Ancient Greece is rightfully considered the cradle, if not of European civilization, then of European culture. Art, philosophy, such scientific disciplines as history and geography - when we talk about them, our mind involuntarily turns to Ancient Greece and recalls the big names of ancient Attica or Sparta. But to what extent does our knowledge about Ancient Greece, instilled in us from school, correspond to reality? Are there any distortions introduced into them both by previous centuries and by our contemporaries? Andrei Savelyev took on a daunting, but also extremely interesting task: like an archaeologist removing the thousand-year-old layers that hid the ruins of an ancient city, to free our knowledge about Ancient Greece from lies and errors, so that this delightful page of human history shines not only with legends and myths, but also with its no less fascinating – true – history.