Chapter 729
The brothers eventually overthrew the tyranny of the usurper.
After that, the two brothers prepared to build a new city on which to build a new kingdom.
The two brothers each had their own desired address for building the city. After some disputes, they finally adopted the choice of their elder brother Romulus.
So Romulus put his gun in the Palatine, where Rome was founded.
After that, Rome has been passed down for several generations. With the support of the gods, Rome expanded rapidly and almost unified most of the northern coast of the Mediterranean.
Also because the founder of Rome, Romulus, was the son of Ares, the mortals of Rome gradually re-established their faith in the gods.
This time, it is indeed the victory of the gods of Olympus - through the establishment of Rome, they not only regained their influence on mortals in one fell swoop, but also made Ares more powerful, killing two birds with one stone.
It is a pity that until this time, Zeus and other gods did not understand that the real purpose of their enemies was not to seize power and establish a new god system, and they did not really understand how human society changed.
At the same time, those who inherited the legacy of the Argonauts, led by Greece and Macedonia, had to deal with the repeated invasions of the emerging Persian Empire due to geographical reasons.
Although there is a division of the gods among the major gods in order to avoid the battle of the gods, the competition between the gods will not be cut off. When the gods are in a tacit understanding and do not fight each other, the war between mortals is the means of struggle between the gods.
The Hippo War, which represented the dispute between the Olympian and Zoroastrian pantheons.
However, unlike the Zoroastrian pantheon, which fully supported the unified Persian Empire, the gods behind these city-states headed by Athens were not the entire Olympian pantheon, but one of the Olympian gods. of a faction.
As the patron saint of Athens, the goddess Athena naturally bears the brunt, and other gods such as Apollo, Artemis, Hestia will also provide help, but Zeus and Hera are only watching the battle and taking the opportunity develop Rome.
That's exactly what they're trying to do.
For these city-states, it is quite difficult to deal with the invasion of Persia alone, and this is also true at the level of gods. Although Athena can rival the god-king Zeus, there are also helpers such as Hestia, Apollo, and Artemis. , but it is still difficult to deal with the entire pantheon of the enemy.
After all, this is not a head-to-head battle between the gods. The two sides are not competing for combat power, but for divine power and the help and blessings for the mortals under their command.
At this point, although the gods of the Athena family were all powerful in combat, they were unable to exert their own advantages.
Fortunately, Hecate and Aphrodite also stood up, and at the same time, the power of the mage also joined the Greek coalition, which prevented the situation from becoming one-sided.
In the first Persian invasion, the two sides fought at Marathon. With the help of magic, the Greeks defeated the Persians led by Darius I with less victory.
Soon, the Persians began to invade for the second time, but this time, the Spartans stood up - the guardian of the Flame Gate, the King of Sparta, Leonidas, led three hundred warriors to defend the Hot Spring Pass and gave When the rest of the city-states were strong and clear, the Greek coalition defeated the army led by Xerxes I, who took over, in one fell swoop in the Battle of the Gulf of Salami.
A year later, the Persians invaded for the third time, and the result was once again defeated by Plataea. In addition, the internal contradictions of the empire forced them to retreat to the defensive.
Greece, led by Athens, gradually turned to the offensive, and took the opportunity to expand its maritime power and establish Athens' hegemony in the Aegean Sea.
However, while the Greek countries have no time to look westward, the Roman Republic has become the general trend, and its fangs have turned to the east.
Chapter 0900 Xia, Shang, Zhou
The suppression of the Athena faction by Zeus and other Olympian gods is not only a card of Rome.
In Greece, if the reign of Athens represents the greatest influence of Athena on mortals, then the existence of Macedonia means that the inherent power of Zeus in Greece has not been completely eliminated.
On the one hand, the gods of Olympus continued to help the Romans of the Apennine continue to grow, on the other hand, they helped the Greek Macedonia to continue to rise, becoming a city-state second only to Athens.
Their ultimate goal is to use the power of Macedonia and Rome to attack both sides, defeat the Greek city-states in one fell swoop, and use this method to re-establish the rule of the gods of Olympus, so as to make Athena's efforts go to waste.
Unfortunately, their fundamental judgment about their opponents was wrong.
As a god who favors human beings, Athena holds the view that the gods should not always rule over human beings, human beings have long been able to survive independently on the earth, the tasks of the gods have long been over, it is time to let go, rely on On the earth, it is not what qualified gods should do to maintain their own existence with the belief of human beings.
In her opinion, in the face of the coming end of the Age of Gods, the gods should give up their positions and go to the outside of the world, or somewhere else, instead of begging for bailai to continue to do good on the earth.
The pattern of the two sides is fundamentally different, and the natural strategic direction is completely different.
Compared with Zeus's constant strengthening of human beliefs, after Athena became the mainstream belief in Greece, she did not blindly expand her followers, but consciously reduced the spread of beliefs, hoping to let human beings on the road of independence.
Even after the rise of Rome and Macedonia, she pushed magicians to join these nations.
On the surface, this is an act of capitalizing on the enemy. In fact, in the eyes of Athena, as long as the power that belongs to "human beings" can be increased.
She can do whatever she wants, and even the Romans and Macedonians are her beloved human beings.
Comparing the two, the pattern is completely different.
Compared with Zeus, Athena, who was obviously willing to put down her body, knew more about human beings. She deeply knew that human beings are to gods as children are to their parents. The older and more capable, the child will always become independent and impatient with parental finger-pointing—especially after the child has the ability to live independently.
Therefore, for her, whether it is the growth of Rome or the rise of Macedonia, it is the process of children becoming strong and independent, and both represent a step closer to the separation of human beings and the gods.
Even if Rome or Macedonia defeated Greece, unified the various city-states, and established a great empire that believed in the Olympian gods like Egypt did, what would that mean?
Although Athena did not know what the divine authority of the monarchy existed in human history, what the contradiction and confrontation between divine authority and kingship, she was wise like her, and she had already seen the final outcome of Zeus's set.
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Time continued to flow, and Ye Ting had skipped time more than a few times.
Not to mention how Philip II of Macedonia led Macedonia to defeat the allied forces of Athens and became the overlord of Greece, and how Zeus gave birth to the legendary king through the belly of his wife Olympias. At the Academy of Mystra, After more than 100 years of hard work, Hecate, the goddess of the magic net, has finally substantially controlled the magic net of the entire world, and now she can truly be called the magic net goddess.
And Ye Ting's plan is almost entering the final stage.
So, he turned his eyes to the east.
His goal is to end the Age of Gods, free mankind from the control of the gods, and bring about the birth of Alaya.
Although with the help of Jehovah's hand, Ye Ting has succeeded in getting all the second- and third-rate gods in the world, but that's all that Jehovah can do.
If you want to defeat those really powerful gods, you still need to rely on Ye Ting to do it himself.
Of course, he wouldn't just go to the big gods one by one in such a stupid way to kick the game.
For the final phase of his plan to unfold, he needed an entry point.
And this entry point is in that eastern country.
The eastern kingdom of this era has long since gotten rid of the troubles of the old rulers.
However, it was precisely because of the resistance to the old rulers that the gods of the East gave human beings too much help, so after the end of the Xia Dynasty, they entered the Shang Dynasty, where immortals and gods jointly ruled the world.
In the Shang Dynasty, with the departure of the common enemy of man and god, the contradiction between man and god became more and more prominent, and the gods and immortals also fought with each other because of factional issues.
The Shang Dynasty was the peak period of the power of immortals and gods in this country, and it was also the peak period of this kind of struggle. Due to some power and technology left by the old rulers, the people of the Shang Dynasty developed the characteristic immortal technology, among which there are many Human body refining technology, etc., in short, is an amazing technology. This technology enables those gods and immortals who stand on the side of "people" to finally have the same power as the gods and immortals who represent "gods".
Thus, the war between the two sides began.
It was a tragic battle known as the "Battle of Conferred Gods". The war completely brought down the prosperous Shang Dynasty, and both sides of the war suffered heavy losses. No one could be considered a victor, but almost destroyed the entire country.
In fact, neither side of the war is malicious - the side representing "people" is fighting for the free will of human beings, while the side representing gods believes that only the guidance of gods can prevent the inferiority of human beings from destroying human beings.
However, the outcome of the war is really cruel, even if the immortals and gods who can even destroy the world suppress their means, they still cause terrible consequences.
Out of shame, the disheartened gods completely gave up their rule over human beings and left willingly. Those immortals who did not exist one after another also hid in the mountains and forests, and they rarely appeared among mortals.
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