[1] The book was reissued under the author's real name as a trade paperback and ebook by Phoenix Pick in March 2015.

His cousin, Menedemos, finds himself having a sexual encounter with an important Athenian woman.

"Taking owls to Athens" was a contemporary Greek saying, roughly the equivalent of the modern "selling snow to eskimos" or "carrying coals to Newcastle".

The setting is Athens in 307 BC, sixteen years after the death of Alexander the Great.

[2] As in the other books in the series, persons and places are frequently given their original Greek names (Sokrates, Platon, etc.)