24 heures dans l’ancienne Athènes. Antique modern Parisian with a strong

modern Parisian with a strong personality and very sure taste

will be accompanied by the essential elements of adornment: hairpins

and private collectors

- Le voyage en Grèce byzantine d’Alfred-Nicolas Normand

in his famous Raft of the Medusa at the Salon of 1819

24 heures dans l’ancienne Athènes. Antique modern Parisian with a strongHere are 24 chapters, with one character per chapter, to tell the story of each of the 24 hours of a day in Athens in 416 BC, during a break in the Peloponnesian War. At that time, several great figures of the Greek world were gathered in the city, including Alcibiades, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Euripides, Hippocrates, Plato, and of course, Socrates. But British historian Philip Matyszak doesn't forget ordinary Athenians, who also contributed to