The Greece Antagonist

Chapter 189 The Fall of Themis (8k completed today)

Several days later, atop a lonely island.

Stars scattered across the sky, the night as tranquil as water, Themis leaned back in her chair, perusing through the dozen or so parchment scrolls titled "Aesop's Fables Collection."

The stories within were concise and powerful, with apt metaphors and vivid imagery, and the language was both witty and humorous. Reading them carefully, each contained hidden wisdom, offering insights to people of varying ages and creatures in different states of mind.

Soon, Themis finished the first dozen fables, her attention then captured by an intriguing story among them.

The gist of it was that a father, for the sake of a sacrifice, killed his daughter, the mother harbored resentment, colluding with her lover to kill the father, and the son, in the name of revenge, killed his mother.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

And the verdict of arbitration was that the son should be released as innocent.

This kind of just revenge should be forgiven.

"Is such a judgment not too absurd?"

After contemplating for a moment, Themis lifted her head, looked toward the figure beside her, and shook her head with a frown.

Luo En, the author, considerately poured a glass of ice-cold honey water for the Goddess of Justice and explained with a smile.

"In the son's eyes, the mother is merely the killer of his father, an enemy. Setting aside the concept of mother, isn't avenging his father a righteous act?"

Themis briefly pondered and solemnly retorted.

"If the son is innocent, then what fault does the mother have, who avenges her daughter? There's no need to whitewash her act of kin-slaying. If their sins offset one another, he is merely the killer of an innocent woman."

Ultimately, Athena, forced to take sides, cast the deciding vote; Orestes, the matricide, was proclaimed innocent and returned to Mycenae to ascend the throne.

If the Goddess of Justice had been involved and had thrown Gaea's argument that she asexually created Uranus, the Heavenly Father, in Apollo's face, surely the expression on the Sun God would have been quite a spectacle.

After all, the original Heavenly Father was created by the mother; should not the mother's act of revenging her daughter by killing the pitiless father be even more commendable?

Don't forget, that Heavenly Father was castrated by his son Kronos at the behest of Gaea.

If Apollo dares to claim again that the father's status is higher than the mother's and that avenging the father is more justifiable, he would be slapping the face of that old grandmother of Greece.

Of course, this theory Luo En can also apply for his own purposes.

After all, between him and Zeus, there exists the blood feud of matricide.

Since the Goddess Themis, upholding "justice," views the mother's status as higher than the father's, wouldn't it also be right to avenge his mother and kill that old thing of Olympus?

Thinking this through, Luo En's eyes narrowed slightly, his question loaded with ill intent.

"So in your view, should the son who killed the mother for his father be sentenced to death?"

Themis still shook her head, pondered for a moment, and responded.

"If I were to judge, I would choose exile, not the death penalty."

"Oh? Why is that? This is the grave crime of matricide."