Ancient Greece. From Hercules to Perikla

Ancient Greece is rightfully considered a cradle, if not European civilization, then European culture. Art, philosophy, such scientific disciplines as history and geography - when we are talking about them, our mind involuntarily turns to ancient Greece and recalls the loud names of ancient Attica or Sparta.
But how are ours laid down in us from the school bench, knowledge about ancient Greece corresponds to reality? Are there any distortions made in both the former centuries and our contemporaries?
Andrei Savelyev took up an unbearable, but also extremely interesting task: like an archaeologist who removes the hiding ruins of the ancient city of millennia, to free our knowledge about ancient Greece from lies and mistakes, so that this delightful page of human history shoves not only by legends and myths but also its no less exciting - genuine - history