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For many centuries, the achievements of Ancient Greece have delighted the entire enlightened world. Sung by the best poets, Hellas is the progenitor of modern architecture, poetry, dramaturgy, philosophy, and medicine. Her great heritage gave rise to the best achievements of Ancient Rome and Byzantium. Any branch of knowledge originates in the country of gods and heroes. It was on the lands of the Balkan Peninsula and the numerous islands of the Mediterranean that the foundations of the sciences that flourish in our time were laid. Athenian democracy served as a model for the modern European form of government. The main philosophical ideas about the world were developed by the efforts of the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. In the next book of the series, the reader will get acquainted with the hundred most prominent people of Ancient Greece.