijim actually voluntarily asked to join the Dionia Alliance!You must know that Ligem is not only a powerful state in Magna Graecia, but also ranks first among the Magna Graecia city-states in terms of maritime trade wealth.With the addition of Lijim, Dionia's merchant ships and fleets can smoothly pass through the Strait of Messina, which not only makes trade with the Far Western Mediterranean such as Iberia and Gaul more convenient.At the same time, it is also more conducive for the navy to protect Dionia's cities on the west coast of Italy, Knapetia and Picossis, as well as the allied city-states of Laos and Aelia, connecting Dionia's territorial waters.

Of course, the elders of Dionia were extremely happy to accept Lijim's joining, but the Lijim envoy put forward a prerequisite: Davos, the governor of Dionia, must marry a Lijim woman, and this Lady Lidji has also chosen a woman, her name is Agnes.

Who is Agnes?Known as the "Rose of Legim", she was so beautiful when she was only 16 years old that she even attracted the proposal of Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, but was firmly rejected by the vigilant Legim people.

The angry envoy from Syracuse threw out a sentence: "Our almighty general will open his eyes and see who is more qualified to marry Agnes than him!"

Then Dionysius turned to the woman who had married Locle and decorated the passenger ship that welcomed his Locle wife with jewels and dazzling gold. This became a hot topic in Magna Greece at that time.

In Lijim, because of the words dropped by the Syracuse envoy, Agnes has never been able to marry, because as Syracuse continues to expand and become more and more powerful, not only the men of Lijim, The entire city-state did not want to anger Dionysius and thus make Ligem the target of the wrath of the tyrant of Syracuse.

As a result, just a few years later, Agnes was already a 21-year-old single woman (Greek women generally get married after 14 years old, that is, after puberty), but no one dared to marry, and she had to become a Greek woman. Priestess of the famous virgin goddess Arthenis.

Now facing the threat of Syracuse, the realistic and sophisticated Lijim people believe that Davos is the real power of Dionia, so they want to tie Davos and Lijim together through Agnes. Deal with Dionysius together.

Davos saw through the Lijim people's thoughts and immediately refused.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the Legim envoy actually persuaded most of the senators in the Senate, including Melses, Mariji, Kunogorata, Cornelus and others, to jointly visit Dai. Vos, hoping that he can agree to Li Jim's request, and also refuted what Daves said about "obeying the law of monogamy in Dionia", because there is no such toughness in the law of Dionia. This is just a conventional habit. Even in Athens, which once explicitly stipulated "monogamy", during the great plague period before the Peloponnesian War, polygamy was promoted due to the significant reduction in population.

At the same time, they also emphasized that Dionysius of Syracuse and other Sicilian city-state tyrants married multiple wives, so of course the lifelong consul of Dionia, the overlord of South Italy, could also be used.

They also refuted concerns that Davos believed that Dionia would be dragged into the war with Syracuse by Lijim.Felicius, Antonios and others thought: Even though Syracuse seemed powerful, the Carthaginians would always be its formidable enemy. How dare Dionysius risk fighting on two fronts and rashly offend the same people? Powerful Dionia.

In fact, the news from Sicily seemed to prove this: the army of Syracuse swept westward along the north coast of Sicily and began to approach the city of Solus. The Carthage Senate, angry at Taoromenion, finally made up its mind, appointed Mago, the brother of Hilmicus, as commander-in-chief, recruited soldiers, and prepared to lead the army to Sicily to resist the attack of the Syracuseans.

For the senators responsible for political affairs in the Dionia Senate, there is little risk in accepting Lijim, but on the contrary, the benefits are huge; for the senators responsible for military affairs, Lijim has a more powerful naval fleet, which can just make up for Dai Onia's shortcomings.

Under everyone's persuasion, Davos was a little hesitant.At this time, his wife Christoya stood up and expressed support for the Senate's hope that Davos would marry another Lijim wife, and persuaded Davos to accept Agnes.

Born in Miletus, Asia Minor, Christoya was influenced by Persian culture since she was a child and was not too resistant to polygamy. At first, Cyrus had more than a dozen favorite concubines.And as a successful businessman, she also knows the importance of Lijim's surrender to Dionia business.

Davos was finally persuaded to marry Agnes, a 21-year-old Lijim woman, into the mansion of the Dionia consul, and Lijim also successfully joined the Dionia Alliance.

This incident shocked the whole of Greater Greece.

When Dionysius learned the news, he was leading his army to besiege Sorus. He had already ordered a retreat, but he gave another order: sound the bugle call to attack...

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In the past two years, on the land of Asia Minor, the Greek coalition led by Dechiridas caused a lot of trouble to Persia.

So in 396 BC, King Artaxerxes of Persia, at the suggestion of his mother, appointed Konon, an Athenian temporarily living in Persia, as the admiral of the Persian navy (Conon was originally the commander of the Athenian navy and was defeated miserably in the Battle of the Sheep River) to Lysander of Sparta, which eventually led to the surrender of Athens to Sparta).

Conon fled to Persia, and he never forgot to take revenge on Sparta, so he often went to please the Queen Mother of Persia, Palusatis.Now that he finally had military power in his hands, he immediately led 300 Persian warships and actively cooperated with the Persian land forces. He soon caused heavy casualties to the Spartan army and put it in trouble.

As a result, Persia proposed an armistice and peace talks, but Sparta refused.

At this time, Sparta, already the overlord of Greece, was unwilling to accept peace talks when the war was passive. Not only would the terms of the peace talks be very unfavorable to Sparta, but it would also damage Sparta's prestige among the Greek city-states.As a result, the Council of Elders decided to send King Agesilaus to replace Deciridas and launch a larger war in Asia Minor.

Agesilaus had always shown himself to be approachable and humble in front of the Spartan people, but under the mask of adhering to Spartan traditions and laws, he hid an ambition that had never been known to anyone.He longs for great glory, worships ancient heroes, and hopes to use unprecedented victory to make the world forget his lameness and only remember his achievements.So when he received the order from the Council of Elders, he already regarded himself as the Agamemnon of this era, going to conquer the new Troy, that is, Persia.

So he led part of the army to the city of Aulis (it is located in the Boeotian region, and the most famous city-state in this region is Thebes), just like Agamemnon, the king of kings, commanded the entire Greek army. As he had done before crossing the sea to attack Troy, he offered sacrifices to the temple of Artemis there.

However, during the solemn worship process, the Thebans appeared. They claimed that the Spartans' actions had not been notified to Thebes, thus forcibly interrupting the ceremony.

This incident cast a shadow over the already tense relationship between Sparta and Thebes.For Agesilaus, who was extremely proud, this was a great shame!From then on he remembered Thebes.

Finally, Agesilaus led an army of two thousand new Spartan citizens and a military council of 30 people, including Lysander, and quietly crossed the sea to Asia Minor and stationed in Ephesus.

Lysander thought he was the Agesilaus he had supported. After arriving in Asia Minor, this gentle king would definitely rely on him, the real "king" who had conquered Asia Minor, and would hand over the command of the Spartan army to In his hands.

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