Chapter 129: The Trojan War
On the other hand, Agamemnon, the leader of Mycenae, was also a descendant of Zeus, whose ancestor was Tantalus, the son of Zeus and Proto, the goddess of wealth, who ruled Siperios in Lydia, and was famous for his wealth with countless cattle and sheep and fertile farmland to be walked for 12 days. Not only that, but he is also deeply loved by the gods, and is the only mortal who is qualified to participate in the banquet of the gods. It's just that after Tantalus had too much contact with the gods, he gradually felt that these guys were nothing remarkable, and his arrogance grew day by day, and he actually killed his son Pelops into a dish at a banquet to test whether the gods could see through it, and was directly beaten into hell by the angry gods to be tortured forever.
And the son of Pelopus, who was inexplicably lying on the gun, was resurrected by the goddess of fate, Croto, and was later driven out of the country by the neighboring Trojan king Elos and exiled to Greece, became the king of Ilis and seized the city of Olympia, creating the world-famous Olympic Games, and many of his descendants have established their own kingdoms, and there are also many heroes, such as the Theseus.
Although this Pelops had a glorious life and was famous in Greece after his death, he also did a wrong thing, when the old king of Elis declared that only those who beat him in the car could win his daughter, Pelops bribed the old king's coachman, Miltiros, to replace the iron nails on the carriage with wax, so he fell to death in the car and won the princess to inherit the throne. However, when Pelops later asked him for payment in Miltiros, he not only failed to pay the bill, but also pushed Miltilus into the sea and drowned - Miltilus was the favorite son of the great god Hermes, although Hermes, a popular god, did not settle accounts with Pelops, but he made another note in his heart for the Tantalus family.
In addition, Pelops's sister Niopa gave birth to seven handsome sons and seven beautiful daughters because of her noble status, and got carried away and mocked Leto, the goddess of the night, who gave birth to only one pair of children, and the children were all killed by arrows from the sky, because although Leto had only one pair of children, their names were Apollo and Artemis.
Atreus, the son of Pelops, did the same thing as his ancestor Tantalus because his wife had fornicated with his brother, and chopped up several of his brother's sons and made them into dishes to feast his brother Tiestes; In order to take revenge, Tiestes followed the prophecy and masked his daughter, giving birth to Aeistus, who would kill Atreus in the future, and his daughter committed suicide in shame after learning the truth of the matter.
In the end, Atreus's sons Agamemnon and Menelaus defected to the kingdom of Sparta after their father's death, Agamemnon later returned to his hometown to take revenge on the kingdom of Mycenae, and his brother Menelaus inherited the throne of Sparta and married the adopted daughter of the king of Sparta, the beautiful Helen, who was seduced away by the Trojan prince Paris.
Therefore, although Agamemnon is now in high spirits as the commander of the Greek city-state alliance, his ancestors' heavy sins have long been doomed to his tragic end.
However, in this huge war, all the heroes and gods on both sides are just pawns, and it is still the gods who really decide the outcome of the battle. Since it was the early stage of the war, they were still standing in the sky and watching, but Ye Ye knew that when the war reached a fever pitch, they would not only make a bet behind their backs, but would tear their faces and end up in person.
The most determined god on the Greeks' side was undoubtedly Hera, the queen of heaven, and after her defeat at the Golden Apple Incident, she had disliked the Trojans because of Ganymedes, and the gods were deeply humiliated and determined to destroy the city that she hated.
Athena, the goddess of wisdom, was rarely on the same side as her, and although the city of Troy was built under her protection, she renounced her protection of the city when Raomedon dared to break the covenant with the gods, and she was also a loser of the Golden Apple.
And Poseidon, the emperor of the sea, has long wanted to roll up the waves and sink the city to the bottom of the sea, and now he will naturally not let go of this opportunity.
Hermes did not have the same strong feelings of dislike as the three gods, and although his son Eudoros and his descendant Odysseus were in the Greek alliance, he did not care much about the outcome of the war. It's just that Hermes, who is also a deceitful god and a very slippery head, must choose the side with a high chance of winning, so as long as his father Zeus does not express his position, he can't be wrong to follow Hera, the queen of heaven, so he also stood on the side of the Greeks and waved his flag but couldn't do anything, and immediately surrendered when he faced Leto, the goddess of the night.
The god of fire, Hephaestus, was loyal to his mother Hera, and was even lifted and thrown to the ground by the angry Zeus because he spoke for his mother Hera in the parents' quarrel, and since then he has been lame.
Finally, there is the goddess of the sea, Thetis, this goddess is not an Olympus line, but a descendant of the ancient sea god Pontus, when the Titans and giants fought on Mount Olympus, it was she who instructed Zeus to release the hundred-armed giants imprisoned in the abyss Tartarus and finally won the victory, so it has an important place on Mount Olympus. Since she was the mother of Achilles, the first hero of Greece, Aiko was much more determined to protect her son than most of the gods who watched the excitement.
On the other side, on Troy's side, Aphrodite, the goddess of love who won the golden apple, supported Troy very faithfully, but unfortunately war was really not what this god of beauty was good at, and she was slapped in the face again and again.
Ares, the god of war, as Aphrodite's passionate concubine, is the ancestor and patron saint of the Amazon women, an ally of Troy, and not many people in Greece believe in him, so he naturally chose to side with Troy. Helplessly, this empty god of war, but his record is completely unmatched, and he has been defeated by Athena many times before, so you can imagine how much help he can have.
In terms of strength, Apollo, the god of radiance, can be said to be the backbone of the Trojan side, originally he had the same experience as Poseidon should be on the side of the Greeks, but there are many reasons why he finally chose to stand on the side of Troy. First, he was the main object of worship in the city of Troy; Second, Kassandra, the daughter of the king of Troy, is the object of his current courtship, and Hector, the prince of Troy, is also his favorite warrior; Third, the Greek commander Agamemnon actually plundered his sacrificial daughter and refused to return it, which made Apollo lose face and sent the plague in anger, although the Greeks soon made amends in fear, but Apollo still had a very bad feeling for the Greek alliance.
Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, has a strong political stance, she is where her brother is, and her mother, Leto, the goddess of the night, naturally supports her precious children.
The gods on the Greeks' side were gods' opponents, the gods on the Trojan side were pig teammates, and the only reliable Apollo was helpless but a weak-minded one, and after the failure of his pursuit of Kassandra and the death of Hector, Apollo, who had no concern, patted his ass and walked away in a dashing manner against Poseidon.
It can be seen that the immortality of Troy is really unreasonable.
Zeus, the only king of the gods who can make the final decision, sits high in the heavens, holds the seesaw steadily, helps this side at once, helps that side at once, makes the casualties of this war bigger and bigger, and involves all the descendants of the gods who have emerged into this flesh and blood mill to harvest to their heart's content, and finally after the destruction of Troy, the Greek alliance that signaled Athena and Poseidon to return victoriously was also destroyed, and only a few heroes who were hard and interesting enough or harmless in the background were able to return home.
Therefore, how could Ye Ye, who had seen various epic stories in reality and was very clear about the future developments, take the initiative to join this carnival feast of the gods, as an outsider, he didn't take advantage of the great opportunity of the gods of Mount Olympus to focus their attention on Troy to act in Greece itself, but traveled a long way to put himself in the spotlight of the gods, could it be that his brain was in water?
The Cretan prince didn't know so many secrets, he was as confident in this war as other Greeks, and thought that the Greek army would be able to level Troy as soon as it arrived, so he was deeply impressed by Ye Ye's blind words, and when he thought about it, he felt that this foreigner was not only a good man with good martial arts, but also knowledgeable and interesting, and couldn't help but think of recruiting Ye Ye, and asked out loud: "Ye, you have come all the way to Greece, what are your plans in the future." ”
"Venerable Prince of Crete, I intend to spend some time on this enchanting island, then visit the holy places of the gods all over Greece, and finally go to Mount Olympus to admire the glory of the gods." Ye Ye looked pious, and seemed to have been at the foot of Mount Olympus and saw the glorious divine figures of the gods from afar.
The prince of Crete choked suddenly, he couldn't say that you don't want to look at any bullshit gods, stay here and be my subordinate, so he could only wave his hand happily: "Then, I wish you a smooth journey, and the gods will bless you." ”
After a few perfunctory words, the Cretan prince motioned to the guards to take Ye Ye out, after all, he was also very busy in governing a country, if he could accept Ye Ye to the point where he didn't mind squeezing out some time to exchange feelings, but a guy who was about to leave the island should not waste his precious time.
Walking out of the palace, Ye Ye's expression was uneasy, and he sighed secretly, although he had gained something this time, the result was not satisfactory. Before, he deliberately challenged the prince of Crete, just to probe the divinity in his body at close range during the fight, as a descendant of Parsiphae, it stands to reason that there is a certain possibility that there is also a sun divinity in his body, if Ye Ye can be sure of this, he doesn't mind taking advantage of the fact that the island is empty now to do something to kill the king.
But it's a pity that the prince of Crete is already a god descendant several generations later, and the bloodline concentration is much lighter than in the first generation, although Ye Ye sensed the existence of divinity in his body during the fight, he was not strong. Among them, the most obvious is the divinity that is like a brilliant and brilliant thunder that overwhelms everything, from the divinity of Zeus, the king of the gods, and under this power, there is another tenacious wave power that resonates with the ocean divinity in Ye Ye's body, obviously inherited from Poseidon's bloodline. In addition, Ye Ye did not perceive the slightest shadow of the sun divinity in his body, and it seemed that it was either so weak that it had been extinguished or was swallowed up by these two divinities.
"It seems that we still have to go to the Minoan Labyrinth after all, but fortunately, this time I have at least explored the location of the entrance."
Ye Ye glanced back at the majestic palace again, turned around and left, disappearing from the sight of the guards.