-Na krayu Oykumeny- .Drevnyaya Gretsiya, yeshche ne dostigshaya svoyego rastsveta, yeshche ne vystroivshaya prekrasneyshiye v mire dvortsy i khramy, yeshche ne sozdavshaya svoi bessmertnyye proizvedeniya iskusstva. .Imenno zdes' nachinayetsya uvlekatel'naya istoriya priklyucheniy yunogo skul'ptora Pandiona, kotorogo sud'ba zanosit to na tainstvennyy Krit, to v pyshnyy i surovyy Yegipet, to na palubu finikiyskogo korablya, to v dzhungli Afriki, lezhashchiye na samom krayu Oykumeny. .Nestareyushchaya povest' Yefremova, lyubimaya mnogimi pokoleniyami chitateley, - povest' o drevnikh vremenakh, otvage, vernoy lyubvi i druzhbe! .
