ABSTRACT
The most famous barber’s shop in Greek history is undoubtedly the establishmentin the Piraeus to which a foreigner came one day in 413/12 and began talking about the defeat of Athens’ great Sicilian Expedition:
For some stranger, as it seems, landed at the Piraeus and went into a barber’s shop, and started to talk about what had happened as though the Athenians already knew about it. When the barber heard this, before anyone else had found out, he ran up to the city and informed the archons, and set the story going in the Agora.
