In the 7th century BC, the great colonization in the western Mediterranean and the Black Sea is noted, though this does not mean that the Greek presence was not emblematic even earlier.

In the 12th century, Aeneas, the demigod, leaves his heart in Carthage and his crown in Latium. He had no luck. Odysseus, after ten years of marriage and engagements, finally freed himself from witches and queens to return to Ithaca.

The Hellenism of 700 BC awaits us in Southern Italy to admire the grand monuments, the multifaceted engineering of Archimedes, which was confirmed after 2,200 years to be considered pioneering with the ocean liner that he himself named Syracuse and anchored forever in the unique harbor that could accommodate it, that of Alexandria.

The pioneering work in anatomy because Hippocrates prohibited it out of respect for the dead. The evolution of ophthalmology. The abolition of monarchy, the development of rhetoric, and the rise of sophistry. Voyages to the northern Iceland and the southern Senegal.

[...] (From the presentation on the back cover of the book)