Contents : Introduction : Desperately foreign -- The rediscovery of Crete -- Lost : the Trojan War -- Silver tongue -- Thucydides the moralist -- Socrates and Athens -- Plato and the practical politics -- Diogenes the Cynic -- Etruscheria -- The Etruscans and Rome -- The silent women of Rome -- The Emperor Diocletian -- Manpower and the fall of Rome -- Aulos Kapreilios Timotheos, slave trader -- Christian beginnings : three views of historiography : 1 Allegory and influence; 2. The primitive church; 3. The Jews and the death of Jesus. -- The year one.