Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 2: Davers’s second wife

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

The reconstruction of Messina and the new construction of Tindaris left Lijim on the other side of the strait behind. The Lijim felt Dionysius' coveting of their city-states, and they even felt that they had joined the Southern Italian League. It is not very safe, because at this moment Syracuse not only dominates the Greek city-states in eastern Sicily, but also basically conquered the Western Kyles. The strength is too amazing. Are other city-states in the Southern Italian League willing to fight against the powerful for Lijim? Syracuse, this is a big question! The only person who dares to call Syracuse may only be the southern Italian overlord Dionia with this strength.

Therefore, the Lijim convened a citizens' assembly, and they discussed it for several days to no avail.

At this moment, a Syracuse fleet entered the port of Messina. Originally, this fleet was for the Syracuse army to continue its westward expedition to the north coast of Sicily to escort, but it was exciting. For the sensitive Lijim, the citizens' assembly quickly passed the bill, and the messenger was quickly sent to Turei.

In the Dionian Senate, when the envoy of Lijim proposed that "Lijim is willing to join the League of Dionian", the senators including Daves were quite shocked. You know, in the Dionian League, Laos, Castellon, Metapontum, Elia, Heraclea, and Galagoso are all small and medium-sized city-states in Southern Italy. Although Ya is a big state in the alliance, it was forced by the situation to join the frontmen facing Dionia. They were not very obedient to Dionia, and Dionia has been busy rectifying and reconciling them in the past two years. Governing Bruti and Picosis, there is no time to pay attention to Potentia, which is on the edge of the mountains in the northern part of Dionia.

And now Lijim actually voluntarily asks to join the League of Dionia! We must know that Lijim is not only a strong state in Great Greece, but also ranks first among the great Greek city states in terms of sea trade wealth. With the participation of Lijim, Dionian merchant ships and fleets can smoothly pass through the Strait of Messina, not only making it easier to trade with Iberia, Gaul and the Far Western Mediterranean. At the same time, it is also more conducive to the naval **** of Dionia in the cities of Conapetia and Picosis on the west coast of Italy, as well as the allied city states of Laos and Elia, connecting Dionia's territorial waters.

Of course, the elders of Dionia were very happy to accept Lijim, but the envoy of Lijim put forward a prerequisite: Dionian Archon Daves must marry a Lijim woman as his wife. , And this woman, Lijim has also been selected, her name is Agnes.

Who is Agnes? Known as the "Rose of Lijim", she was born very beautiful when she was 16 years old, and even attracted the proposal of Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, but was resolutely rejected by the vigilant Lijim.

The angry Siracusa envoy dropped a sentence: "Our almighty general will open his eyes and see, who is more qualified to marry Agnes!"

Then, Dionysius turned to marry the woman of Lockley, and adorned the passenger ship welcoming his wife with jewels and dazzling gold, which became a hot topic in Great Greece at that time.

In Lijim, because of the words dropped by the messenger of Syracuse, Agnes has never been able to marry, because as Syracuse continues to expand and become stronger and stronger, not only Lijim The man, the entire city-state did not want to provoke Dionysius, thus making Lijim an angry target for the tyrant of Syracuse.

As a result, after a few years, Agnes is already a 21-year-old single woman (Greek women usually get married after 14 years old, that is, they can get married at the end of puberty), and no one dares to marry. Not to be a priestess of Artenis, the famous goddess of the Greek gods.

The sophisticated Lijim who are now facing the threat of Syracuse believe that Daves is the real power of Dionia, so they want to tie Daves and Lijim through Agnes. Together, deal with Dionysius together.

Davers saw through the thoughts of Li Jim, and immediately refused.

Who knows that a few days later, this Lijim envoy actually touched most of the senators in the Senate, even including Merses, Mariji, Kunogolata, Cornellus, etc., Jue visited Davos, hoping that he would agree to Lijim’s request, and also refuted Davos’s "monogamy with Dionian" law, because Dionian’s law does not include this. A tough rule, this is just a customary habit. Even in Athens, where “monogamy” was once expressly stipulated, during the great plague period before the Peloponnesian War, polygamy was promoted due to the drastic decrease in population. system.

At the same time, they also emphasized that Dionysius of Syracuse and the tyrants of other Sicilian city-states have married multiple wives, so of course the life-long consul of the southern Italian overlord Dionia is also possible.

They also refuted the concern that Daves believed that Dionia would be dragged into the war with Syracuse by Lijim. Felicius, Antonios, and others thought: Regardless of Syracuse’s seemingly powerful, the Carthaginians will always be its enemies, how could Dionysius risk the danger of fighting on both sides and offend the same The mighty Dionia.

In fact, the news from Sicily seems to prove this: The Syracuse army swept west along the north coast of Sicily, began to approach the city of Solus, and finally let it be because of Dionysius. The Carthage Senate, who led the army to besieged Tauromaignan and was angry, finally made up his mind, appointed Hilmiko’s brother Margo as the commander, recruited soldiers, and prepared to lead the army to Sicily again to resist the Syracuse. attack.

For the veterans in charge of political affairs in the Dionian Senate, accepting Lijim is not very risky, on the contrary, the benefits are great; for the veterans in charge of the military, Lijim has a relatively powerful naval fleet, which happens to be Can make up for Dionia's shortcomings.

Under the persuasion of everyone, Daves hesitated. At this time, his wife Christoya stood up and expressed support for the Senate's hope that Daves would marry another Lijim wife, and persuaded Daves to accept Agnes.

Christoya, who was born in Miletus, Asia Minor, was influenced by Persian culture since she was a child, and was not very resistant to polygamy. At the beginning, Cyrus had more than a dozen concubines. And already a successful businessman, she knows the importance of Lijim's obedience to Dionia's business.

Daves was finally persuaded to marry the 21-year-old Lijim woman, Agnes, into the residence of the Dionian Archon, and Lijim successfully joined the Dionian League.

This incident shocked the entire Greater Greece.

When Dionysius heard the news, he was leading his army to besiege Solus. He had already ordered a retreat, but he ordered again: Blow the attacking bugle...

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In the past two years, in the land of Asia Minor, the Greek coalition led by Dekiridas has caused great trouble to Persia.

So in 396 BC, the king of Persia, Artaxerxes, at the suggestion of his mother, appointed Konun, an Athenian temporarily residing in Persia, as the admiral of the Persian navy. Lysander, who was defeated badly by Sparta in the battle, eventually led to Athens surrendering to Sparta).

Konun fled to Persia, and has been diligently taking revenge on Sparta, so he often went to please the Queen Mother of Persia, Palusatis. Now that the military power was finally in hand, he immediately led 300 Persian warships and actively cooperated with the Persian land forces, which soon caused heavy casualties to the Spartan army and put it into trouble.

So Persia offered a truce and peace talks, but Sparta refused.

At this time, Sparta, who was 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. Therefore, the Council of Elders decided to send King Agsilius to replace Dekiridas to launch a greater war in Asia Minor.

Agsilius has always shown his approachable and humility in front of the Spartan people, but under the mask of abiding by Spartan traditions and laws, he hides a never-known Ambition. He yearns for great glory, worships ancient heroes, and hopes to use unprecedented victories to make the world forget his lameness and only remember his achievements. So when he accepted the order from the Council of the Elders, he had already regarded himself as the Agamemnon of this era, going to conquer the new Troy, namely Persia.

So, he led a part of the army to the city of Olis (it is located in the area of ​​Piosha, the most famous city-state in this area is Thebes), just like the commander of Agamemnon, the king of kings. The whole Greek army made offerings to the Temple of Artemis as they did before they crossed the sea to attack Troy.

However, during the solemn worship process, the Thebes appeared. They declared that the Spartans had not notified Thebes about their actions, thus forcibly interrupting the ceremony.

This incident cast a shadow over the already tense relationship between Sparta and Thebes. For the extremely self-respecting Agcilius, this is simply a shame! From then on he remembered Thebes.

Finally, Agsilius led an army of 2,000 new citizens of Sparta and a 30-man military committee headed by Lysander, across the sea quietly to Asia Minor and stationed in Ephesus.

Lysander thought he was the Agsilius he supported. After arriving in Asia Minor, this gentle king will rely on him, the true "king" who conquered Asia Minor, and will command the Spartan army. The power is in his hands.