Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece

In order to maintain the friendship with Sparta, Dionysius had to move the Mesenians from the city of Messina and build Tindarui in an unobtrusive place not far from Messina Come here to house these Mesenians.

The reconstruction of Messina and the new construction of Tindaris put Li Jim on the other side of the strait on the back. The Li Jim people felt that Dionysius was coveting their own 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 the east of Sicily, but also basically conquered the Sikels. The strength is too amazing. Are other city-states in the South Italian Alliance willing to fight against the powerful Syra for Lijim? Cuzha, this is a big question!The only one who dares to call Pansyracuse is probably only the southern Italian overlord Dionia.

As a result, the Lijim held a civic conference, and the discussions had been fruitless for several days.

At this moment, a fleet of Syracuse sailed into the port of Messina. The original fleet was for the Syracuse army to continue to march west on the north coast of Sicily to protect the escort. Jim, the civic assembly quickly passed the bill, and the messenger was quickly dispatched to Turi.

In the Dionysian Senate, when the envoy of Lijim proposed that "Lijim was willing to join the Dionysian League", the veterans including Davers were quite shocked.You should know that in the Dionysian League, Laos, Castellon, Metapontum, Elia, Heraclea, and Galaguço are all small and medium-sized city states in southern Italy, Potenti Although Asia was a big state in the alliance, the soldiers who were forced by the situation and faced with Dionysia were forced to join. They were not very obedient to Dionysia, and Dionysia was busy rectifying and Governing Bruti and Picoxis, there is no time to ignore Potentia, which is far from the mountainous edge of northern Dionia.

Now Lijim has voluntarily requested to join the Dionysia League!It is important to know that Lijim is not only a strong state in Greater Greece, but also the largest city-state in terms of maritime trade wealth.With the addition of Lijim, Dionysia's merchant ships and fleets can smoothly pass through the Strait of Messina, which not only facilitates trade with the Iberia and Gaul regions, such as the Far West Mediterranean.At the same time, it is also more conducive to the navy to guard Dionysia's cities on the west coast of Italy, Knapetia and Picos, as well as the confederate states of Laos and Elia, to connect Dionysia's territorial waters.

The veterans of Dionysia were of course extremely happy to be prepared to accept Lijim’s joining, but the Lijim messenger put forward a prerequisite: Dionysian ruler Daveus must marry a Lijim woman, and this A woman, Lijim has also been selected, her name is Agnes.

Who is Agnes?She was hailed as "the rose of Lijim", and she was very beautiful when she was 16 years old. She even attracted the proposal of Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse. As a result, she was firmly rejected by the vigilant Lijim.

The angry Syracuse messenger threw a sentence: "Our all-powerful general will open his eyes and see who is more qualified than him to marry Agnes!"

Then, Dionysius turned to marry the woman in Lockley, and decorated the passenger ship that greeted his Lockley wife with jewels, decorated with golden light, which became a hot topic in Great Greece at that time.

In Lijim, Agnes had never been able to marry because of the words dropped by the envoy of Syracuse, because as Syracuse continued to expand and became stronger, not only Lijim’s men, The entire city-state did not want to anger Dionysius, thus making Lijim the target of the angry tyranny of Syracuse.

As a result, in the past few years, Agnes is already a 21-year-old single woman (Greek women generally get married after 14 years old, that is, they can get married at the end of adolescence), but no one dares to marry and has to become a Greek The priest of Arthenius, the famous virgin god among the gods.

The real-life Ligis now facing the threat of Syracuse believe that Daves is the real power of Dionysia, so he wants to tie Dafus with Lijim through Agnes, Deal with Dionysius together.

Daphes saw through the thoughts of the Lijim and immediately refused.

Who knows a few days later, the Lijim messenger actually persuaded most of the elders of the senate, even including Mercis, Marigi, Kunogolata, Cornelius, etc., to visit Dai Firth, hoping that he could agree to Li Jim’s request, and also refuted the law that Daveus said "to obey Dionysia’s monogamy" because there is no such toughness in Dionysia’s law This is just a customary habit. Even in Athens, which once explicitly stated "monogamy", during the Great Plague before the Peloponnesian War, it also advocated polygamy because of the drastic reduction in population.

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

They also refuted concerns that Davers believed that Dionia would be dragged into the war with Syracuse by Lijim.Felicius, Antonios, and others believed that: Despite the seemingly strong Syracuse, the Carthaginians will always be its enemy. How dare Dionysius run the risk of fighting on both sides and offend the same Powerful Dionysia.

In fact, the news from Sicily seems to prove this: the Siracusa army swept west along the north coast of Sicily and began to approach the city of Soros, finally letting Dionysius lead the army to siege. Taoromenian's angry Carthage senate finally made up his mind and appointed Sirmico's younger brother Marco as commander-in-chief, recruiting soldiers and preparing to head for Sicily again to resist the attacks of Syracuse.

For the veteran in charge of government affairs in the Dionysian hospital, accepting Lijim is not a big risk, but on the contrary, it has benefited a lot; for the veteran in charge of the military, Lijim has a stronger naval fleet, which can just make up for Dai The shortcomings of Onia.

Persuaded by everyone, Daphes was hesitant.At this time, his wife Christoya stood up, expressed support for the senate's hope that Davis would marry another Li Jim's wife, and advised Davis to accept Agnes.

Christosia, who was born in Miletus, Asia Minor, was influenced by Persian culture from an early age, and was not very resistant to polygamy. At the beginning, there were more than a dozen concubines in Jurus.And already a successful businessman, she knew the importance of Li Jim's surrender to Dionysia's business.

Davis was finally persuaded to marry 21-year-old Ligem woman Agnes into the official residence of the Dionysian governor, and Ligem also successfully joined the Dionysian League.

This incident shocked the entire Great Greece.

When Dionysius heard the news, he was besieging the army and besieging Soros. He had already ordered the retreat, but he ordered again: to sound the offensive bugle...

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In these two years, on the land of Asia Minor, the Greek coalition led by De Kiridas caused great trouble to Persia.

So in 396 BC, the Persian king Artaxerxes, on the proposal of his mother, appointed: the Athenian Konon who was resident in Persia as the Admiral of the Persian navy (Konon was originally the commander of the Athenian navy, and was defeated in the battle of the Yanghe River) Laishande to Sparta eventually caused Athens to surrender to Sparta).

Konon fled to Persia and has always forged his revenge on Sparta, so he often went to please the Queen of Persia, Palusatis.Now that the military power is finally in hand, he immediately led 300 Persian warships and actively cooperated with the Persian land forces, which soon caused great casualties and caused difficulties for the Spartan army.

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

At this time, Sparta, who was already the Greek hegemon, was reluctant to accept peace talks when the war was passive. Not only would the conditions for peace talks be very unfavorable to Sparta, but it would also damage Sparta’s prestige in the Greek city-state.As a result, the Council of Elders decided to send King Agsilaus to replace De Kiridas and wage a greater war in Asia Minor.

Agsilaus has always shown his approachability and humility to the Spartans, but under the mask of observing Spartan traditions and laws, he hides an ambition that was never known.He longed for great glory, worshipped ancient heroes, hoping to use unprecedented victories to make the world forget his lameness and only remember his merits.So when he accepted the order from the council of elders, he already thought of himself as the Agamemnon of this era, to conquer the new Troy, Persia.

Therefore, he led a part of the army to the city of Oris (it is located in the Piosia region, the most famous city-state in this region is Thebes), just like the king of the kings Agamemnon commanded the entire Greek army. Before crossing the sea to attack Troy, he made sacrifices to the Temple of Artemis there.

But during the solemn worship, the Thebes appeared. They claimed that the Spartans did not inform Thebes, thus forcibly interrupting the ceremony.

This incident cast a shadow on Sparta and Thebes, who were already in a tense relationship.For Agsilaus, who is extremely self-respecting, this is a shame!From then on he remembered Thebes.

Finally, Agsi Laos led an army of two thousand Spartan new citizens and a 30-member military committee, including Laishande, quietly crossed the sea to Asia Minor and entered Ephesus.

Laishande thought that he was the Agassius he supported. After arriving in Asia Minor, this gentle king will rely on him as the true "king" who conquered Asia Minor, and will give the command of the Spartan army to In his hands.