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Chapter 1256 The Little Prince

The two were moved by what Davos said in his letter that "a grand and unique sports meeting will be held", so they came.

In order to show respect for them, Davers invited them to the royal stand.

As soon as the two entered, they were attracted by the band entering the venue.

"What's the name of this music? It sounds like a very good melody." Xenophon, like many Dionian allies, was moved by this light and powerful melody and asked curiously.

Before Davos could answer, Plato took over: "'March', this is a piece that must be played during the march of the Dionysian army, and was composed by King Davos."

Xenophon was surprised: "I didn't expect you, Davos, to be talented in this area!"

When Xenophon spoke to Davos in private, he still used to use the common titles he used in Persia, and Davos never paid attention to it. At this moment, he said humbly: "These are all from the great Hades. The inspiration and final completion are all the work of the palace musicians.”

"The music sounds great! But how can we bring so many different instruments and so many musicians together to play such a harmonious and beautiful melody instead of creating a chaotic and noisy sound?!"

Not only Xenophon was surprised, but almost all the Greek people in the audience were surprised, because traditional Greek music is mostly played by a single instrument, with occasional ensembles, and it is also performed between a few instruments and a few musicians, such as Such a huge band and so many musical instruments (some of which were from other races and unknown to the Greeks) in the venue were performing in a large ensemble, completely beyond their knowledge of music, and they were all curious: Who are the Dionians? How to control such a large band and make it produce a grand, thick and layered melody?

"Do you know Philosanus?" Plato asked Xenophon.

"Of course I know. He was once a musical poet in Syracuse..." Xenophon hesitated and did not continue.

Philosanus was quite original in the format and melody of musical poetry, so he was well-known in Greece. He also published poems at sports events in Greece.After he joined Dionia, he made a greater breakthrough in music poetry. However, because some of his poems included chapters praising Hades and King Davos, he was publicly condemned by several priests of the Holy Land. , was not favored by the senior officials of the local Greek city-states, but many Greek scholars treasured his poems in private and carefully appreciated his improvements in music and poetry formats and rhymes.

"Philosanus was a teacher at the School of Liberal Arts of the Dionian Academy. In addition to teaching students how to write poetry, he was also studying how to make different instruments play harmonious melodies together. I once saw him organize The students played music, as they do now, and lo and behold, the old man standing at the head of the orchestra was Philosanus!”

The reason why Plato is so familiar with Philosanus is that after he was expelled by the Athenian people during the Greek War, he ran to Thurii with his students, accepted the invitation of Davos, and served as Dio for a short time. A teacher at Nia Academy, he also carefully visits other teachers and students in his spare time to study the operating mechanism of the entire academy, hoping to learn from it and improve the teaching of Akademi Academy.

At this time, the band had already circled the field and entered the center of the field to line up near the royal stand, but the music continued.

"So that's it." Although Xenophon also collected the poems of Philosanus, he had never seen him. He stared closely at the old man in front of the band who kept pointing with a wooden stick, and suddenly realized Said: "If you want such a huge band to play a harmonious melody, you need a commander, just like the commander of the army, who is responsible for arranging the troops and arranging who attacks first and who attacks last, so that we can fully Bring out the strength of soldiers to win..."

Xenophon deserves to be a scholar with both civil and military skills who wrote "On Cavalry", using war as a metaphor.But the conductor of the band is not so simple. Feroxanus has made some achievements after so many years of research... But Daves is not going to explain more to discourage Xenophon.

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Although Olympia did not send priests to participate in the training and selection of the Dionia Games referee team, because Dionia promised that the games would not be dedicated to Hades, Olympia still accepted the invitation and sent a priest. As a representative, come and watch the sports meeting.

The Olympian priest Pesias sat in the VIP seat with a critical and prudent attitude. While other distinguished guests were surprised by the splendor and excitement of Hades's main arena and moved by the band's performance, he was surprised by the performance of the band. Scoff: The Games are the Greeks' respect for gods and love for sports. These sensational things are useless!

At this time, he heard the host shouting: "Now please invite the referee team of this sports meeting to enter!"

He suddenly cheered up.

The band's performance also changed from "March" to "Ode to Hades".

Accompanied by the quiet and solemn melody, more than 200 priests in white robes entered the arena in a loose column. Walking at the front was a young man from Turiyi School. He solemnly held up a ball with the words " A wooden sign with the words "Judge Panel".

Following the young man was an old priest with a smile. When he looked towards the audience, the Dionian audience suddenly became excited: "It's Cardeas as the priest!!!"

10 years ago, Chaldeas was transferred back to the Turii region to serve as the priest in charge because of his outstanding missionary achievements in the Roman area. In recent years, Plesinas, due to his old age and lack of energy, had brought the entire Turii region to the throne. All the affairs of the Temple of Hades were handed over to him, and Plessinas also recommended him as his successor. With Davos's approval, he will be promoted to the priest of the scepter at the end of the year.

At this time, as the chief referee of the entire referee team, he walked in front of the team.

As the referee team moved forward, the Dionian audience sang the hymns of various gods loudly, because more and more priests of various temples were recognized by the people outside the stadium.

The Greek audiences were surprised that there were many priests in the referee team who looked obviously different from the Greeks. Through the singing of the nearby Dionian audience, they learned that some of these aliens came from the Temple of Hades, and some from Other foreign temples, such as the Temple of Savone in Samolea, the Temple of Mahala in Bruti, the Temple of Barhamon in Carthage, the Temple of Diana in Rome...

Although Olympia had also received notice from Dionia about "the priests of various temples forming a referee group" in advance, at this moment Pesias saw so many priests of different gods and races walking so quietly and obediently on the field. In the same team, I couldn't help but take a deep breath, and suddenly felt a little uneasy about being isolated: Are we the only Olympians and Delphic priests who didn't participate? !

At this moment, he suddenly heard a Dionia elder next to him say in surprise: "The boy holding the sign seems to be His Majesty Davos's grandson, Christopher?"

"It doesn't seem to be the case, he is! My youngest son is a classmate with him. This time he was not selected to participate in the opening ceremony of the sports meeting. He cried with me when he came home."

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The heated discussion among Dionian officials at the VIP table naturally attracted the attention of the Greek city-state envoys. After Dionia became the overlord of the Greek world, they would of course have a detailed understanding of the Dionian royal family: Hades .Davos Christode, the grandson of King Davos of Dionia and the son of Crown Prince Clotokatax. According to the eldest son inheritance system of the Dionia royal family, he is likely to become the next King of Ren.

In the early days of the establishment of Dionysia, royal members of the generation of Cynthia and Clotokatax were studying at the Turiine City School (the school was located in the easternmost part of the Craty River Delta, next to the Dionysia School). Garden), the population of Turii was not large at that time, and the children of citizens of the inner city and the outer city were studying in the schools of the inner city of Turii, so most people of Turii knew the royal family members.By the time Christode was studying, due to the expansion of the population of Thurii City and the complete establishment of the royal prestige, not only was it difficult for children in the outer city of Thurii to attend schools in the inner city, but there was also a palace when Christode was in school. Guard protection, so it is normal that most of the Dionia audience did not recognize him when they first entered the venue today.

After his identity was revealed and the eyes of thousands of viewers were focused on him, the young Christophe would inevitably feel nervous. Fortunately, Chalcedis behind him kept comforting him with gentle words: "My child, Don’t be afraid! The audience has no ill intentions. On the contrary, they are happy that there is a successor to the Hades royal family. Listen, they are cheering for you! You should give them a smile and express your gratitude to them!”

Christode's personality is more like his father's, and he was taken by his grandmother to teach him carefully when he was very young. He is very particular about how to treat others, so although he is still a little nervous, he still holds the wooden sign tightly. , turned his head and tried his best to smile at the audience.

The cheers from the audience grew louder.

Soon, he walked to the front of the royal stand and clearly saw his family standing in front of the railing at the front of the stand: kind grandparents, gentle father, stern mother, gentle aunt (Cynthia) ), the relatively withdrawn second uncle (Apox), the childish uncle, the beautiful sister-in-law... all waved to him and smiled at him.

(End of this chapter)