Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 194: Preparation for the sports meeting (1)
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Axikus greeted the guard standing by the door of the wooden house, then opened the door gently, and an unpleasant stench came out. He just sniffed, without any uncomfortable expression.
Ivia in the room is also unaffected by the smell. She is wearing clothes specially made for animal trainers, her hair is tied into a ball, firmly tied behind her head, and she is holding a fat black in one hand. The cat, holding the animal pen with one hand, looked at the animal pen with a slightly nervous expression.
"Avia...Avia..." Maybe because Ivia was too focused, Aksikus yelled a few softly, but she didn't respond, but the black cat turned around, with big eyes. Staring at Aksikus at the door, he yelled "meow" twice.
Ivia saw Aksikus beckoning at the door. She walked over unhappily and whispered, "Why have you talked with brother-in-law for so long, Nana (a female antelope)? It's about to give birth!"
"Just now, Paekestas, the son of Lord Hiros, sent someone to come to see me, saying that he and his cousin brought some guests to the zoo. The child can't stand it and wants to come in early." Aksikus told a little lie and changed the person who asked him for help to Pekestas.
This trick really worked, and Ivia immediately said, "Ah, Brother Pekestus is here, let them in quickly! I'll—" At this point, she turned her head back a little bit reluctantly. After looking at the animal pen, he changed his words and said: "After Nana gives birth, I will go to see him immediately."
In the past, Daves called to the king’s residence for family banquets from time to time, including the Henipolis, Aristras and Azunas, Bagul and Andreas, the Hilos... So Ivia is more familiar with Hiros's children.
"Then I will greet them first." After Aksikus said, he turned and left.
At this moment, the trainer's voice came from the house: "Princess, Nana is born!"
When Avia heard this, she became excited and ran in her husband's hand: "Nana finally gave birth to a lamb! Pray with me, and I hope Hades will help the little guy this time. Survive!"
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While the Sosiklis brothers took their guests to visit the zoo, there was an administrative meeting of the ministers of the kingdom in the palace hall of the inner city of Turin.
The commander of the court guard, Martius, saw that the ministers and the chief officials of the various departments had arrived on time and had sat down as usual. He immediately reported to Daves who was resting in the side hall. Only then took the court clerk Hernipolis, walked calmly into the main hall from the side door, and walked up to the throne.
The ministers all stood up and bowed respectfully.
"Sit all." Daves smiled and waved his hands. The ministers sat down. Then he looked at the people, speaking slowly, but his voice was thick and clear: "Everyone, today is this month. For the last regular administrative meeting, Turri will hold a sports meeting next month, so today we will focus on the issue of the sports meeting."
Speaking of this, he turned his gaze to Croto Kataks, who was sitting at the lower end on the right side: "Consultant, you are the main person in charge of organizing this sports meeting. First, give us a detailed introduction to the sports meeting. The preparations for ."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Cloto Kataks, who has served as the Archon of the Kingdom for more than 4 years, stood up calmly and said loudly, "My Excellencies, since your Majesty announced in June of the previous year Two years and one month have passed since the Games will be held. Our preparations have been basically completed. Now I will give you a specific report on the overall preparations."
In the past two years or so, Croto Kataks has devoted most of his energy to the preparation of the sports meeting. Most of the things are done by himself. Therefore, he knows the whole situation well, and he has not prepared a speech in advance. He coughed, sorted out his thoughts, and then said loudly: "According to your Majesty’s suggestion, the sports meets held in Turyi not only include traditional running, wrestling, boxing, racing, horse racing, and five sports (including running, long jump, and discus throwing). , Javelin, wrestling) these six major events, but also added archery, iron ball, high jump, pole vault, marathon, swimming-"
"I can understand the others, but what is this marathon?" The new Minister Bagul couldn't help asking. (In early March, Hermon requested to resign as Minister of State for his old age. Daves approved that, with the support of the Lucanian elders headed by Hermon, the Senate elected Bagul, the chief executive of the Roman region, to take over. Davers recognized the result of the election. Bagul Formally performed his duties last month).
Although Cloto Kataks has explained this problem several times in previous executive meetings, he still patiently explained to Baggul: "I think everyone should know that the Athens army defeated the Marathon a hundred years ago. After the Persians, the soldier Fitipitz ran back to the city of Athens from the marathon non-stop to announce the good news to the people and then fell to the ground and died. In order to commemorate this historical event, your Majesty specifically suggested that we set up this A race, so a marathon is a special long-distance race. Its running distance is the distance from the marathon to the city of Athens, a total of 84 miles."
"Eighty-four miles?!" Baggul exclaimed: "Who can run down such a long distance! Even if you can run down, I am afraid I will be exhausted!"
"We have specially tested it. As long as you don't run too fast, you can run down." Croto Kataks replied seriously: "Up to now, only our kingdom has signed up to participate in this project. There are 10 contestants."
"Oh, as long as you can run." Baggul nodded, indicating that he understood.
"Your Majesty, I have always had a question to ask." Military Secretary Olivers couldn't help but said. (The year before last, Alexis also resigned from the post of Minister of Military Affairs on the grounds of his old age. Daves had planned several replacement candidates, Leotichides, Matonis, Lizaru and Olivers. , But the other three refused to leave the army, hoping that the youngest Oliver would become the Minister of Military Affairs instead.)
"Go ahead."
"The marathon is just an ultra-long distance race. Why do we have to use the name of the Marathon to commemorate the Athenians? Instead of using the famous battles of our kingdom’s army in the past? For example, the First Army. The long-distance raid on the Roman army in Wolsey, and the long-distance raid on Larissa by our army landing on Peleus Beach five years ago... Isn’t it better to use these battles in the name?" Olivers put forward his own euphemism. opinion.
"Of course not!" Daves vetoed it without hesitation: "Whether it is a Roman or a Sesari, they are now citizens of the kingdom. It is disrespectful to them in the name of these battles. It will have a bad impact. And the marathon is a Greek fight against the Persians. Not only does it have no concerns in this regard, but it also shows our respect for the Greeks, especially the Athenians, and it helps to strengthen the Greeks’ Our approval can at least enable them to participate more actively in this sports meeting."
"Your Majesty is right. In the reply from Athens, there are 5 Athens runners who signed up for the marathon." Cloto Kataks answered.
Olivers was puzzled, nodded and said: "Now I have no opinion."
"Everyone, in order not to waste time, after the consul reports, what questions you will ask, let him focus on answering." Davers reminded him calmly.
The hall immediately became very quiet, Cloto Catacs continued: "...Marathon, swimming, clipper racing, sailing competition, military tetraathlon (including heavy-duty racing, javelin throwing, horseback riding) , Swimming), there are a total of 15 major events. At present, the venues and equipment required for all competition events have been prepared. All regions of the kingdom and all city-states that have received the invitation letter, except Persia, have promised to send players to participate. According to their reply, the total number of players who will participate in the competition is 1982, and the number of participants in each event exceeds 50...
According to the preliminary schedule, the Games will last for 15 days. Therefore, we are going to vacate all the hotels around the arena in the Turiyi area and rooms in the Kingdom Hotel in the inner city to provide players and officials from various regions and city-states. Free accommodation and food are provided to ensure that the players participating in the games can play in a better state (Initially, because of the Kingdom Rugby Finals and Football Finals held every year, Turiyi Town Hall was temporarily set up near each arena Athletes’ camps, and hotels managed by the City Hall were built on these temporary camps. While providing accommodation for players who participate in two ball games each year, they also provide convenience to tourists. As a result, the rooms are often full, which is very convenient for Turiyi. The City Hall made a lot of profits).
At the same time, we have also reached an agreement with the Turiyi Carriage Association. During the competition, they will be responsible for transporting the athletes to the competition venue to avoid being late.
The priest referee team from various temples led by the Hades Temple has been trained for several months and has basically mastered the judging standards of various competitions. I believe that by then the entire referee team will be able to judge each other fairly. Problems in the competition to avoid ugly phenomena such as cheating.
Master Stacey Cordas has provided us with great help. During the game, the medical department will send medically experienced medical teams to each stadium to treat injured players and spectators (Herps is already old Retired, the Secretary of Medicine was succeeded by Stacek Das). "