Lekgus, which stands for a name, was a politician and legislator of Sparta during the ancient Greek period, and his statutes laid the foundation for Sparta to become a military-power state.

Legend has it that in 610 BC he implemented the "Good Law" to militarize the Spartan state and determine the powers of the king, the procurators, the council of elders, and the assembly of citizens.

In Greek, the name Lykgus means masculine and tough—indeed, Western legends like the "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" speak for themselves, and the founder of all these traditions was indeed a strong, strong man.

As for the "Lyquegus Cup" that Jerry Goodencowan exclaimed, it was not a product of the ancient Greek era, but of the ancient Romans, because as far as he knew, the ancient records were called that.

As for the reason, perhaps the prototype of the character on the cup is Lekergus.

However, it does not appear in the heyday of ancient Rome, but hundreds of years later, after the separation of Eastern and Western Rome.

It is difficult to say which Roman Empire craft it is, because this legendary cup was only mentioned in the early Middle Ages, and the cup should have appeared around the early or mid-5th century AD, of course, it is not excluded that there were earlier, this is not clear, otherwise it would not be a "legendary thing".

The magic of the Lyquegus cup is that it is said to be made of two-color color-changing glass, which has a very unique optical property - the cup appears green when the light hits it from the front, which means that it is usually dark green.

But when the light hits from behind, the cup takes on a bright red color!

Well, the use of light to separate colors is a feature discovered by modern people, such as Zhang Nan, there was no flashlight in ancient Europe, and the legend at that time did not use light to send this kind of wine glass to the legendary altar!

How did the ancient Romans embody the magic of this cup in the first place?

It's written in ancient books, but no one has tried it before - how can you try it without a cup?

Even if there is a cup, who is willing to try?

There are people in the workshop who don't know what the Rykergus Cup is, and after Jerry Gooden's preliminary explanation, this is a general idea.

Amazing craft!

How did Zhang Nan find out?

It was a flash, and just now he noticed the red color of that moment, and then he thought that this time he should have gotten a few rare objects that he would like!

I'm in a good mood, and Jerry is excited!

"Boss, the Rykergus Cup has long been lost, this is the first ever discovered in modern times, and the other cups here should be..."

Zhang Nan shook his head and interrupted him: "No, Jerry, there is a similar one in the British Museum, but they haven't made it public." ”

Jerry Goodencowan was stunned, "Why don't you make it public, this is an amazing discovery." ”

The black technology of ancient Europe, almost all the peoples of the world like to show off their history, including all magical craftsmanship.

"I guess it's lest some people be unhappy, regretful, or they don't care about the big business, there are too many good things. ”

Regret?

That's where it starts.

Everyone had questions, and Zhang Nan had to say again: "The Lequegus Cup in the British Museum, I remember that it should have been given by someone in the Rothschild family more than a hundred years ago, but it was probably only a precious ancient Roman glass wine glass, I don't know that it was the Lequegus Cup."

The man had been collecting it for a long time and hadn't found the magic of the cup, otherwise it would have been made public, at least in a small circle.

By the way, it may be that the museum people are still trying to figure out why this cup can change color like this, who knows. ”

Zhang Nan said this, no one will not know why he knows that there is such a cup in the British Museum, it is normal to have a secret that the boss knows and does not know, and the boss tells you to listen to it, don't ask more.

Some secrets can be said, some secrets Zhang Nan will never tell - the strange color-changing effect of this goblet was discovered in 1990, but the museum staff and some scientific researchers studied it for more than 20 years, and it was not until 2013 that the mystery was solved: the glass fragments of the goblet were examined under a microscope and found that gold and silver metal particles were dissolved in the glass, which were about 50 nanometers in diameter.

The ancient Romans used their wisdom to interpret one of the unique uses of nanotechnology, which is different from the modern use of color-changing glass containing silver bromide and trace amounts of copper oxide.

When the optics irradiate the metal particles inside the glass of the Leckergos glass, the electrical vibration of the metal particles can change the color of the glass, depending on the angle from which the observer is looking at it.

This is the conclusion of experts in the field of glass and optics, but the Lyquegus cup is not so simple: archaeologists have analyzed that the Lyquegus cup was used in ancient Rome to serve drinks on special occasions, and when the drink was filled with the goblet, the charge vibrations of the metal particles changed and their color changed.

Unfortunately, after discovering the magic of that cup, those scientists and archaeologists couldn't fill the Luckgus cup with liquid for testing, so what if there was a problem?

But there are exceptions, what if you meet someone who dares to do so?

For example, Zhang Nan, who can drink a bowl of rice wine with a Chenghua chicken bowl cup, has eaten a meal with a Qianlong imperial enamel color apricot forest Chunyan picture bowl, and put a huge Yuan blue and white ground white flower cloud shoulder phoenix pattern rhombic flower mouth plate in his own study of the manor as a fruit plate, maybe it will restore the role that this Lekgers cup should have 15 centuries ago.

Fruit bowl in the study?

Normally, Zhang Nan likes to eat fruits, and besides, he has a lot of Yuan blue and white plates, and it is not too outrageous to put a very sturdy one on the low coffee table in the study - he has two study rooms, and the one where the plates are placed is a really quiet place to read books, and it is difficult for the plates to fall.

But this time, Zhang Nan won't take a cup to drink, at least until it is completely cleaned up.

"Put it away first. ”

Jerry immediately brought a plastic storage box of the right size and separated it with a new towel pad, so that such interesting artifacts should be treated specially, and the cleanup work should not be rushed, at least until it is brought to the construction site below.

After this magical cup was stored, Zhang Nan took out the second cup from the silver box, and after seeing the pattern on the outer wall of the cup clearly, he smiled and said to the side: "It seems that I can change the name of this kind of cup, causing a chaotic war in the academic world." ”

At first glance, it looks exactly the same as the previous cup, but the main body of the relief pattern on the outer wall of this cup is no longer the naked-naked-man who may represent "Lykgus", but a man fighting with a lion, and the figure is very different: this should be Hercules, the god of Hercules in ancient Greek mythology!