330 BC: it is night of the Silent Dinner, when Athens placates the spirits of the dead. Stephanos and his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle, are drawn into solving the per perplexing abduction case of Anthia, the heiress of a prominent silver merchant who has been snatched from her fome that evening. All that is known is that the abductor and the heiress are on the road to Delphi and its ancient oracle.