About the book: 2004 / How did the ancient Greeks communicate with each other and exchange information? How did they find out news and make inquiries? How did you travel? What kind of relations did they have with distant countries? No one tried to consider these and many other questions as a whole. They are, however, very important, since Greece invented the means and media of communication that occupy a leading position in our lives today: rhetoric, theater, political meetings, the Olympic Games... All aspects of life, initially completely different, naturally develop in concentric circles around polis, the habitat of the Greeks: the reader will become acquainted first with communication before the emergence of the polis, then within the polis and, finally, between them and the non-Greek world. Along with issues that are actively discussed in scientific circles, the reader will find in the book subjects that have become part of world culture: the trial of Socrates, the pebbles of Demosthenes, the Library of Alexandria and others.