Crossing the Continent in the Eighteenth Century

() The name of the Thalia Theater is the same as that of Dione Street and a certain coffee house, and it is also selected from the gods in Greek mythology.According to legend, the union of the main god Zeus and the goddess of memory Mnemosyne gave birth to the nine muses, while Thalia was in charge of the drama.

Naming buildings and blocks after ancient Greek and Roman mythological gods and ancient Roman emperors is a habit formed by the residents of Constantinople who rebuilt their homes on the ruins.So in addition to the Thalia Theater on Tia Street, there are more than a dozen theaters called Thalia in Constantinople.It's just that the Thalia Theater, which rose from the ground more than 100 years ago, far surpasses them both in terms of scale and performance level.This was unimaginable in the Middle Ages.Because this kind of behavior can be regarded as worshiping evil gods, and in Christianity, worshiping other gods means death.

Don't think that Christians who were born barbarians in Western Europe only do this, and there are many people in the east who do it.In the past, I thought that since the Renaissance started in the fifteenth century was due to the lost manuscripts of the Byzantine Empire and escaped scholars and artists, then the culture of the Byzantine Empire, which inherited the robes of the Roman Empire, must be very bright and brilliant.Actually, the answer is yes and no.The culture of the Byzantine Empire is indeed brilliant, but this glory is only one-sided.

From the establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire until its demise, for more than 1000 years, there has never been another Quintus Horace Flaccus who wrote "The Art of Poetry" in the entire empire. Germany's "Metamorphosis", "The Art of Love" and "Three Essays on Love", and no one has written the magnificent "Aenea" comparable to "Homer's Epic" like Publius Vigilius Maro. Siji".That's right, neither the exquisite mosaic murals nor the magnificent cathedral can conceal the fact that the culture of the Byzantine Empire in the 1000-year civilization is the culture that was castrated by the church with a knife.

In the past, Italy was rich because of its proximity to Constantinople and because of the pitfalls of the Roman Empire. Later, the collapse of the Roman Empire allowed a large number of scholars and artists living in it to flee there, which in turn made the Italian peninsula a hotbed of the Renaissance. .But in this world, Constantinople was not breached, so after the Black Death, Constantinople became the biggest birthplace of the Renaissance.

My ex's son is largely responsible for this.Although he intended to weaken the influence of the church and consolidate the imperial power, he indirectly promoted the weakening of the church's control over the faith!Penny Weiss, no, forget it, I think it is more appropriate to call her a literary girl from now on.Literary girls and a large group of art lovers are the biggest beneficiaries of that guy after all his troubles.

He took off his conspicuous robe and put it on the carriage.I asked the groom to take a waiter home to explain the situation, and the other took my message to her house in the carriage of the literary girl's house.After the arrangement, I caught up with the two art lovers in front from behind.

In the distance, I saw Hans standing on one side with a black line on his head. It turned out that it was a literary girl and a literary youth talking about a very magical object.

"In ethics, Plotinus believed that the soul tends to nature, and the soul overflows from reason. Plotinus also said that the soul as the third body is what Plato called the world soul. It is a dynamic force. Its dynamism is manifested in its ever-changing nature, being active in various fields, and when it is divided among individual things, it acts as an internal driving force for things to change."

"Yes, Neoplatonism is convinced that there are two poles in the world, one end is a light source called God, and the other end is darkness where the light source does not shine, and we are in it, but Neoplatonism emphasizes that total darkness does not exist , just lacks an opportunity to shine. Because our soul is closest to God, as long as we realize and practice, we can transform into light and merge with the light source called God!"

...I suddenly understood why Hans stood here with a black line on his head: "Are they discussing Neo-Platonism?"

Hans turned back: "If I heard correctly, I think so."

"However, isn't this doctrine that the saint Augustine borrowed has something to do with the construction of religious philosophy? What does a fountain statue peeing with a penis have to do with Plotinus' neo-Platonism?"

I suddenly found that Hans's face was similar to Yao Ming's when he smiled.

"Hehehe, yes, who knows what is related to it? I don't know either."

Before Hans finished speaking, Frederick over there gave the answer: "The statue is so beautiful. The creator of the statue must have let God ignite the creative light of his soul through his own perception, so that he created Such beautiful art!"

I also followed the black line in my head!

When a literary girl in Rome meets a young literary artist from Germany, the sparks between the two are enough to be described as dazzling.

From Constantine Square to Tea Street, two people can talk about Socrates to Gauls when they meet a century-old shop. After talking about "Dutch Epic", they talked about an unheard of "Ten Days Talk". I happened to bump into an ancient statue from the Justinian period, and now I am talking endlessly about Procopius, a historian at the end of classical Roman history, from his praise of Justinian in "War Records" to "Secret History" on Chase Great contrast to the criticism of Emperor Dini the Great.

At any rate, I thought I was a knowledgeable young man with 5000 years of knowledge and hundreds of years of knowledge, but facing these two people, I was willing to bow down and stand aside from a distance, pretending that I didn't know them.

When the Grand Theater arrived, the literary girl finally remembered that there was me alone, she seemed to be in a good mood, smiling like a little fox, "Why are you still here in a daze, hurry up and buy tickets! Four tickets! Top class !"

The shape of the current theater is developed from the ancient Greek open-air theater. The semicircular structure allows the audience to see the performance on the stage no matter where they sit in the auditorium.Ordinary tickets for the front row are more expensive than those for the back row, and the number of boxes and upper-class rooms is limited, so few people can buy tickets without making an appointment.So the literary girl really gave me a problem, but I know it's not her intention to make things difficult.Presumably, she was usually arranged by a housekeeper or family members in the theater, and she didn't know the rules of the theater.

Sure enough, as I expected, we came early today, but all the tickets for the boxes were sold out, while the ordinary tickets were basically empty.

If Morris was around, there was only one solution to this non-problem.I dare say, that guy will definitely blurt out immediately, "Let's go to rob, how about it? Find a sack, cover your face, then squat in a remote corner, stop the carriage, and you'll have a ticket." Well, then Constance will There will be a sentence like "Time is running short, where did you get the information showing that there are remote corners on the way for those ticket holders?"In the end, Valens will combine the views of the two to give a modified and feasible plan "rob the owner of this theater or the head of the crew, and threaten them to give us their boxes."

The idea of ​​robbing the owner of the theater or the head of the crew is indeed feasible.If I remember correctly, when a theater starts to perform, the owner of the theater and crew have to guard the venue for coordination, and the theater will specially arrange a box for them.

I laughed so that the waitress was puzzled for a while, and took out 10 Soridos: "Give me ten tickets that are connected together and have better sightlines."

I took the ticket and the Dinar and Aspen I found out, said nothing, and walked down the steps of the Grand Theater.

I held four ordinary tickets in my hand and put them in front of everyone. The literary girl immediately became dissatisfied, and she muttered: "Didn't you agree to go to the first-class box? Why can't you even give up this little money?"

"Miss Penny Weiss, the boxes in the theater generally need to be reserved. If you want to postpone this compensation until the next performance, I can guarantee that you will definitely sit in the box." I put the ticket in front of Hans , "You draw one."

After Hans took it, Frederick also took one and said, "I've never sat in an ordinary ticket seat since I was a child, so this time I really didn't come to Constantinople in vain."

After the bitter-faced literary girl heard this, she immediately smiled.I glanced at Frederick, and the literary youth chuckled and blinked pointedly.Four tickets, Hans and Frederick drew one each, and there are two left, I gave the choice priority to the literary girl.This is style.

She snatched a ticket, took a few steps first, touched the ground with one foot, and made a beautiful maneuver. She smiled and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to eat some good food!"

The so-called delicious food in the mouth of the literary girl is actually ice cream.Another predecessor invention!

In the restaurant where many young girls came and went, after Frederick ate this thing in one bite, he had only one emotion in his mouth: "I really wish there was something that could record this happy moment."

Yes, the camera, but it wasn't invented...

Looking for a painter?Good idea, but it usually takes ten days and half a month to paint, and very few of them take half a year.Every pose can show muscle stiffness and myocardial infarction.

"Why don't we write a poem to commemorate this day?"

"God, you're so smart! How could I have never thought of that!"

The literary girl was very satisfied with Frederick's expression of astonishment and then excitement.

"Hmph, he wrote a popular novel!" The literary girl's face was raised high, and the ceiling was almost pierced like that.

Ignoring the two Wenqings, I carefully looked at the ice cream on the table, dare this thing have the function of adding a literary atmosphere?

Frederick continued, "How about we each have a sixteen-line poem?"

Well, it seems that in addition to increasing literature and art, it can also increase the characteristics of people's madness... This thing can't be touched by Morris.