Alex and his previously feared classmate Dinu have become close friends since spending a day together in ancient Londinium. And although they both vowed that they would never go on a similar adventure again - they couldn't, because the intellectual author of the first time travel, the whimsical cilliard Solomon Daisy, was put behind bars - but in the course of events, they still find themselves on the other side of a time gate. This time they jump back 1600 years, they have to find the father of Western philosophy, Socrates, in ancient Athens.
Caroline Lawrence's book series, Diary of a Time Traveler, guides the reader to the places of the past in an easy style. This time, Alex and Dinu meet a whole panopticon of Athenian celebrities, and in just twenty-four hours they subvert the strictly laid down rules of time travel, along with everyday life in Athens.
But do they get to know Socrates so that they can report on him in the present? Will they manage to prevent their identity from being revealed? Do they know enough about the customs of the ancient Greeks and can they fit in? And most of all: what happens if the three basic rules are ignored? Everything is revealed in the pages of this breathtakingly captivating novel.