Le secret des sept sages, Paperback Book, By: Puard, Bertrand

431 BC The Peloponnesian War which begins sees the two great cities of Hellas clash: the magnificent Athens, proud of its grandiose monuments, led by Pericles the adulated strategist, where we meet Sophocles, Phidias and Socrates; and Sparta where men are, all their lives, in the service of the army. If the wisest seek peace, dark forces prowl, like Cleon, the sworn enemy of Pericles, a vile demagogue who aspires to rule by using the most sordid means. In the midst of this chaos, Drakon, a young spy with snake eyes, assassinates without the slightest qualm, convinced that the Gods are at the origin of each of his actions, while Périctioné, descendant of Solon, one of the seven wise men of Hellas, seeks the secret recorded by his ancestor. A secret that could well change the face of the world. Political intrigues, assassinations, secret societies, dirty tricks, adventures and ambushes, amorous passions, The Secret of the Seven Wise Men takes us with a bang in this founding period of our civilization. From the plagued alleys of Athens to the glorious Olympiads of 428 BC. J. - C., the democrats fight against the tyrants, the knowledge against the ignorance, to write the centuries to come.