Chapter 359 A real wedding is necessary

Author: Sifang Qianjun

Chapter 359 A real wedding is necessary

Hippolyta has always wanted to marry Roy in order to use Roy to bring huge benefits to the Amazon tribe.

In fact, Roy also wanted to get the territory of the Amazon tribe.

After all, the Macedonian and Thracian plains ruled by the Amazon tribes can not only become rich food-producing areas, but also have super-large gold mines, submarine oil and other resources.

It is a pity that Loy has not yet completely solved the food problem of the Kingdom of Athens. If the hundreds of thousands of people from the Amazon tribe are included in the Kingdom of Athens, the unsolvable food problem will fall on Loy.

So even if Roy longs to turn the Great Plains of Macedonia and Thrace into the grain-producing areas of the Kingdom of Athens, longs to obtain super-large gold mines, and longs to obtain oil resources, Roy must now firmly reject Hippolyta.

When the Kingdom of Athens becomes self-sufficient in food and is even rich enough to support the Amazon tribe's hundreds of thousands of people, even if Hippolyta doesn't want to marry Loy, Loy will use war to conquer the Amazon tribe.

Time flies to the first day of July - the day when Loy gets married to Procne and Philomela.

On this day, like a grand festival held for the gods, the city of Athens slaughtered dozens of cattle and sheep, made barbecue and distributed it to every family in Athens.

Acropolis of Athens.

All the wedding guests gathered at the Temple of Metis to witness the wedding.

It's noon.

After Roy, Procne and Philomela dressed up, Roy held the hands of Procne and Philomela, and the three of them walked into the recently built Temple of Metis, which was twelve meters high.

Hundreds of guests stood on both sides of the aisle in the temple, looking at Roy, who was wearing a gold crown, a gold belt, and gold shoes, and Roy, who was wearing a white dress, a gold necklace, a gold belt, and gold feet.

Sandals of Procne and Philomela.

Pandion and Zeuxiper stood at the foot of the statue of Metis, waiting for the three of them.

Loy, Procne, and Philomela walked up to Pandion and Zeuxiper. Pandion looked at the two daughters who were about to truly belong to Loy with a complex expression, his eyes full of reluctance.

In this era, unmarried girls belonged to their fathers and brothers.

After getting married, a girl belongs completely to her husband.

In other words, after Roy married Procne and Philomela, Roy, as her husband, was the most important family member to them.

Under the gazes of the guests, Pandion put away his reluctance to let his two daughters get married and said loudly with a serious face.

"Loy! In the presence of the great goddess Metis and all the guests, are you going to marry Procne and Philomela and become their husband who will love and care for them forever?"

Roy said without hesitation.

"The goddess Metis and all the guests witness that I will be the husband of Procne and Philomela, and I will love and care for them forever."

"The great gods and guests have witnessed your vows. I hope you will never forget this day."

After Pandion warned Loy, Zeuxiper spoke to Procne and Philomela.

"Procne! Philomela! In the presence of the great goddess Metis and all the guests, are you willing to marry Roy and become a loyal wife and bear children for him?"

Procne and Philomela looked at each other and said in unison.

"The great goddess Metis and the guests witnessed that we will become brother Roy's wife and fulfill our wife's responsibilities and obligations for brother Roy."

Three thousand six hundred years later, as long as a man and a woman register and receive a marriage certificate, they are legally recognized as husband and wife.

But in this era, if you want to become a legally recognized couple, you must hold a wedding witnessed by gods and guests.

If there is no formal wedding, no matter how many sweet words a man says to a woman, the woman's identity is just the man's side wife or even his lover.

Common men usually cannot afford to have three wives and four concubines, so even if there is no wedding, it will not affect the relationship between husband and wife.

Of course, those who really need weddings are the royal families and nobles who have many women.

Women who marry royal families and nobles need a wedding to establish their status as a head wife and ensure their identity and the inheritance rights of their children.

In the myth of another world, Jason was able to abandon Medea without any scruples because Medea was only Jason's concubine or lover.

Without a wedding as a guarantee, even if Medea lived with Jason for ten years and gave birth to three children for Jason, Medea's identity was not Jason's wife.

Medea, who was beguiled by the power of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, handed herself over to Jason who neither provided her with a wedding nor a house in a strange cave on a dark night.

The tragedy was doomed from the beginning.

It is precisely because Roy does not want to become a scumbag like Jason that he always rejects the girls around him and insists on marrying them and then letting them become his wives.

Now--

Roy's wedding to Procne and Philomela means that Roy can finally exercise his power as a husband.

Procne and Philomela spoke the oath witnessed by the gods and guests, and Pandion immediately threatened Loy without giving up.

"My son! If you dare to hurt Procne and Philomela, I will never let you go."

Roy rolled his eyes and said without fear.

"Dear father-in-law! Now Procne and Philomela completely belong to me, you don't have to worry, I will never let others hurt them."

"Am I worried about other people? I'm worried about you—"

After the wedding was completed, the guests began to present gifts to Roy.

They offered jewelry made of gold and silver, pearls and precious stones, or beautiful slave women.

When a former city-state king of Naxos presented a gift, the former city-state king came to Loy and said.

"Great King of Athens, I have prepared a special gift for you and the two queens. I hope you can come to the square outside."

Special gift?

Roy led everyone outside the temple, and the former city-state king of Naxos Island immediately walked up to two tall slave men and said.

"Now it's your turn to perform. I will let the winner among you go free as promised."

Then, the former city-state king asked his followers to hand over the bronze war spear and wooden shield to the two slave men.

Seeing two slave men pick up bronze war spears and wooden shields and start fighting, Roy realized that the so-called special gift turned out to be a gladiatorial performance between slaves.

Slave owners let their slaves fight each other to please themselves, which has begun in ancient times.

In the Roman era, professional gladiators were developed.

In order to watch the performances of gladiators, 1,500 years later, the Romans built a circular gladiatorial arena known as an architectural miracle.

Seeing that the guests, the original ruling class of the Kingdom of Athens, were all watching the fight between the two slaves with great interest, Roy's face became ugly.

Although the Roman Empire admired gladiator performances, it also launched a slave uprising launched by the Thracian Spartacus.

Roy didn't want the Kingdom of Athens to become the second largest in the Roman Empire and create a professional slave gladiatorial performance.
Chapter completed!