Archidamus Eurpontid
King of Sparta
Spinning Wheels and Insulting Children, 27 August 481 AUC to 31 March August 488 AUC
We finally have enough gold to make a proper sacrifice to the gods!
My devout five year old son Alcetus felt that the proper way to honor the gods would be to sacrifice 100 virgins. Kid, in about 15 years you will feel pretty stupid for suggesting that.
The new Chief Priest Areus, The Not Nearly As Traitorous As His Father Acrotatus, instead insisted on a massive and elaborate ceremony with games, prizes, feasting, tons of public speeches and finally, I had to personally sacrifice 10 White Bulls to appease Zeus. It was disgusting.
Next time, I’ll just throw the money in the ocean. Poseidon will know who it’s for.
Our Auxiliaries think a little too highly of themselves. And apparently a little too highly of the Spartan treasury.
They won’t be missed.
I was talking to the Chief Priest today and he kept going on and on about what a bright young boy Alcetus is and what an asset he’d make to the priesthood.
This all came as a surprise to me. I’d written him off as a total dunderhead after the whole “let’s sacrifice the pretty young women” thing.
I have given myself command of the newest army of Hoplites. This is for two reasons. First – I need to redeem myself over that whole Barbarian War thing. Second – and I kid you not – the only person more qualified than me to lead the new army was Acrotatus The Traitor, the guy I fired as Chief Priest.
Stuttering Ephron sent me some interesting information today. He claims that Bithynia used to be part of Thracia and, since we own Thracia, Bithynia should be ours.
Of course, since the current owners of Bithynia are allied with mighty Pontus, nothing will probably come from this. Why couldn’t Achaia have been part of Thracia?
As Alcetus shows himself to be a bigger and bigger fool and tool every day, I am starting to worry about the evil Agiad family’s interest in him. Alcetus will have to be sent away as soon as he is old enough. Maybe I’ll let him command the boat for a while.
The Thracians are rebelling. I am starting to regret not paying any money to the soldiers for so long.
Unsurprisingly, the army ran away. At least Xanthippus got the blame for it all. Hopefully, Stuttering Ephron can hold the city until the soldiers can be bribed back into battle.
Well, that actually turned out pretty well.
So Archidamus did not die, but he also did not push for Spartan Glory. He did, however, push for Spartan bankruptcy by actually paying the army. Join us next time when Eudamidas gets a new job and Stuttering Ephron gets the shaft on the next exciting episode of
Unrelated Note: Next update I will begin editing pictures, rather than using the whole screen shot. My reasoning till now has been that, since Rome is a new game, people might be interested in seeing the whole screen, but really, I think I'm just being lazy.