By the bright moonlight, Ran Min stopped outside the square pavilion, looking forward to it, only to see two white women with blond hair and blue eyes and beautiful faces playing the harp there.

The melodious and graceful music of the harp, with beautiful notes pouring out from the strings, makes people intoxicated and difficult to extricate themselves.

The harp is a Western musical instrument shaped like a bow.

"What a beautiful woman...... "Ran Min muttered to herself, she had entered a state of lost soul, as if she was enchanted.

The woman on the left has long hair as thick as seaweed, slightly curled, eyes like seawater, very white skin, ivory color, and the whole person looks lazy and faint.

She was smiling, but her eyes were indifferent.

She has a white face, pale eyebrows, a beautiful nose, pale red lips, and her quiet eyes are as deep as the ocean.

Dressed in a Greek pale blue chiffon dress with a pearl necklace around her neck, her hair was long and beautifully curled around her waist like seaweed. She didn't embellish too much, nor did she apply a lot of fat powder like other dancing girls, but her simple outfit made her skin like congealed fat and her eyes like morning stars.

The woman on the right is wearing a pure white off-the-shoulder dress, with a beautiful collarbone looming, and the fabric of the skirt is so white that it seems to be transparent and slightly reflective, like an angel's wings, but it is not exposed at all.

The hem of the skirt is from low to high, elegantly slightly puffed, revealing the woman's white and slender legs like jade, and the slowest diamonds at the corners of the skirt are like countless beautiful morning dew. The woman's long, seaweed-like hair was scattered over her shoulders.

She wore a forehead ornament on her forehead, and the fine white gold chain made her long curly hair look pure and beautiful, and a diamond hung from the center of her eyebrows, which was unusually beautiful and dazzling, and the light seemed to be alive, like the moon.

And the woman's eyes are as calm as the sea. She was as beautiful as a princess in an exotic legend, mysterious and pure, and she longed to hold all the good things in the world at her feet, just to make her smile faintly.

Seeing these two stunning beauties, Ran Min has read countless people, has a lot of experience in the way of men and women, and has experienced a lot of "winds and waves", but he has really never tasted such a stunning beauty!

"Are these two daughters from the palace? How come the widow has never seen it? ”

Liu Ba replied: "The king, the minister has lived in the palace for a long time, but he has never seen these two daughters. Things are a little strange, and please be cautious about the king. ”

However, Ran Min ignored Liu Ba's dissuasion, even if these two Western beauties were assassins, Ran Min was confident, with his own arrogant force, why was he afraid of a mere little assassin?

Ran Min immediately stepped forward and sat down in the square pavilion.

"Who are you? Which house does it belong to? How is it that the widow has never seen you in the palace? Ran Min asked with a smile.

Unexpectedly, these two exotic Western beauties can really understand Chinese, and they can also speak words that are not very clear, but they can be heard in Chinese.

"The slave Heloise (Judy) has seen the king." Seeing this, the second daughter hurriedly gathered the harp, got up and saluted Ran Min.

"Heloise? Judy? That's a nice name. Ran Min praised it.

The Heloise mantis in front of her said: "Back to the king, both the slaves and maids are from Shi Guifei's Chenghuan Palace. ”

Chenghuan Palace? Isn't that the palace where Shi Lan lives?

"It's ugly now, why don't you go back to your room and have a good rest, what are you doing here?" Ran Min was a little suspicious.

Heloise replied again: "My lord, the hometown of the slave and the maid is from Athens, Rome, thousands of miles away, far away from their hometown for many years, only the harp in their hands is the thing of their hometown, so they think of things and people, see things and feel homesick, thousands of worries, full of sorrow, for a while can not vent, and toss and turn, so I have to come out to play a piece of hometown music, in order to show my heart." ”

Rome? Athens?

Yes, Greece today was actually a province under Roman rule!

In 299 BC, Roman forces began to invade the Balkans. As the Hellenistic kingdoms fell, the Romans gradually became the masters of the Greek destiny.

In 30 BC, Rome destroyed the last Hellenistic state, the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt, and the history of ancient Greece came to an end, and Greece entered the period of Roman rule.

And more than forty years later, if nothing else, the Roman Emperor Theodosius died, and he divided the empire into two, the eastern part to the eldest son Arcadius and the western part to the younger son Honorius.

From then on, Greece came under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Roman Empire.

"Athens......" Ran Min showed a yearning look for a while, "Widows know Athens." Athens or the whole of Greece once had a long and brilliant history and culture as our China, you Greeks were brave, tenacious and independent, from the Greco-Persian War to the loss of independence, the Greek states fought a war against the Persian invasion for decades, and won the final victory. Athens played a major role in the Greco-Persian Wars! ”

"It's a pity that you Greeks were conquered by Macedonia and then Rome. In fact, the most popular thing about Athens is that Athens has many wise people, Athens has a perfect education system, and the Athenian city-state also attaches great importance to education. ”

Hearing Ran Min talk about his hometown, and with a look of admiration, the second daughter of Athens had a good impression of Ran Min for no reason: "Yes." Great King, in our Athens, the ancient consul Solon, made it clear in his legislation that fathers had the responsibility to give their children a proper education. ”

Otherwise, the child has the right not to support his father when he or she reaches adulthood. But unlike Sparta, we Athenians believe that it is up to the state to cultivate the qualities of reason, intelligence, and justice that citizens should possess in the discharge of their public duties. ”

"However, education controlled by the state cannot be relied solely on how to organize one's leisure time and to cultivate qualities such as courage and strength. As a result, private schools were prevalent in Athens, and the state was only responsible for the education of young people. ”

Ran Min smiled faintly and said: "These widows all know that your Athens was really a rich and culturally rich city-state. If the widow remembers correctly, the children of your Athenian citizens were also undergoing a medical examination after birth, except that the medical examination of the children of Athens was carried out by the father. ”

"Until the age of seven, children are raised at home by their parents. After the age of seven, girls continue to be educated at home by their mothers, learning skills such as weaving and sewing; The boys began to study in grammar schools and string schools. Grammar schools mainly teach reading, writing, arithmetic, etc., while string schools teach music, singing, recitation, etc. (in the ancient period, grammar and music education were often combined in string schools). ”

In fact, Ran Min also wanted to do these things in Athens, but this was impossible, because the huge Wei State did not have these conditions.

Athens can be called the cradle of ancient Western culture because there are not many citizens in Athens, and there are more slaves who are restricted in their personal freedom, so the citizens of Athens are actually like aristocrats, not nobles, but they all enjoy the power of the nobility.

Both of these types of schools are private and fee-based.

Children are accompanied by "servants" to and from school to prevent children from being exposed to the bad influence of the streets. Most of the servants were slaves with some knowledge.

The teachers of grammar schools and string schools were generally freedmen with political rights, but some were freed slaves.

When it comes to history, in fact, Heloise and Judy don't like this, because the glory of Greece or Athens is a thing of the past, and the current Greece is just a province under the jurisdiction of the Roman Empire, and the glory of the past is long gone!

"Does the king know about Athena?" Judy, who had been silent, suddenly asked.

"Oh, of course I do." Ran Min smiled and said, "Athena, also known as Pallas Athena, is the goddess of wisdom in your ancient Greek mythology and one of the twelve main gods of Olympus!" ”

"If you remember correctly, Athena should be the goddess of wisdom, war, and craftsmanship in your ancient Greek mythology."

"yes, that's it." Judy was interested, "At the same time, she is also the goddess of art and craftsmanship. Esoteric prayer songs call her the founding art. She taught skills such as textiles, gardening, pottery, animal husbandry, etc.; Painting, sculpture, music and other arts to mankind. ”

"She is also the goddess of military strategy. The protector of navigation, agriculture, and medicine. The Tribunal, the goddess of order, she founded the first court of mankind

"Athena, Hestia and Artemis are regarded as the three goddesses on Mount Olympus. The first people worshipped her as the realm of the first bloom, representing the virgin and the pure light! ”

Ran Min's eyes were blazing: "That's right." In addition, the widow also heard a small story. It is said that Athena was the daughter of Zeus and Metis, the goddess of wisdom, and that she was the half-sister of Boros. Gaia and Ouranos prophesied that after Metis gave birth to a bright-eyed daughter, he would have another son (Boros) who overthrew Zeus, and Zeus, fearing that the prophecy would come true, swallowed Metis whole. ”

After Zeus had a severe headache, and Apollo could not heal him, Zeus had to ask the god of fire Hephaestus to open his head (or Prometheus or Hermes), and the god of fire did so. To the surprise of the gods, a beautiful goddess with a graceful body and a strong and stubborn body jumped out of her split skull, radiant and beautiful! ”

"Oh!" Both Heloise and Judy had to look incredulous: "I can't believe it, I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable, have you ever been to our Greece?" How do you know so much about our Greek customs? You can even tell stories of ancient history and mythology! ”

"Haha, it's all trivial."

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Chapter 0355: Exotic