"More broadly, the film’s morality rejects the domination- and strength-based masculinity of the..."

“More broadly, the film’s morality rejects the domination- and strength-based masculinity of the Greek kings, an echo of contemporary MAGA machismo that often takes Greek and Roman civilization as a warped inspiration, as fundamentally counterproductive. Multiple characters, most notably Menelaus, repeatedly ask who will raise Ithaca’s armies in order to fend off the coming sea people, but of…