The young hero Perseus killed the monster Gorgon Medusa. Everyone knows about this feat. But few people know how thirty years later the great Perseus entered into war with Dionysus, wanting to stop the victorious march of the god across Argolis. The two sons of Zeus clashed in a battle to the death. Blood flowed, bacchantes rampaged, men took up spears. The past was turning inside out, and the future was threatening with lightning. The grandson of Perseus, the boy Amphitryon, had a harsh fate - to be next to his grandfather in his war. The new novel by G. L. Oldie - the third novel of the famous "Achaean Cycle", to which the authors worked for ten years - tells about the events preceding the books "Hero there must be one" and "Odysseus, son of Laertes." An ancient Greece of gods and heroes, kings and monsters rises before you - a beautiful stranger whose gaze can turn you to stone. Hellas, described by the star duo Oldie, has long won the love and recognition of readers.