Reversing Greek Mythology

Luo Yin suddenly opened his eyes and found that he was lying on a stone throne and dozing off.

"Am I not fighting the Egyptian gods?"

Recalling the scene when he fought against the Egyptian gods in the sky above Memphis, Luo Yin could not remember whether the outcome of this battle was his victory or the victory of the Egyptian gods.

At this moment, a figure hurried up to Luo Yin, interrupting Luo Yin's thinking.

"King Pentheus! The old blind seer Teiresias asks for an audience."

Luo Yin came back to his senses, looked at the young man with a calm face and said.

"Let him in!"

After the young man who looked like he was serving as the king's envoy as a nobleman left, Luo Yin looked at the throne room where he was.

"My current identity is Pentheus, King of Thebes? This stone hall is not only small in space, but also has no decorations. It is completely different from the hall when I was the King of Thebes."

As a king with rich experience, Luo Yin certainly knew that it didn't matter whether the palace was big or small, magnificent or shabby. What mattered was the power the king held in his hands.

After retracting his gaze from looking at the hall, Luo Yin thought about his current identity.

Pentheus——

This was the name of the second king of Thebes.

He is not only the grandson of Cadmus, the founder of the city of Thebes, but also the son of Echion, one of the five senatorial nobles who jointly founded the city of Thebes with Cadmus.

Although in real history, Pentheus should have relied on his strong family strength to seize the throne belonging to Cadmus' son after Cadmus' death.

But in the setting of the myth, Pentheus ascended the throne while Cadmus was still alive.

Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, did not pass the throne to his son, but to his grandson.

Young Pentheus became the king of Thebes. At this time, Dionysus, the god of wine, also came to the city of Thebes as the grandson of Cadmus and wanted to become the patron saint of Thebes.

Pentheus bravely told the fact that Dionysus was not the son of Zeus, and regarded those Dionysian believers who were greedy for wine as cowards, and refused Dionysus to take over the city of Thebes.

Pentheus's behavior certainly blasphemed Dionysus, so Dionysus had him punished by being torn into pieces by his mother Agoe and his sisters.

Queen Niobe, the wife of King Amphion of Thebes, forbade the women of Thebes from sacrificing sacrifices to Apollo, Leto, and Artemis. As a result, the whole family was punished by the gods.

The story of Niobe in mythology is obviously a reflection of the real history hundreds of years later. Apollo's worshipers forced Apollo to take over the Thebes area and killed the locals who dared to resist.

The story of Pentheus, king of Thebes, is obviously a replica of the story of Niobe.

The story of Pentheus in the myth also mirrors the real history hundreds of years later. Dionysus' admirers allowed Dionysus to take over the Thebes area. The prototype of Pentheus was to prevent Dionysus from conquering Thebes. Native of Nyssos.

"It has to be said that although the myth is false, the things reflected in the myth are all real. In the myth of Pentheus, the person who made up the myth asked Pentheus to say that Dionysus was not the son of Zeus, saying Dionysus believers are cowards and lunatics who do not go to the battlefield. They say that Dionysus is not the god of battle and cannot protect the city-these are all facts. The charm of Greek mythology is that these mythological stories have realistic prototypes, and the mythmakers know how to do it. Using myths to satirize things they can’t say directly.”

As soon as Luo Yin finished his soliloquy, the young envoy just now walked into the hall with an old man.

The identity of this old man is the blind prophet Teiresias.

A magical figure who existed in the timeline of Greek mythology for around two hundred years.

His daughter Mantle existed for about four hundred years in the timeline of Greek mythology. It can be said that she is better than her predecessor.

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"Young King Pentheus!"

Tiresias came to Luo Yin and spoke seriously.

"Your cousin, Dionysus, the great son of Zeus, is coming to the city of Thebes. Although he is the child of Zeus, the king of gods, and Semele, the human princess, he is a natural god. Now the great god Dionysus has come to his hometown of Thebes. You should praise him and follow him and become one of his followers. If you choose to fight against this god, the punishment of the god will definitely make you regret it. ”

After listening to Teiresias' words, Luo Yin sneered and said.

"You don't need to say much about how I treat Dionysus. Now let's talk about your problem! Although everyone is a mythical figure, Pentheus, the king of Thebes, should have a real prototype, but you follow your Like his daughter Manto, she is a completely fictitious character! The city of Thebes has the most accurate prophecy provided by the goddess Mnemosyne. The existence of a prophet like you is not only disgusting with Mnemosyne. The goddess Mosyne is replacing the goddess Mnemosyne, making people forget the existence of the goddess of prophecy. The only thing I want to know is, were you created by followers of Zeus or followers of Apollo? My guess is that you were created by followers of Zeus, and then followers of Apollo used you to hide the existence of the goddess Mnemosyne. Even if my guess is wrong, it doesn't matter, because no matter you are created by followers of Zeus. Creation, or creation by a follower of Apollo, would not change the decision I made."

Having said this, Luo Yin ordered the palace guard at the entrance of the hall.

"Drag out the blind prophet and chop off his head."

If Tiresias was a real person, even if Luo Yin issued the king's order, the palace guards would hesitate to kill a great prophet.

But Teiresias is a fictional character, and his role is to hide the existence of the goddess Mnemosyne, or to promote the plot of certain mythological stories.

After hearing Luo Yin's order, the two palace guards carried out the order without hesitation and dragged Teiresias out.

After a while.

The two palace guards ran into the hall in a panic and said.

"King Pentheus! We have faithfully carried out your orders, but after we chopped off Teiresias's head, his body suddenly disappeared, as if he had never existed from the beginning. Please believe us , We definitely didn’t let Teiresias go.”

"I believe you!"

Luo Yin nodded and said.

"Even if you want to let Teiresias go, he cannot leave the palace alone as a blind man."

After the two palace guards returned to their posts, Luo Yin's young envoy ran into the hall in a panic and said.

"King Pentheus! He has arrived. The god who claims to be your cousin has arrived outside the city of Thebes. Now many men, women and children in the city of Thebes are running outside the city to meet him. Praise the new god."

"Since Dionysus is already here, let him come to the palace!"

Luo Yin said with a joking smile.

"If he wants to become the patron saint of Thebes, he needs the support of me, the king. If he doesn't come to the palace to see me, do he want me to greet him, a foreigner?"