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This is an essay on relevance of classics and its changes over the ages. The authors use a temple of Apollo at Bassae in Greece for their discussion. The marble frieze of this temple were discovered in 1811 by Carl Haller and Charles Cockerell. The frieze was bought at auction by the British Museum in 1815 where it is now on permanent display. Finding of the temple, located in a remote mountainous region of Greek Arcadia, was facilitated by an ancient text of a Greek traveller and geographer Pausanias in his "Description of Greece" written in the second century AC. The temple itself was constructed around 400 BC and Pausanias described her remains in his travels more than 500 years later. The book is one of the series of brief insights covering a wide range of subjects.