Athens, 461BC. A dead man falls from the sky, landing at the feet of a surprised Nicolaos.
It doesn't normally rain corpses. This one is the politician Ephialtes, who only days before had turned Athens into a democracy.
The young statesman Pericles commissions Nicolaos to find the assassin. Nico walks the mean streets of Classical Athens, but what's really on his mind is how to get closer (much closer) to Diotima, an intelligent and annoyingly virgin priestess, and how to shake off his irritating twelve year old brother, Socrates.