Chapter 41: Poetry
"This wave is not a loss." Yan Luo thought to himself.
The accumulation of emotions in the heartless puppet has rapidly increased to more than 70 points, and it is still rising.
"Oh......"
A noblewoman's eyes lit up and she let out an aria-like moan.
The Greeks originally admired the beauty of the human body, and Yanluo was an Oriental, and in the eyes of Westerners, his appearance had a certain feminine slenderness. The Greeks of this era liked masculine beauty as well as feminine beauty - in Athens, many handsome young people called them "beloved", and even pursuing young "beloved" was considered a civil power.
Achilles, the most revered hero of Homer's epic poems, is a pseudo-beautiful young man.
Yanluo's complexion is as radiant as ivory, and the muscle contours give a strong and powerful feeling, but the lines are soft and not exaggerated, and she has a delicate appearance for Westerners......
This time, it literally ignited the whole square!
"I saw divinity."
Someone exclaimed.
It was noon, and the sun was shining down on her fair skin, gilding her with a faint layer of gold, and Yan Luo seemed to be standing in a halo of light.
"Apollo!"
Suddenly, someone called out such a name.
Apollo was one of the most recognizable Greek gods, the god of the sun, the god of art, the god of medicine, and the god of prophecy...... Considered to be the most versatile and handsome male god, in "Ode to Homer", he is even called the first beautiful man in heaven and earth, the prototype of beauty.
Everyone found that this golden young man was like a god descending into the world.
"Apollo!"
Someone else shouted, and then the shouts became more and more loud and louder, and the voices almost merged into a torrent.
You feel strong emotions:
Excitement +1, Affection +1, Excitement +1......
The 100 points of emotion accumulated by the heartless puppet are full, and this time there are more than 10 types of emotions, which are more miscellaneous than the last time, and making a personality mask will almost certainly fail, but Yan Luo doesn't care and still chooses to fuse.
"Smack."
Another failure.
"Personality Mask Fragments: 13%"
"Gollum ......"
Euripides was so angry and angry that his eyes fell to the groundβhe was stunned.
Pericles' consuls, senators, and parliamentarians looked at each other one by one, originally this time to impress the Chinese envoys and raise the prestige of Greece and Athens, but now ...... Herodotus lost his soul, Euripides fell into a coma, and many citizens and Gentiles seemed to have rebelled, and they were actually cheering for the youth of China?
In fact, this is not a rebellion, but Yanluo's detachment, which can be said to have changed the attitude of all the Greeks who had previously dissed him, and some of them, which can be regarded as attracting a wave of passers-by.
"Brother Wang...... You say, I'll take it off too, will it be so popular? Zhu Xiaoyong said in Chinese to Wang Dongwei, who was almost petrified next to him.
It was not easy to stabilize his mood, and Wang Dongwei looked at it with an "indifferent" expression that could be used as an emoji.
"Maybe the Greeks have a special aesthetic hobby...... Zhu Xiaoyong said unconvinced, he thought about it and said, "The Tang Dynasty, fat is beautiful, if I travel back to that era, maybe it will be a beautiful man who oppresses the Tang Dynasty!" β
Wang Dongwei: "......"
Yanluo fully displayed her body, until the Heartless Doll could not absorb the strong emotions, and then put on the straight-lined deep coat again.
Several soldiers ran over and carried Euripides, who was unconscious, and Herodotus, who was sitting on the ground with a pensive expression, down, and Sophocles, another master of tragedy, took the opportunity to use an ash branch cane to knock Euripides on the buttocks of his nemesis.
"Waste." He scolded.
The old man looked at Yanluo.
"Boy."
Sophocles is now in his 70s, and it is a miracle that he lived to this age in BC, after all, the average life expectancy of the Greeks is only 3 or 40 years. But this old guy, in fact, will not die until he is 90 years old, and he is an out-and-out birthday star.
Now, it is far from death, and it seems to be trembling, but in fact it is full of energy and combat power.
This old man is a legend of Athens, having participated in 30 drama competitions in his lifetime and won 24 championships!
"What you just said, shame, is human nature, and even barbarians will not show their bodies...... You sarcastically mock us Greeks, naked, not ashamed, but proud, but why did you take off your clothes just now? Doesn't this act contradict your words? β
Yan Luo looked at the tragic master, and said in a flat tone: "This is to show you a truth, my beautiful body is willing to hide under clothes, the beauty of our China, beauty is inside, beauty is in the connotation!" After being naked, I immediately put on my clothes because I was ashamed. β
Some Athenians whispered to each other about whether the idea of nakedness was wrong all along.
There are also people who talk about "Huaxia" and are curious about this country that they have never heard of.
Questioning failed, Sophocles's heart was not discouraged, which was also expected, just now from the bystanders, you can feel the difficulty of this young man - he walked around Yanluo on crutches to find a breakthrough to belittle the other party and open the situation.
He saw the jade around Yanluo's waist.
"That'...... What is it? β
The old man sneered, "You actually put a stone on your body? β
"It's not stone, it's jade." The "jade" that Yanluo said has no vocabulary in ancient Greece, and Greece now has words for stone, marble, chalcedony, gemstones and other objects, and the name of jade has not yet appeared.
So he spoke directly in Chinese: "yu"
"In our Chinese culture, jade represents a gentleman, a gentleman, that is, a scholar with moral character, as the so-called: people are virtuous and jade, people are not virtuous and are stones, and people lack virtue and become stubborn stones."
"A broken stone can also represent virtue? Amusing! Our Athenian marble is 10,000 times better than this stone! Look at the grandiose and magnificent temples that even the gods would admire, and the statues carved by sculptors and decorated by artists. β
Sophocles pointed to the temple on the hill.
It has to be said that the architecture and carvings of ancient Greece are indeed shocking.
"Gentle and moist, benevolent; Honest but not sloppy, righteous also; Hanging and falling like a pendant, the salute is also; Knock it, its sound is clearer, and it will end with a long time, and it will be happy; Flawed Yu sees each other, loyal also; Meticulous and wise; Fu Yin Punda, Xin Ye; Guizhang Teda, Deye; The air is like a white rainbow, and the sky is also; The spirit runs through the mountains and rivers, and the earth also; There is no noble person in the world, and the Tao is also. β
This is a passage from the Book of Rites and Appointments.
After finishing in Chinese, he translated it again in Greek.
Benevolence, loyalty, wisdom, integrity...... These simple moral concepts are very attractive in this era, and many scholars have secretly nodded their heads, isn't this what democratic Athens pursues and praises for human nature?
I can't imagine that what "jade" actually contains such a profound truth.
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
Some applauded Yanluo's words.
I have to say that with a good face and a good figure, there are still advantages.
It's like a saying: handsome people feel handsome when they play glass balls, and ugly people play golf like shoveling...... Yanluo had such a face, and the Greeks seemed to be strong and soft, with a perfect body, and he said something philosophical, which immediately aroused the admiration of many people.
The emotions in the heartless puppet are rising rapidly.
Although there were not many people who applauded, the applause was particularly harsh to hear in Sophocles's ears.
"Humph......"
This old man was extremely displeased that as a Greek, he supported the Gentiles! Still an insult to Greek civilization, he secretly swore in his heart that he would completely overwhelm this young man, and he decided to come up with what he was best at: poetry.
"For a country to have a flourishing civilization, there must be a premise, that is, materials can provide the soil for the birth of culture, and prosperous Athens is such a land. We will once again water it with democracy, rationality, and wisdom to bloom the splendid flower of civilization...... And among civilizations, the most beautiful is undoubtedly poetry. β
He chanted:
"When the destined fate of the king of Hades appears,
At that time, there were no wedding songs, strings, and dances.
Death has finally arrived.
It is better for a person not to be born;
Once born, seek second,
Where did you come from, and where do you get back as soon as possible?
When he got through the absurd youth,
What suffering could he have avoided?
Envy, breakup, quarrels, fights, and killings followed.
Finally, that hateful old age came,
Elderly and sick, without relatives and friends. β
This is a poem from Sophocles's play "Oedipus in Chronos", and it is also his proudest and most satisfying poem. β
He has reasons for pride, and this poem describes the helplessness of life, the impermanence of fate, and at the same time laments the old age, which is thought-provoking.
"Whoa......
A large number of Athenian citizens applauded, much louder than the applause that Yanluo had just received.
"This poem is really emotional."
"The best poetry is one that resonates with the hearts of others, and Sophocles is worthy of the treasure of our Greeks."
"That Huaxia envoy, there will be nothing to say at this time, right? After all, poetry is the precipitation of civilization, and a barbarian empire like Persia could not have given birth to such poetry. β
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Some scholars have been discussing.
However, the defeat of Herodotus and Euripides by this Chinese envoy is enough to be proud even if he is defeated at the hands of Sophocles.
Seeing that the old man raised his cane and accepted the applause of the people around him, and even some people were cheering, Yan Luo shook his head: "How can my Chinese poetry culture be compared to your Greece?" β
"In that case, then I'll recite two lines of poetry."