In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the combination of history and mythology is addictive. For example, centaur sculpture, Kefalonia, Naxos, and Algolis, etc., are all scenes and contents that are highly combined with history and mythology, ancient Greek mythology is all over the game world, and the thickness of history adds to this excellent literary work. And most of the historical characters in the game are real, let me take stock of the famous historical figures in Assassin's Creed - Odyssey.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Sophocles</h1>
Sophocles (c. 496 BC – 406 BC), a Cronosian, one of the three great tragedies of Athens, showed outstanding musical talent at a young age. Representative works include Antigone and Oedipus The King.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > Euripides</h1>
Euripides (480 BC - 406 BC) was one of the three great tragedies of Athens, and he wrote more than ninety works in his lifetime, of which eighteen have survived to this day. The "philosopher on the stage" in ancient Greece refers to Euripides. Representative works include "Cyclops", "Arctis" and so on.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > Aeschylus</h1>
Aeschylus was born in 525 BC in Eleusis, Attica, Greece, and died in 456 BC. He was also one of the three great tragedies of Athens, but he never appeared in the game. Representative works include "Bound Prometheus", "Agamemnon", "The Good One" (or "Vengeance Goddess") and so on.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > Aristophanes</h1>
Aristophanes (c. 446 BC – 385 BC) was a representative writer of early comedy in ancient Greece, a citizen of Athens, born in Kudatnaion of Attica, and spent most of his life in Athens, associating with philosophers Socrates and Plato. Representative works include "The Arcanaean", "Knight", "Peace", "Bird", "Frog" and so on.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > Socrates</h1>
Socrates (470 BC – 399 BC) was one of the founders of Greek (Athenian) philosophy. Together with his student Plato and Plato's student Aristotle, he is known as the Three Sages of Greece. Socrates' depictions of art, literature, and popular culture made him one of the most widely known figures in the Western philosophical tradition.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > Plato</h1>
Plato (427 BC – 347 BC) was the great philosopher of ancient Greece and one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers in the entire Western culture. Concepts he created or developed include: Platonic thought, Platonism, Platonic love, etc. Plato's main works are dialogues, most of which feature Socrates. But the academic community generally believes that the image of Socrates in it is not exactly the real socrates in history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > Herodotus</h1>
Herodotus (c. 480 BC ~ 425 BC) ancient Greek writer and historian, he traveled to see, as well as the historical records of the First Persian Empire, wrote a book "History" (Ἱστορίαι), which became the first complete prose work in the history of Western literature, and Herodotus was also revered as the "father of history".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > Democritus</h1>
Democritus (c. 460 BC – 370 BC), born in the commercial city of Abdera on the Thrace Coast, was one of the great Greek materialist philosophers and one of the founders of the doctrine of atomic materialism (the first to propose atomism (everything is made of atoms)). The great ancient Greek philosopher Lyukibb (Greek: Λεύκιππος, English: Leucippus or Leukippos. c. 500 BC ~ c. 440 BC) student.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > Phidias</h1>
Phidias (480 BC ~ 430 BC) famous works such as the Colossus of Zeus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and the Colossus of Athena in the Temple of Patrinon, both of which have long been destroyed, but many ancient replicas have been handed down, including the Colossus of Athena, which was even made in the United States at the end of the twentieth century.
Overview of the statue of Athena, picture from Baidu Encyclopedia
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" > Hippocrates</h1>
Hippocrates (460 BC ~ 370 BC) was a physician in the ancient Greek Pericles era, and was revered by the West as the "father of medicine" and the founder of Western medicine. Putting forward the "humor theory", his medical views had a great influence on the development of Western medicine in the future. The Hippocratic Oath is Hippocrates' holy code of ancient Greek professional ethics admonishing mankind, and the proposal he issued to the medical community on industry ethics is an important content to be learned from the first lesson of medical personnel, and it is also a requirement for self-discipline in the words and deeds of all professionals in society.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="48" > Pericles</h1>
Pericles (c. 495 BC – 429 BC) was an influential leader of the Athenian Golden Age (the Persian War to the Peloponnesian War). He rebuilt Athens in the ruins of the Post-Persian War, fostering culture and art, and many of the surviving ancient Greek buildings were built in his time. He also helped Athens defeat the Spartans in the first phase of the Peloponnesian War. It is particularly important that he nurtured the democratic forces that were considered very radical at the time. His time, also known as the Pericles age, was the most glorious era of Athens, producing a number of well-known thinkers such as Socrates and Plato.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="53" > Aspasia</h1>
Aspasia was the lover of the famous ancient Greek politician Pericles, and due to the relationship between men and women in ancient times, there is almost no record of her in the history books, but at that time she did move the entire Greek peninsula with her beauty and wisdom. Most of Pericles' speeches are said to have come from the hand of his brilliant lover.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="57" > Budacillas</h1>
Brasidas (died 422 BC) was a famous Spartan general who lived in the fifth century BC and was the first general of the Peloponnesian War.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" > Pythagoras</h1>
Pythagoras (c. 580 BC – c. 500 BC ( 490 ) ) ) was an ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher , known as the father of mathematics. Pythagoras was a little more advanced than some of his contemporaries, who taught, because he allowed women (aristocratic women, of course, not slave maids) to attend the lectures. He believed that women had the same right to learn as men, so there were more than a dozen female scholars in his school. This is a phenomenon that no other school of thought has.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="65" > Leonidas I</h1>
Leonidas I (?–480 BC), at the Battle of Spa Pass in the Second Hippocic War. He led 300 Spartan warriors to resist the invasion of the Persian Empire's army, and eventually all of them were killed. His heroic performance made him one of the heroes of ancient Greece.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="70" > Xerxes I</h1>
Xerxes I (c. 519 BC – 465 BC) was king of Persia, who fought the Persian War during his reign and died in a palace coup.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="74" > Artaxerxes I</h1>
Artaxerxes I (?) ~425 BC), son of Xerxes I.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="79" > Pitia</h1>
Pitiana was the ancient Greek priestess of Apollo, serving the Temple of Delphi on Mount Panaces.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" > Termistocles</h1>
The ancient Greek Athenian statesman Termistocles (c. 528 BC – 462 BC). In 490 BC, the Greek army defeated the Persian army at the Battle of Marathon, and everyone thought that the defeat of the Persian army at the Battle of Marathon was the end of the war, but Dimistickli believed that it was the prelude to a larger war. Out of the foresight of the state, he believed that the only way was to develop a navy so that Greece had more warships, and proposed to build three-story oared warships with the mineral resources of the Silver Mountain in Lauriem, southeast of Attica. This was the construction plan of the world-famous Navy of Themistokeli at that time. As a result, Athens used this money to build 100 three-oared warships, becoming Greece's premier naval city-state, and in 480 BC, it defeated the Persian navy and took control of the sea. He is also known as the "father of the Athenian Navy".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="90" > Sisyphus</h1>
According to homer, Sisyphus was the most resourceful man on earth, the founder and king of Corinth. When Zeus kidnapped Aegina, the daughter of the river god Aesopus, who had gone to Collins to find her daughter, Sisyphus, who knew about the incident, told him in exchange for a river that flowed through all seasons. Having revealed Zeus's secret, Zeus sent Death to take him to hell. Unexpectedly, Sisyphus kidnapped the God of Death with a trick, resulting in no one dying in the human world for a long time, until the God of Death was rescued, and Sisyphus was beaten into the underworld. Before being beaten into the underworld, Sisyphus instructed his wife, Merope, not to bury his body. After arriving in the Underworld, Sisyphus told Persephone that a person who had not been buried was not eligible to stay in the Underworld, and asked for three days of leave to deal with his own affairs. Unexpectedly, as soon as Sisyphus saw the beautiful earth, he did not want to go back to the underworld. Until his death, Sisyphus was expelled to the side of hell, where he would push a large heavy stone to a very steep mountain every day, and then take a step out to the side, and then watch the big stone roll to the bottom of the mountain. Sisyphus repeated this meaningless action forever and without any hope.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="98" > Hades</h1>
Hades (Greek: Ἅιδης, English: Hades), also known as Hades, Hades, etc., was the king of the underworld in ancient Greek mythology, and also the god in charge of the plague, who once infected the city-state of Thebes with a deadly plague until two maidens, Metius and Menipe, voluntarily sacrificed, and the plague stopped. In some versions, it is one of the twelve main gods of Olympus. He is the eldest son of kronos and Rhea, the second generation of gods, and the eldest brother of Poseidon and Zeus. His consort was the god king Zeus and the daughter of the agricultural goddess Demeter, the goddess of grain seeds, Persephone.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="103" > Titios</h1>
Titius (Greek: Τιτυός) was a giant in Greek mythology (one theory holds that he was the god of the earth). According to pseudo-Apolodoros in the Library, Titios was born to Zeus and the mortal maiden Elara, while Homer said in the Odysseus that his mother was Gaia. The great eagle pecked at Titius, and the author hid Ellara underground for Titian Zeus in order not to let Hera discover that he was having an affair with a human woman, where Titius was born (and it is also possible that the theory that Titius was born to Caia came from). Titius was a monster that grew so fast that he tore his mother's womb apart. Titius developed a strong lust for leto, the goddess of the night, and attempted to her, and was shot with a bow and arrow by her children, the twin siblings Artemis and Apollo. It is said that Titius became obsessed with Leto because of Hera's curse. Titius was beaten into the underworld after his death, where two giant eagles kept pecking at his internal organs.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="113" > conclusion</h1>
Why did Odyssey conquer the Heights in so many Assassin's Creed games? It is because of the continuation and development of ancient Greek culture, the introduction of new ideas, and the constant accommodation of new myths and histories, this game really does it. As players, while advancing the progress of the game, we can also experience the history of ancient Greece and Sparta, wars, and myths. After completing the level, you can also taste the plot of the game, the characters of the game, the content of the game, learn the history of ancient Greece, and taste the torrent of ideas of ancient Greek philosophers.
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