Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 1144

[Chapter 93 Ellis City-State]

Although the Greeks did not know the destination of this large-scale fleet, they were familiar with the “black hair twined fork” symbol on the sail, but it used to be on the Dionysian merchant ship that came to trade. Seeing that they are now on the warship, does this mean that the barbarian kingdom on the other side of the Adriatic Sea is finally going to launch an attack on the Greek mainland?

No matter how scared and suspicious the Greek people are, the speed of the Dionia fleet Going straight to the south, it quickly crossed the entrance of the Gulf of Corinth and entered the waters off the west coast of the Peloponnese Peninsula. As dusk approached, the fleet had to disembark early to prepare for camping. Without being able to reach

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southern coast of Messinia today, further south are steep and narrow coasts, making it difficult for ships to dock, and for crews to rest.

The northwest corner of the peninsula, where the terrain is relatively flat, has been called the Elis region since ancient times. It is very famous throughout the Greek world because the Olympia Games were held here, and there is also the famous Temple of Zeus, of course. There are also two well-known city-states, Alice and Pisa, who have always been mortal enemies for the right to host the Olympia Games.

The location where the Dionysus landed happened to be within the territory of Alice, and the densely packed Ships rushed to the coast, thousands of soldiers washed up on the beach, and the neighboring Greeks were terrified and ran inland with their families.

The people of Alice City were quickly informed and also panicked: they Although I have little dealings with the Dionysians, I have never provoke this behemoth in the west. There is no warning. Why did the Dionysians send troops to invade their territory

?! Citizens carried out emergency military mobilization, while urgently negotiating, and even they finally came to a conclusion: It is said that the Dionysians believed in Hades and did not recognize Zeus as the king of gods. Could it be that this time they came to destroy the temple of Zeus?

Elise’s councillors made a sad discovery: if this were the case, the Elise would have to fight to the death in order to defend the protector Zeus.

Just when the Elises felt pessimistic about their prospects, they received an urgent notice from the city guard: the Dionysian messenger was visiting.

Ticias, a citizen of Dionia, a native of Tyndares, who served as a general of Tyndares for several consecutive terms, had a high prestige among the people of Tyndares, and later responded to the demands of the people, convened and chaired citizens The assembly eventually made Tyndares smoothly merge into the kingdom of Dionia, and he also became the elder of the kingdom.

When the news that “Davos approved the Dionysian army to attack Peloponnese and rebuild Messenia” reached the Senate, he took the initiative to come to see King Davos, hoping to follow the army, because he His

ancestral home is Messenia…

At this time, Ticias walked to the center of the Elis Council meeting with his head held high, and looked at the

pair of angry, but frightened eyes, and he felt a sense of pride in his heart. The pride of being a citizen of a great country, but he suppressed this pride and tried his best to make his expression sincere: “Children of Zeus, honorable citizens of Alice, on behalf of the kingdom of Dionia, I would like to express my greetings to you. With the most sincere apologies! Our fleet had to dock temporarily to rest in order to prevent accidents because it was late during the voyage, so we entered your territory, but please rest assured, we will only rest for one night, tomorrow Just leave, it will not cause any harm to this land and its people, and based on the inconvenience caused to you by our reckless behavior, we Dionia will also pay a certain amount of gold and silver as the army’s troops on this night. Compensate for the overnight fee to Alice…”

Ticias’s words made Alice’s congressmen suspicious, but a hanging heart finally fell.

There was a commotion in the venue, and the members whispered and discussed for a while before someone stood up and asked: “Dionians, your reckless actions really caused a lot of trouble to Ellis, but if things are as you Having said that, we are still willing to forgive your rash behavior…”

Alice is not a talkative city-state, not to mention its decades-long conflict with Pisa, and it has also had several wars with the Spartans in these decades, but Senator Alice is at the moment. So it became so reasonable, but it was because the Dionians came so suddenly, and the number of troops was so large that they felt that it was difficult to match, so they wanted to send this plague god away as soon as possible.

Then, another member of the parliament asked curiously: “I don’t know where your army is going?”

Ticias waited for this question, and he immediately asked back: “Have you heard of Tinda in Sicily? Is it the city of Reis?”

“Tindaris… It should be a city-state established on the northeastern corner of Sicily with the support of the original tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse. It is said that more than half of its citizens come from Messenia, and then Tyndares took refuge in Dionia…” said a member of parliament.

“It’s not a refuge, but the citizens of Tyndares collectively decided to join Dionia!” Ticias corrected a sentence loudly, and then continued: “When the people of Tyndares joined the Dionysian Holy Kingdom, King Davos once made a promise, ‘One day he will help Mesenia gain independence and free the Messenians who have become slaves’… But soon after that, due to the influence of the war, Dio Dia and Sparta signed a long-term peace agreement, a promise that was put on hold until this year the Spartans tore up the peace agreement with us Dionia—”

Ticias had a schadenfreude grin on his face , said loudly: “King Davos finally has a chance to fulfill his promise, so the Dionian army you see is going to the Messenia region to drive away the Spar, which has occupied there for hundreds of years. Daren, let Mesenia become the homeland of the Mesenians again!”

At the end, Ticias became excited, as if a flame was suddenly lit in the venue, making the love Lithians were shocked and excited: this news is amazing!

Dionia, the overlord of the Western Mediterranean, has declared war on Sparta!

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Why are the Elises excited?

Wasn’t it also a member of the Peloponnesian League?

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Elis was indeed a member of the Peloponnesian League, but ever since the Spartan king Archis (Leoticides’ father) led an army into Elis, defeated him and forced him to submit. , and even took part of its territory as their own, the Ailes gradually drifted away from Sparta. In the subsequent military operations led by Sparta, the Ailes did little to punish Its disobedience, the Spartans even handed over the right to host the Olympia Games to Alice’s sworn enemy – Pisa.

In the Peloponnesian League, Elis was gradually being marginalized.

What worries the Ailes even more is that in the Spartan armistice meeting they attended not long ago, in addition to Thebes, Ailes was the second city-state that did not sign the contract, because according to the contract, each city-state It must be independent, and it is impossible for the Alice people to allow the several towns they control to gain independence. Therefore, Alice also refused to participate in the oath action held in Athens before. In this way, Alice was in Pelopon. The western part of the Nyssar Peninsula appears too isolated.

Therefore, after the Arcadians had a deadlock with Sparta over the establishment of an alliance during this time, the Eleans were ecstatic, and a few days ago, they specially sent messengers to Megalopolis to prepare for Akka. The Dians expressed their support, and now the kingdom of Dionia’s declaration of war on Sparta will undoubtedly give them a boost.

In this boiling noise, someone suddenly shouted: “Dear Dionysian messenger, you just said that the Dionysian kingdom will let the Messenians rebuild their homes, the Messenians you said What are you referring to?”

Ticias took a closer look, and the person who spoke was the one who answered the origin of Tyndares before, and he probably had a clue in his heart, and he said loudly: “All the people who were enslaved by the Spartans and lived in Mesa Messenian slaves in Ninia and Laconia, all Messenians forced to live in exile in other city-states and their descendants will be regarded by our Dionysian Holy Kingdom as the Messenians to be established Citizens of the city-state of Nia, Dionia welcomes them back to the lands where their ancestors lived, and to rebuild what truly belongs to them!

In fact, I am a Messenian, and this time I will see with my own eyes that the Dionian army will drive away the Spartan robbers who have occupied our homeland for a hundred years, and will personally liberate those compatriots who have become Helots, so that They regained their dignity and freedom, and brought the land of Messenia back to life in the hands of true Messenians!

After listening to Ticias ‘

words, the congressman’s eyes suddenly turned red, and he couldn’t help opening his mouth to sing: “Under the towering and precipitous Mount Tigertos, the clear and gentle Pamisus River flows, the majestic Etom boulder. Blessing the beautiful city of Meseni, countless cattle and sheep are running on the plains with luscious water and grass, and countless farmers are working in the fields…”

Tisias was stunned, and UU reading www.sonicmtl.com then sang along with him “…Spartans like wolves occupied our land and enslaved us like cattle and sheep. We still couldn’t bear the burden. Their cruel whips kept beating. Most of the fruits of labor are attributed to these ferocious robbers…”

At this moment, several Alice Senators joined in and sang emotionally: “…Gods of Olympus, if you Willing to bless Mesenia, I will sacrifice my daughter like the hero Aristodemus, and fight to the death;

Gods of Olympus, please drop your blessings, and I will be like Aris Just like Tomenes, I have been fighting all my life, as long as the people can be saved, I am willing to go through hardships, bruised and bruised, and have nothing…”

At the end of the song, the voices of seven or eight people overwhelmed the noise of the venue. Tears welled up on everyone’s face.

Since the fall of Messenia, this ballad written by no one has been quietly sung among the enslaved people of Messenia. The Senians always remember the suffering of their ancestors.

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