A pleasant journey from democratic Athens of rhetorical struggles and theatrical performances to the famous Library of Alexandria, which played a decisive role in the creation of reliable editions of Homer's epics and the collection of all the intellectual wealth of antiquity, and to the Byzantine monasteries where, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the great wealth of antiquity was preserved and saved, the reader holds in his hands an absolutely entertaining book that aims to offer him important knowledge in a pleasant way.

From the eccentric founder of the great Library of Alexandria, Demetrius of Phaleron, who had a weakness for married women and political intrigues, to the scholar of the Middle Ages Peter Abelard, the adventurer Alexander von Humboldt, the admirable Kiouri family, and up to the era of the internet, the reader has in his hands an irresistible reading!