The book "The Acropolis through its Museum" is not just a simple museum guide. By presenting the artworks exhibited in the museum, it attempts to reconstruct the history of the sacred rock as part of the cultural and broader historical context of ancient Athens.

The book follows the visitor's path through the museum, allowing one to study and read about the artifacts displayed before them. However, it is also written in such a way that through independent study, the reader has the opportunity to delve deeper into the topics and understand the prerequisites - political, social, economic, ideological, artistic, and technological - that led to the unique works of the Acropolis.

The book contains a wealth of illustration with photographs as well as many drawings and representations, which enable the understanding of the fragmentary surviving works, each within its context.

Additionally, the book answers many of the questions that arise for readers as well as for all the astute lovers of antiquity, such as how large ancient Athens was and what its population was, what the beasts in the grand archaic pediments signified, what the statues of the Korai represented, why the Erechtheion became so complex and what role the Caryatids played, why the temple of Athena Nike was built in the Ionic style, what led Pericles and his advisers to choose the specific building program, how the major works were financed, why they decided to place an Ionic frieze on the Doric Parthenon, what political messages they sent to Sparta through the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon, among others.