Communiquer en Grèce ancienne

How did the Greeks communicate ? How did they keep themselves informed, as we do every day ? How did they travel ? What relations did they have with foreign countries ? These questions, a few of the many dealt with in this book, are fully explored here for the first time. However, these are fundamental questions, since Greece invented communication resources and facilities that are still playing a dominant role in our moder-day life : in debates, the theater, political assemblies, the Olympic Games, etc. These various aspects, which at first glance seem to be dissimilar, fall naturally and concentrically into place around the theme of the city, which was the basis of life in Greece : the reader will alternately learn about the progress of communication before these cities existed, then how it evolved within the cities, between the cities, and finally, between these communities and the non-Greek world. The reader will aso discover in this book, along with questions still being vigorously debated among specialists, stories that were a part of the common culture : the trial of Socrates, the stones of Demosthenes, the Alexandria library, and the Marathon runner, who was not at all the person whom people think he was.