Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 3077 Libator ([-])
Attica is the region where Athens, the capital of Greece, is located, and it is also the name of this region in ancient Greece.

Because the land was barren, it was not coveted by other city-states, and it lived a settled life early.

As Pomona walks down the stairs, he somehow thinks of Rita Lestrange's expression in the Père Lachaise cemetery—the dramatic numbness of meeting her final fate.

Maybe Themistocles had the same expression when he explained the Delphic oracle to the Athenians... No, it shouldn’t be like this, it should be the expression he received when he was expelled from Athens by pottery fragments, even though he used The impassioned language "It is not the gorgeous houses or strong walls that make a city-state, but the people who dare to meet the challenge. As long as the citizens of Athens are still there, they will not worry about making a comeback. And the mighty Sparta has neither Gorgeous temples, not to mention a solid city wall, but this did not prevent them from dominating the Peloponnese.”

Language is indeed powerful, but don’t believe it too much. When it was decided whether the patron saint of Athens was Athena or Poseidon, whoever can provide the most useful things to the people of Athens will become the guardian of the city. god.Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and conjured a war horse.And Athena conjured an olive tree.

In addition to the so-called war and sorrow, peace and prosperity, the most critical thing is the terrain of Athens. Hector is called "the one who tames horses". The terrain of Troy is a wide plain, so that there is enough space for the coalition forces to Formation.Athens is mountainous, and the olive trees can provide olive oil and honey, which were very valuable in ancient Greece.

It is not surprising that in ancient Greek city-states, 80% of the population was engaged in agriculture. However, the land in Attica was not fertile, which forced people in this area to engage in maritime trade, sell olive oil and honey, and then buy Return food and handicraft raw materials, etc.

The naval battle of Salamis was not only a victory, but also a formal transformation of Athens, from relying on the heavy infantry formed by wealthy peasants to relying on the navy at the bottom of the city.

In 487 BC, the first banishment of pottery was carried out on a relative of the tyrant, who fled to Persia.

Even the once powerful Egypt has become a province of Persia and has been exploited by the Persians. What can Athens resist against Persia?

At that time, the citizens' assembly was reformed by Solon, and it was no longer held for dividing up the spoils as it was in Troy.The citizens gave up the dividends of the Laurion mine, which was 10 drachma silver coins per person, and used the proceeds from the state-owned silver mine of Laurion to build more than 100 trireme warships with attack angles, increasing the number of Athens warships from more than 70 to 200 ships, in terms of size, the Athenian navy is not much different from the "then" Persian navy.

Solon's reforms included the cancellation of debt slaves. Before the seventh century BC, people did not understand what benefits "citizenship" was for them. Politics belonged to the high-level affairs, and the bottom-level people were already exhausted when they considered food and clothing.

Sometimes some members of the Athenian tribes who lived in Attica for generations became slaves because of debts, and Solon defined "freedom" as Athenian citizens and slaves.

This can solidify some things and avoid status downgrading, but it also means that the bottom people lose the minimum living guarantee with their bodies as collateral.

In other words, this dividend is very important to some Athenian citizens who have no fixed income. Themistocles persuaded these people to become rowers of warships and let them become members of the "ship of the country".

In 480 BC, after the death of his father, King Xerxes of Persia led a coalition army of more than 1200 warships, more than 3000 auxiliary ships, and a total force of more than 20 to invade Greece by land and water.After being blocked by the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae, the Persian army went straight to Athens.

At the critical moment when their country was ruined and their family was ruined, the Athenians remembered the prediction made by the Temple of Delphi about the future of Athens:

When the enemy has plundered everything in the land of Cyclops and plundered the sacred valley of Kytaron, Zeus the visionary will give the people of Athena a wooden wall to protect your children and grandchildren. .
There are different opinions among the Greeks as to what the wooden wall is.Those priests and elders who argued for the wooden walls were talking about the wooden palisade fortifications on the Acropolis Hill.

Back then, the allied forces of Sparta and Argos also built a wooden city wall in Troy, but that wall was not blessed like the Trojan city wall.

So Themistocles "flexibly interpreted" the wooden walls as Athens' powerful navy - ancient ships were also made of wood.And Themistocles deliberately led the priests to let go of the sacred object of Athena raised in the Acropolis - a big snake, and disappeared with a big snake, telling the Athenians: The goddess has given up her city, everyone retreat temporarily.

It is an open secret that the Spartans wantonly misinterpreted the Delphic oracle and manipulated the results of the prophecy, but no one has heard of the Athenians doing so.

Retreat means giving up everything you already have, including the wealth accumulated for generations. The Persians didn't even leave any sculptures, and they moved Athens completely.

When some people think about whether they want money or life, some people think that there is no perfect egg in the crowd. After completing the retreat, a few days later, the Athenians saw from a distance that the top of the Acropolis, the pride of Athens, was on fire. There was billowing smoke.Those old stubborn who stayed in Athens died bravely in the end, and the rest of the living people became homeless refugees even though they were alive.

At the Greek Allied Forces Conference, the city-states from southern Greece, represented by Sparta, prepared to rely on the peninsula for defense and arbitrarily abandon the remaining parts of Athens to the Persians. They also ridiculed the Athenians as refugees who had lost their land. Themistocles Threatening Athens to withdraw from the coalition forces forced the Peloponnesians not to abandon the city-state of Athens.

After the naval battle of Salamis, the Athenians returned to their hometown and found that the city they had lived in for generations had been reduced to scorched earth and rubble, but the Athenians still rebuilt their city.

In Athens, Themistocles also began to be jealous of his compatriots, and people chose to expel him, not just someone who said he looked like a dictator.The recovered Athenians banished him for blasphemy, regardless of the benevolence of his motives.

When the center of Athens' activities moved from the mountains and forests to the ocean, Poseidon brought more benefits than Athena.

At the time of the Peloponnesian War, when all Athenians retreated within the long walls, no matter how poor the land of Attica, it still supported half the population of Athens.

At this time, the benefits of ocean trade emerged, but the Athenians needed to go to the Black Sea to buy wheat.

Is it really the prosperity brought about by settlement, not wandering around?
Some things are like rocks under a glacier, which even the power of a glacier cannot change.

Pericles saw Athens rise and fall, and not just because Thucydides said none of his successors could match him.

Mayflies are just mayflies, they live only day and night, and cannot see the change of winter and spring.

Eventually Mistocles was exiled, but his political strategy was passed on, and this is the meaning of community.

Perhaps Themistocles was not a native Athenian and did not have such a deep affection for the land.

But he became a lamentable tragedy. The Greeks love tragedies, although they spend a lot of money on various events and festivals.

"Let go of her!"

Pomona yelled, raising his wand.

In the end, she still felt that Rita Lestrange's "Grindelwald" voice was very powerful.

If life is a continuation at any cost, then destruction is a priceless luxury.

The idea of ​​destroying Paris, a city full of entertainment and glitz, is very creative, and at the same time, it is also a creative idea to use one's "useless life for meaningful things".

How is that destruction?That is obviously creation.

It's just "got," not a cobbler's suitcase, or something else that anchors "identity."

As for what to get?
Maybe there is nothing but a dream.

(End of this chapter)