This canto shows some really clever, ironic parsing of the state of modern Greece while at the same time giving us a more serious look at what it means for Grecophile’s to look at the way it is now in light of the way we think it was then, a more universal human problem.
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My favorite line: Its all so murky, call it Merkel.
Also, this stanza really hits home because, you know… Byron!
On Byron street, the T-shirts sell
With slogans from Thermopylae.
300 Spartans went to hell
That Greeks (Helots aside) be free.
There’s money, if the mint will make it –
Let’s tell the Troika, come and take it!