Only 3-Word Review on video:

“The authors push hard against our glorification of narratives, of binaries of good/evil, heroes/villains, and of destinies and closures.”

While I won’t pretend that this is the mostly artful or carefully-crafted graphic novel I have read, its topic, breadth, and insights into a nuanced history of the Western myth of democracy is here accessible and needed. Kawa, Papadatos, and DiDonna push hard against our glorification of narratives, of binaries of good/evil, heroes/villains, and of destinies and closures. For this, I am appreciative of their work which still (and ever will) challenge our politics. We are too easily sold a “story of the week” from our media (and from the lips of politicos and their cronies); we too easily sell ourselves. 

Told from the view of a semi-reliable everyman, the story is especially potent, as he attempts to build “his truth” from the many rumors and many slivers of events he touches. 

How historically accurate is it? The authors themselves note importantly that both historians and primary sources of ancient days are contradictory: and it is this uncertainty which empowers their storyline. Not to be read as history, then, but as a point of discussion of its ideas, this is a worthy and significant read!