Chapter 39: The God-like Hercules

"Eurystheus!"

Hercules roared with rage, like an angry lion, and his anger turned into flames as if to burn all of Greece.

In the light and shadow, it was the three-headed dog of the underworld descending on his Athenian mansion, and the three-headed dog was led by the Athenian king Eurystheus.

Everything is already clear, the Athenian king Eurystheus was jealous of himself, so when he returned to his home in Athens after his success, he led a vicious dog to attack his family, and at the same time blamed himself for the murder of his wife and children, and finally expelled himself from Athens.

Only the charge of killing his wife and children could get the Athenian citizens' assembly to agree to their expulsion.

He could not forgive the Athenian king Eurystheus, and he wanted to take revenge on the Athenian king, at which time Hercules' heart was already dominated by hatred, and anger overwhelmed reason.

Hercules' nephew, Iolaus, looked at his uncle in an angry state, and wanted to step forward to dissuade him, but William pulled him away.

Sing, goddess, and sing the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus!

His fury led to a catastrophe that cost the Greeks so much that countless heroic souls were sent to the underworld, leaving their bodies to rot and become food for wild beasts.

In a trance, Iolaus resounded in his head a poem written by the bard Homer, which described that in order to fight for Helen, the queen of Sparta, the kings and princes of all Greece united to form a Greek alliance to attack the Trojan kingdom, and the story was centered on the wrath of Achilles.

Iolaus looked at his uncle in an angry state, that angry state, as if he was about to choose someone to devour, the appearance of rage, lost his human reason, like a real beast.

Hercules' fist struck the pillars of the royal palace, and the entire Thracian palace was crumbling because of this earth-shattering blow, and the mercenaries, representatives of the army, and the citizens who had been eating in the palace all looked at Hercules with a dumbfounded look.

"Is this guy really human?"

Everyone couldn't help but wonder why Hercules, who was about to ascend the throne of the king, not only did not look a little happy, but also called the name of the king of Athens at this time, and his crazy appearance was simply terrifying.

Princess Eginia held her child Alius, stroked his hair, and soothed her child's emotions, her father and his general had been imprisoned at this time, whether he lived or died depends on whether Hercules pays attention to it or not, thinking of the legend that when he was at the peak of his power in Athens, he actually killed his wife and children in a rage, and was expelled from Athens by the king of Athens, which made him uneasy.

Any reasonable person who wants to ascend the throne of the king reasonably and legitimately must treat himself preferentially, the former queen, the former princess, a dynasty change in Greece must be mild, at least on the surface, the new monarch must marry the queen or princess of the previous king, this is a Greek tradition since ancient times, but in the face of a beast dominated by anger, a beast that has lost its mind, no one can predict.

In Greece, the wrath of a lord was not only the emotion of a person, but also the wrath of a nation.

For the king of Sparta, this is a man violating the property and dignity of another man, as a victim, only to vent this anger and take revenge on the Trojan prince Paris and Troy, otherwise the king of Sparta will lose his dignity forever.

"Hera!"

"Hera!"

"Hera!"

Hercules rushed out of the banquet hall of the palace and galloped towards the palace square, and in the eyes of everyone, Hercules had disappeared without a trace of a gust of wind.

When Ottoricus had finished speaking, everyone woke up and ran in the direction of the palace square, where they saw Hercules standing at the foot of the statue of Hera.

Hercules stood under the statue of Hera, and the statue of forty or fifty meters high, Hercules was only one meter and ninety-five tall, no matter how small he looked, Hercules bit his lip, his eyes were red and looked up at Hera, he looked aggrieved, there was a sense of powerlessness, but he still stood under the statue with his mace and refused to admit defeat, but there was a sense of sublimity.

"Hera, Queen of Heaven, if you have any grievances against me, come to me, why do you want to rush at my wife and children."

Hercules roared loudly, his roar alarming the entire Thracian army, and at the same time the countless fleeing civilians were also awakened by Hercules' roar, and they looked at the issue with trepidation, staring at the burly man.

Everyone knows that in order to quell the rebellion of Thrace, the former king Cortis sent his daughter Princess Eginia to Macedonia to invite the legendary son of Zeus, Hercules, but as soon as he arrived in Thrace, the idol of Hera disappeared, and everyone was terrified, thinking that Hera abandoned Thrace in order to punish the usurping king Kotis, and finally under the concatenation of people with intentions, the soldiers carried out a coup d'état and invited Hercules to the throne of the king.

The commoners watched all this indifferently, as if to them there was no difference in their lives, no matter which king they were replaced.

The most important office in a country is the king or consul, and the highest authority is the citizens' assembly, and the number of citizens in the whole country is always a minority.

Among the city-states, there are three classes: citizens, freemen, and slaves, and Aristotle famously said, "Man is an animal of the city-state."

The people here are mainly citizens of the Greek city-states. Citizens were the dominant stratum of Greek society and the core force of city-state politics.

The polis is a group of citizens, and citizens only have meaning if they live in a group of citizens, that is, the polis, and without the polis, citizens do not become citizens. Gentiles had no political rights and could not participate in the political life of the city-state.

Sparta had a population of 250,000 and only 9,000 citizens, so the citizens were the backbone of the army, and slaves should not be counted on to protect the city-state, let alone the freedmen, because the freedmen were foreigners, so they had neither power nor responsibility in other city-states.

Everyone looked at the angry Hercules, not knowing what to do, and not knowing how to appease him, everyone knew that the legend said that Hera wanted to destroy Hercules all the time, so it brought him a cruel fate, in which Hercules killed his wife and son because of blood rage, and in everyone's opinion, this is the fate that Hera gave Hercules.

Everything is the will of God, the arrangement of fate, and because of this, the king of Athens did not execute Hercules, who killed his wife and children, but expelled and exiled him.

"Hera!"

Hercules called Hera's name, not worship and awe, but challenge and protest, and then went directly to the foot of the idol and hugged Hera's idol directly, as if trying to bring it down.

Crazy, crazy, Hercules is simply crazy, doesn't he know that the reason why Hercules was able to become king is because Hera's idol appeared.

"Stop him!" Princess Eginia said, then calmed down and smiled self-deprecatingly, how could a human challenge a god, how could a mortal lift the statue of Hera close to fifty meters to the top.

However, while everyone was thinking this, the idol had been lifted high by Hercules, and the light from the ox charm was flashing on Hercules' back.

"......" Everyone was silent and dumbfounded, and then they saw someone kneeling down, and then everyone knelt down one after another.

In the words of a Homer's praise, this is really the god-like Hercules.