Chapter 257 Cheap Daughter Seven Muses

The city of Thebes, which occupies an important position in both Greek mythology and real history, was founded by Cadmus, an immigrant from the Phoenician region.

Therefore, Cadmus became the founder of the city of Thebes. Cadmus and his wife Harmonia were also worshipped as ancestral gods after their death.

As the founder of the city, Cadmus was undoubtedly the first king of the city of Thebes.

After Cadmus' death, his grandson Pentheus seized the throne.

Later, Cadmus' son Polydorus, as the orthodox heir, killed his nephew Pentheus and took back his own throne.

Hundreds of years later, the worshippers of Dionysus, the god of wine, imitated the worshippers of Apollo and directly used force to help Dionysus enter the Delphi Temple, making Apollo and Dionysus become brother gods who replaced the original owners of the Delphi Temple, Themis and Mnemosyne.

The myth maker set up Dionysus's life story, making Dionysus' mother Semele one of the daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia, and Dionysus the son of Zeus and Semele.

In order to reflect Dionysus's military seizure of the Theban region, the myth maker created the myth that Dionysus wanted to become the patron saint of Thebes during the reign of Pentheus, but was rejected by the Theban king Pentheus, so he used the power of the gods to destroy Pentheus.

After Polydorus died, his son Labdacus inherited the throne.

But after Labdacus' death, Amphion, Labdacus' cousin, a relative of the Theban royal family, took the throne and expelled his young nephew Lainus.

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Now Amphion and his wife Niobe rule Thebes. They not only developed Thebes, but also built seven strong walls for Thebes.

According to the myth, Lainus is Amphion's cousin, and Niobe is Loin's aunt.

This is why Lainus dared to take Loin back to Thebes.

As long as Lainus did not show his ambition to regain the throne, Amphion, who was a cousin of his father Labdacus, could tolerate his existence.

In order to return to Thebes as quickly as possible, Loin and Lainus did not go by land, but took a boat from Aetolia to Thebes.

Thebes.

Loin and Lainus returned to this city that they were both familiar with, and Loin felt a little complicated.

Because in this era, the two guardian goddesses of Thebes did not incarnate as human princesses.

In other words, Loin could no longer hear the beautiful voices of them calling him "brother".

Palace

Luo Yin and Laingos came to the gate to show their identities. Upon hearing the news, King Amphion came to greet Luo Yin and Laingos in person.

As Luo Yin's cheap uncle and Laingos's cousin, Amphion attached so much importance to the two, of course, because Amphion regarded Laingos as a threat to the throne.

In the myths made up by people hundreds of years later, Amphion was set as the son of Zeus and Antiope, the daughter of Niketheus, the regent of the Kingdom of Thebes, and Niobe was set as the daughter of Tantalus, the son of Zeus.

According to the logic of mythology, except for illegitimate children whose fathers are unknown, only those who have made great contributions to the gods can get the honor of being deified as demigods.

During the reign of Amphion, the city of Thebes had almost no intersection with the Mycenaeans.

So Amphion and Niobe became the son and granddaughter of Zeus, and there is a high probability that the Mycenaeans helped Zeus to take the initiative to make the king and queen of the powerful Kingdom of Thebes the son and granddaughter of Zeus.

The palace hall.

Loyin and Laingos followed Amphion here, and Amphion's wife Niobe, as well as their seven sons and seven daughters, also came.

The hall became lively, and Queen Niobe immediately ordered the palace maids to prepare a grand banquet.

After everyone sat down around the banquet table, Amphion and Niobe enthusiastically introduced their seven sons and seven daughters to Loyin and Laingos - that is, Loyin and Laingos' seven cousins.

Seven - this is really a magical number.

During the reign of Amphion and Niobe, they built seven gates for the city of Thebes, and the children they gave birth to were also seven sons and seven daughters.

If the children of Amphion and Niobe had real prototypes, I am afraid that the seven sons of Amphion and Niobe represent the seven gates guarding the city of Thebes.

The seven daughters of Amphion and Niobe are the incarnations of the seven Muses in the Thebes region.

Although hundreds of years later, Muses is a general term for the nine daughters of Mnemosyne.

But in the more ancient times, in addition to the trinity of Muse Mnemosyne, there were seven Muses called the Seven Muses.

In the Thebes region, the origin of the Muses was originally the image of the priestess who performed with musical instruments during the sacrificial ceremony was absorbed by the goddess.

Because the number of musical instruments was small in ancient times, the priestess who used three musical instruments was absorbed by the goddess and became the trinity of Muse Mnemosyne.

When the number of musical instruments increased with the development of the times, there were the Seven Muses, and finally developed into the well-known Nine Muses.

The era when Amphion ruled Thebes was hundreds of years older than the era when the Nine Muses were born.

That is to say, in this era when the Nine Muses had not yet been born, the seven daughters of Amphion and Niobe were the incarnations of the Seven Muses, and this possibility did exist.

After Amphion and Niobe introduced the identities of Loin, Lainus, and their children as elders, Amphion could not wait to ask Lainus.

"Dear Lainus, although your father Labdacus and I are cousins, our relationship is like that of brothers, and I also treat you as my own son. Can you tell me the purpose of your return to Thebes?"

Lainus was certainly not naive enough to believe Amphion's words and show his ambition to regain the throne.

He explained carefully.

"Dear uncle, I returned to Thebes only because I missed my hometown. Seeing that Thebes was becoming increasingly powerful under the rule of my uncle, I just wanted to be an ordinary royal family and had no ambition to compete with my uncle for the throne."

Amphion had ruled Thebes for so many years, and of course he would not regard the young Lainus as an enemy.

He would be on guard against Lainus because he regarded Lainus as a threat to compete with his sons for the throne.

Seeing that Lainus did not show any ambition for the throne, Amphion nodded with satisfaction.

"Then you stay in Thebes, I will definitely take care of you as my own son."

Niobe also asked Luo Yin with a smile on her face.

"My child, why did you come to Thebes with Lainus? How is my brother Pelops doing now?"

Hearing Niobe's question, Luo Yin could only force a smile and said.

"I don't know how Pelops is doing. I came to Thebes to visit my lovely cheap daughters."

After saying that, Luo Yin looked at the seven daughters of Amphion and Niobe.

Since the nine Muses are set as the daughters of Mnemosyne, the seven Muses are likely to be the daughters of Mnemosyne.

As Mnemosyne's husband, Luo Yin felt that the seven Muses were naturally his cheap daughters.