Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 631

[Chapter 50 Funeral]

Except for those who could not arrive for important matters, such as Alexis who commanded the army to fight in Downey, most of the elders, even those who served as chief executives in other places, rushed to the mourning hall of Kunogolata to worship, Many middle and low-level officials of the kingdom also came to mourn.

It is more about the people of Turii. In those days, Kunogolata provided great help to the people of Turii whose city was burned down and lost their homes. In more than half of the following ten years, It is Kuno Gorata who is serving as the chief executive of the city. Turii can have today’s prosperity, and Kuno Gorata has contributed a lot. How can the people not miss his kindness!

Therefore, on this day, the people of Turii did not happily talk about football games, nor did they go to the restaurant to have a drink, but the worshippers outside the mourning hall were always in a continuous stream.

But although everyone looked sad and solemn, there was almost no scene of crying, and it was relatively quiet.

This is different from other Greek city-states, where mourners in other city-states even hire professional mourners to add to the mourning atmosphere.

And according to the Canon of Hades, the soul of the dead Dionysus can enter the Elysee Paradise according to its performance in life, it is a beautiful paradise, and entering there is for happiness rather than suffering, so relatives and worshipers do not have to Too sad, or you are cursing the dead into purgatory.

The ceremony to pay homage to the remains lasted for one day, and the funeral for Kunogorata began early the next morning.

Relatives placed Kunogorata’s body in a wooden coffin, along with some offerings for his final journey to Hades and the Elysee.

The wooden coffin was placed on a carriage, which was pulled by four black horses.

Behind the carriage were members of the royal family headed by Davos, senior officials of the kingdom, elders and their families, all of them also wearing black veils and looking solemn.

The people who arrived after hearing the news consciously lined up behind, and gradually merged into a long dragon with no tail in sight, forcing the Turiyi police station to send more staff to maintain order.

The funeral procession was specially equipped with more than a dozen flutists and trumpeters, who played solemn and slightly melancholy elegy, rendering a solemn and mysterious atmosphere for the entire funeral procession.

In front of the carriage, Plessinas led a dozen priests in black robes to sing the Hades hymn, sprinkled the street with clean water, and led the funeral procession to the underworld of Hades.

Eight palace guards in uniform lifted the wooden coffin and took steady steps to a small temple next to the Temple of Hades. This is the god of Hades, Thanatos, the god of death. The temple was built after the South-Italian War.

There was an incineration pool in front of the temple. The guards put the wooden coffins into the pool. The priests began to pour olive oil through the pipes around the incineration pool.

The relatives of Kunogolata, such as Sostatus and Dika Okrat, faced grief, and the others bowed their heads and prayed silently.

Only Davos, who was wearing a white robe, walked to the incineration pond and opened his arms. , shouting to the sky: “The great Hades, Kuno Gorata, a citizen of Dionia, returns to hell again today. I am your devout subject, and I beseech you to grant him according to what he did in his lifetime. A blessing after death!”

After speaking, he took the torch from Plessinas and threw it into the pool.

At the same time as the raging fire ignited, dozens of saintess sang in unison, and the light singing resounded through the hills, washing away the sadness in the hearts of the people.

The wooden coffin was turned to ashes in the singing, but the funeral was not over. Kunogolata’s relatives took out the unfinished bones from the ashes after the incineration, wrapped them in freshly made linen and put them in the urn. middle.

Davos also spoke aloud to the people who came to the funeral about the great contribution Kunogolata made to the Kingdom of Dionia during his lifetime, and announced that the bronze bust of Kunogolata would be placed in Hades. The pantheon of the temple is with the kingdom of Dionia!

His urn will be placed in the Temple of the Dead, blessed by the underworld!

With the completion of these two things, the funeral was declared over.

When many elders and officials said goodbye to their relatives, they no longer consoled them, but congratulated them.

Before, the elders also attended the funerals of Scomblas and Bachilippi, but Kunogolata’s funeral not only attracted the most people, but also achieved the peak of the honors he enjoyed after his death.

The ashes can only be enjoyed by citizens who have been loyal to the kingdom, have been diligent throughout their lives, and have made enough merits to put ashes in the temple.

It is even more difficult to enter the Pantheon. It must have made a great contribution to Dionia and even influenced the development of the entire kingdom.

After entering the temple, it is a great honor to write a biography for the monument and pass it on to future generations.

Since the establishment of Dionia, Heraclid has been the only one for more than ten years, and now there is Kuno Gorata. For many elders and officials, Kuno Gorata’s funeral has become their envy And the goal to strive for, this is what Davos hopes.

For ordinary people, they don’t have such a big goal. Cremation in the main temple of Hades after death is their greatest hope, because the cremation of ordinary corpses is carried out in ordinary temples of Hades. Only citizens who have made meritorious deeds may apply for the qualification to be cremated in the main temple of Hades.

The person who approves this application is not the Senate, but the priests of the Temple of Hades. The final decision rests in the hands of Davos, because he is not only the king, but also the high priest of the kingdom, who is in the minds of the people. Descendants of Hades.

However, under normal circumstances, he would let the priests headed by Plessinas decide. In the end, he could just take a look. Only the death of an important person in the kingdom requires him to make a final decision, whether to enter the Hall of Valhalla, the Pantheon, Qualifications for the Temple of Death and the Hell of the Wicked.

After Kunogolata’s funeral, the rugby finals continued and everything seemed to be back to normal.

Only the senators felt the slight change. The candidate for the rotating chairman of the Senate increased Antaoris, and his seat was also moved forward to the central area of the front row of the venue.

When Dionysus was first established, the position of the rotating chairman of the Senate was held by the elders in turn, and it only played a role in maintaining order in the venue and had no real power.

After the South-Italian War, Davos became the king. On the grounds that “there are too many new senators and they are not familiar with the operation of the Dionysian government”, he no longer let all the senators serve as the rotating chairman, but designated Several elders came to take turns to hold this position, usually every ten days.

At the same time, he also asked the Senate to give the rotating chairman more responsibilities and let them be responsible for organizing each meeting of the Senate, and the main topics of each meeting were decided by King Davos and the rotating chairman on duty. When Firth attended the meeting, he had to upload it to ensure that the meeting was carried out according to the wishes of the king.

When Davos is absent from the meeting, he has the right to ensure the smooth progress of the meeting. He can even command the guards to expel the elders who interfered with the meeting. He only needs to report the meeting results to Davers after the meeting.

It is precisely because of the increased power of the rotating chairman that this position has become an important symbol for measuring the status of a senator in the Senate.

Previously, the rotating chairmen of the Dionysian Senate were Kunogolata, Cornerus, Sedorum, Vespa, and Lycias.

Today, Kuno Gorata has passed away, and Antaoris has filled the void.

Also, there is one more change.

Since Laodician and other Sicilian elders committed dereliction of duty this time, some officials from Naxos, Sikuli, and Catane were also involved in this matter and were investigated. They were all recommended by these elders who committed crimes. Therefore, Davos took this opportunity to get angry in the Senate. He believed that the reason why the management committee of the kingdom officials failed to check the selection of middle and low-level officials was because they were influenced by too many other elders in the Senate. Fair selection of officials, and the appointment of middle and low-level officials should not have been interfered by the Senate…

At the beginning of the establishment of the alliance, the responsibility of the official management committee was to draw up candidates for public officials in the cities of the alliance, and finally Davos reviewed and signed them. Implemented, but each time the candidates on the list will be read out in the Senate to let the senators know, and sometimes they will object to some of the candidates, the committee will make some adjustments based on their opinions, and Davos will not Do too much obstruction, because that’s Davos in control of the Senate, so everything is under his control.

In the past few years, with the expansion of the territory and the increase of officials, Davos spent half of the time in the palace handling political affairs, and the control of the committee could not be as strict as before.

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This time, Davos requested that the office of the official management committee of the kingdom be relocated to the palace, and that the appointment of officials should no longer be discussed in the Senate. Of course, some of the elders objected, but he quietly threatened that he was considering whether to let Sesta investigates officials in other cities of the kingdom to avoid a series of malfeasance cases like those in Sicily.

In the end, Davos’ proposal was passed, and the committee was moved to the second floor of the palace.

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The day after Kunogolata’s funeral, Kerethorpes was received by Davos.

For Sparta’s request to “renew the original contract that was about to expire for another ten years”, Davos and the Senate agreed to this request without much argument.

After all, the center of gravity of the Kingdom of Dionia was in Italy, followed by Sicily. Neither Davos nor the elders had much interest in getting involved in the disputed Greek mainland.

The previous quiet ten years gave Dionia enough time to absorb refugees, expand the population, develop agriculture, trade, and expand the land… Of course, they still want to continue to have such a peaceful surrounding political environment.