(. . .) The purpose of the book is to familiarise the readers with classical art, both architecture and sculpture, so that they visit the Acropolis and also the British Museum, where much of the sculpture of the great temple is today, they can comprehend and appreciate it. In the initial phase difficulties were encountered in simplifying descriptions and references. (. . .) In order to cope with these difficulties, a mythical figure was used as narrator, Iris herself. The conventional sense of time and place was thus bypassed and the book was divided into four parts with an Epimetron. (. . .)

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