Review: A Greek king tries to modernize amid a dysfunctional family of gods and monsters in ‘Krapopolis’
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Sep 26, 2023
3 minutes
According to what I’m seeing on the internet, men of the 21st century think a lot about the Roman Empire. I suppose, in that I’ve been receiving a flood of unsolicited pictures of the Colosseum and such in social media feeds, I could be counted accidentally among them, though when it comes to the ancient world I am more Team Greece than Team Rome, more Acropolis than Forum. The Greek gods, intellectual property the Romans plagiarized whole, had cooler names; their graphics had nicer lines; they came up with things like democracy and philosophy and were more
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