Augustus Road

Carabis stood cautiously at a street corner in Tegresetta, watching several soldiers on the opposite side, holding jars and pots, rushing out of a house. Coincidentally, Hebrida and Safano were among them. He quickly exchanged glances with the centurion, and Hebrida also looked at him expressionlessly, and then led the soldiers to look for the next target.

"Carabis, have those dirty soldiers in front left?" Behind him, Adiana, wearing a light green robe, lazily resting her cheek on her hand, sat on the stopped sedan chair, and several coolies stood beside her with their hands folded - Luculas cashed in the legion's spoils and gave her and Nessa a full 10,000 drachmas each, which was used as makeup expenses.

After seeing Hebrida run away, Carapis turned back and nodded to everyone, indicating that it was open. Although the Romans took over the city, the city's security was not peaceful enough. The soldiers were robbing everywhere, just like Hebrida, but after all, they did not kill people at will, which was thankful, so they just had to be cautious and not get into trouble.

Finally, Carapis led the sedan chair through the huge and empty square, with pigeons flying everywhere, and stopped in front of a newly built gorgeous amphitheater. This was originally a building invested by Tegrenes, but now it belongs to the entire city, plus many musicians and actors who did not have time to escape. Today, Luculas generously donated money to invite the legion commanders and city dignitaries to watch the tragedy of Euripides, and Adiana was also invited.

"All of you step back." Adiana got off the sedan chair and ordered. When Carapis was about to wait here with the others, he heard the princess say, "Carapis, follow me and go in together."

Soon, Carapis, who was following the princess, felt the exquisiteness of Greek architecture. It was called an amphitheater, but it was actually a huge semicircle with corridors and stone pillars outside. The whole theater faced the open field and backed by natural hills and woods. It was nine o'clock in the morning. The breeze was blowing in the whole theater, and even the wind was adjusted to be very rhythmic. With the mild sunshine in early winter, every pore was filled with moisture and warmth when walking in it. It was extremely comfortable. It was worthy of being the most representative cultural building in ancient Greece.

"Carapis, I understand your surprise at civilization, but don't look around like a barbarian and expose your real name. Remember, your demeanor is closely related to me now, don't let me lose face in this city." Adiana frowned and complained unhappily when she saw Carapis looking around with his mouth open.

The entire amphitheater can accommodate 5,000 people to watch performances and operas. Each audience seat is precisely divided by the entrance, which is not much different from the current large stadium. At the entrance where Adiana walked in, stood Demetrius, who was responsible for welcoming the host. Although he was "abandoned" by the previous owner, Demetrius still smiled happily when he saw Adiana, representing the current owner Luculas's warmest welcome to the princess.

Adiana walked through the entrance with a blank expression, which made Demetrius a little embarrassed. Carapis shook hands and fists with Demetrius quickly and gently behind him, and smiled at each other in an encouraging way. ,

Secretly, Demetrius gave Carapis a few pills, which should have a healing effect on his right hand injury.

"Isn't this my dear niece? It is said that the performance today is "Medea", I think it must be particularly suitable for your taste." Over there, accompanied by Boti, Nessa, wearing heavy makeup, twisting her soft waist, and walking provocatively.

Carapis and Boti exchanged glances and lowered their heads. They didn't want to annoy this narrow-minded Adiana again.

"I think that your dress today is really ill-considered when watching this great tragedy. Look at this dress that will make all the heroes crazy. Maybe it is more appropriate for you to be in the bed in the bedroom now." Adiana's words were like knives and swords, making Nessa, who came here with high spirits, return in defeat.

Then the two most noble women of Pontus, one sat on the left and the other sat on the right in the third row of the golden stands. Carapis looked at them and saw that the ten seats in the middle (a row of twelve seats in the Greek theater) were empty, as if they had never seen each other again.

Next, Lucullus came with Roman generals in casual robes, and a group of citizens and nobles also came. After a few groups of people exchanged greetings for a while, they sat in the seats on the other side.

Finally, with a very restrained applause, the chorus of Tegreseta came on stage first. The performance area of ​​the amphitheater was at the "center of the circle", but it was also divided into two parts: the "singing platform" for the chorus performance and the "stage" for the actors' performance. The latter was a raised piece.

When the choir started singing, Carapis was stunned and excited. This heavenly sound from 2,000 years ago touched his heart. The chants of these singers were completely without lyrics. They were pure natural sounds without any additions. From the first note to the octave, sometimes light and sometimes powerful. What was even more wonderful was that Carapis could fully feel the singing like ripples on the water, along standard concentric circles, spreading to every corner of the theater seats.

Because in the recess under each seat, the engineers who built the theater placed a small bronze urn, which could respond to different tones to make the sound perfect.

This kind of extreme that modern people can't enjoy at all made Carapis cover his mouth and almost shed tears, but he was afraid that Adiana would be very dissatisfied with him, so he suppressed his emotions.

After the chorus curtain call, the performance of "Medea" followed. The actors all wore masks and high heels, performed various stage movements, and performed the shocking tragedy with all their strength. Over there, Tyranion kept testing Luculas' attitude towards Greek art while watching the Greek opera. It was embarrassing that Carapis was very excited, and although Luculas was proficient in Greek, he was obviously very lacking in opera and even a little sleepy.

As for the warriors such as Psychedelius and Murilla, they were even more restless and uninterested.

"Excuse me, your love for opera is not as strong as our Greeks."

Luculus smiled apologetically and replied to Tyranion: "That's because the growth process of the Romans is different from yours."

Tyranion immediately became interested. He asked the scroll slave standing beside him to start recording and asked Luculus why he said that.

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