Chapter 205 The Dionysian Royal Family at the Opening Ceremony

After Lycomedes sat down, he sighed and said, "It's really different! The games held in our native Greece, on the first day, gathered athletes and spectators in front of the temple, and the priests gathered together. We sacrificed to the gods together, and then the athletes stood in front of the altar, under the guidance of the priest, swearing in the name of the god... But now we are sitting in the arena, waiting for the start of the games!"

"Yeah, this is where I am puzzled." Peropidas asked curiously: "Lycomedes, do you know what the Dionians will do next?"

"I just met Tecias, the chief general of Messenia, on the way here, and I asked him the same question. He didn't know, so how could I know." Lucomedes said with a smile: "I don't know. Exactly, so whatever Dionia does next will be a surprise!"

As soon as his words fell, the entire arena suddenly boiled, cheering and shouting.

The two people who were talking still didn't know what was going on. Ipamironda, who had been silently observing the surroundings, said loudly in their ears: "King Davos is here!"

The special stand for the royal family is not far from their right side. It is a marble platform 20 meters long and 5 meters high. It is built with a gold-inlaid iron fence, with blue and white curtains on the top, surrounded by majestic palace guards. guard.

At this moment, Davos took Cristoia, Agnes, the two princesses, and all the children to the stand.

The sharp-eyed people of Dionysus noticed the situation immediately, and cheered to their beloved king and queen.

Wearing a gold crown and black gold-encrusted ornate Bolton, Davers smiled, raised his right hand and waved it gently to salute the audience.

The cheers in the arena grew even louder.

Suddenly, the audience on the opposite side of the royal stand stood up, raised their arms above their heads, and sat down again, followed by the audience on their right doing the same...

"Human wave! Human wave! I want to play too!" Krotokatax's second son, 6-year-old Crimides, ran forward excitedly, and was quickly pulled by Cristoia, softly speaking Said: "Kerry, don't worry, let's play together in a while."

Sure enough, when the waves reached the royal stand, Davers and his family raised their hands, stood up from the soft couch, and sat down again.

Despite the in-person participation of the royal family, the crowds became intermittent due to the large audience of non-Dionysians. The Dionysian audience continued patiently, the second round, the third round... Finally, all the audience were driven up, and the stands of the entire arena rose one after another, like a rolling wave, which was truly spectacular.

When the crowd was over, Peropidas was still not satisfied, and said repeatedly: "Not bad! This surprise is very good!!"

When the VIPs were in the auditorium discussing the crowd just now, Davos was already sitting on the couch, smiling and saying to Cristoia: "Judging from the crowd just now, at least there are Two-fifths of the audience are not Dionians, and it seems that the Turii City Hall is serious about implementing the palace's decision."

Kristoya rolled his eyes at him: "It's not just the City Hall, our Chamber of Commerce has also contributed a lot!"

"Don't worry, I haven't finished speaking yet, I have to give you a compliment." Davers salivated his face and touched Cristoia's hand, but she patted her hard and warned: "This is a public On occasion, don't mess around, it's not good for the people to see it!"

Davers said righteously: "What's wrong with this, to show the people our love is to remind them to respect their marriage and love their wives! Agnes, are you right?!" He also took the opportunity to hold Agnes' hand.

Agnes smiled slightly, but struggled back with her hands, but she didn't break free, so she had to let her husband touch her.

Eunice, who was sitting in the back, grimaced and whispered to her siblings, "Father is so cheeky."

"Eunice,

what are you talking about! "Davers didn't look back, but shouted as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

"Ah...it's nothing, I was telling my sister-in-law that the wave of people just now was fun." Eunice quickly blinked at Dido next to her: "Really, sister-in-law?"

Dido refrained from laughing: "Yes."

"Talking nonsense with your eyes open, your daughter is just like you!" Cristoia scolded with a smile.

Davers coughed a few times: "My daughter is not like who else I can be like! Eunice, I give you a task, go and tell the front that the opening ceremony can start, don't make the audience wait for a long time."

"In such an occasion, it should be the elder brother's notification." Eunice said hesitantly.

However, Clotokatax understood Davos' intention and said with a smile: "Eunice, you are the most popular royal family member in this arena, and you won't go to anyone. Besides, your appearance will give those Great encouragement from non-Dionysian women sitting in the stadium for the first time."

After hearing this, Eunice stood up and said mischievously, "Father, then I'll go. Don't be jealous that I am more popular than you!"

"No big or small, hurry up and hurry up!" Davos looked impatient, but he couldn't help joking: "Alex, what's the matter with you, you didn't take care of your wife? !"

Alex hasn't responded yet, Eunice's apricot eyes widened: "He dares?!"

Ivia finally couldn't help laughing out loud.

Eunice gracefully walked out of the drapery and walked to the front of the royal stand, where there were even more enthusiastic cheers.

It's no lie that Eunice is more popular with the audience than King Davos in the Hades main arena. Because Eunice, who loves sports among the royal family members, will go to this arena to watch rugby and football games whenever she is free, cheering the players with the audience, and the Cristoia Chamber of Commerce once led the way in her name Donated for the renovation of the Hades Main Arena, and on several occasions presented awards to the championship-winning football and soccer teams in place of the overworked Davos and Cloto Katax, so many spectators And the players call her "the goddess of the arena".

Among the enthusiastic cheering audience, there were indeed a very small number of women from the native Greek city-state. More than half of them were wives of ordinary civilians. Because of their family circumstances, they had to show their faces in the market to buy and sell goods or cultivate farmland. The status and power are much greater than that of women in noble families, but even so they can't go to the stadiums of various games to watch exciting games, and the Dionysian Games gave them this opportunity, so they came tremblingly, And Princess Dionia, standing so strikingly in the royal stands, undoubtedly gave them the greatest encouragement.

There were also a very small number of Greek girls in the audience. They were brought to watch the game by their father as a businessman. In the auditorium, she was still very reserved. She lowered her head and didn't dare to look around. As a result, she saw the nearby Dionysian women shouting and screaming freely, and gradually let go.

Next to the royal stand is a smaller platform, on which sits five hosts of the arena. After receiving the order of Eunice, the leader immediately raised a red flag and kept shaking in the air. , After the Dionysian audience saw it, not only did they stop the noise, but also persuaded the audience next to them to keep quiet.

After the whole arena was quieter, the five hosts picked up the microphones wrapped in copper skin, and with the loud voices and tacit understanding they had cultivated in hosting the game for many years, they said in unison: "Everyone, welcome to Kazakhstan. Diss Main Arena! By the order of the great King Davos, we declare—the Dionian Games are officially on!”

"First of all, let the band enter!"

As the host's voice sounded, the door leading to the entrance of the arena opened, and nearly a hundred musicians holding various musical instruments lined up in neat columns, entered the arena, and marched along the edge of the track, playing "March March" as they marched. ".

Their entrance was immediately greeted with warm applause from the audience, and the citizens of Dionia among them also clapped and hummed to the familiar melody, and the whole stadium became lively again.

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Just as the band entered, there were also two distinguished guests in the King's Stand: Plato and Xenophon.

Since the surrender of Athens and the end of the Greek War, Plato rejected Davos's retention, returned to Athens, and continued to manage his Akademi Academy. To ask about the kingdom of Dionia, he also occasionally wrote to Davos to exchange political issues, and kept in touch with Davos all the time.

After the conquest of Sparta, Davos wrote several times to invite Xenophon to teach at the Dionysian Academy of Letters, but he refused all of them on the grounds that he was "writing with all his strength and didn't want to be disturbed". Lived in seclusion in the Peloponnese.

But this time Davos invited them in the name of the Games, but they were glad to come. The reason was very simple: the two were not only fans of sports competition, but also participants. Plato was a good wrestler when he was young, Xeno Finn was good at running when he was young. After he settled in the Peloponnese, because of the close proximity to Olympia, the Olympia Games did not fail, and he also participated in horse racing. In fact, Greece in this era advocates strength and beauty, so Greek celebrities like sports competition, otherwise, even if they are knowledgeable, but if they are weak, they will be despised by the public.