The braggart soldier returns: Trump on the grand stage of ego
Donald Trump is framed as a modern Pyrgopolynices, a braggart whose performative narcissism has moved from farce to real power, with consequences still unfolding, writesWilliam J Dominik.
THE ANCIENT WORLD has given us an endless gallery of vainglorious buffoons, but none is as entertaining or as instructive asPyrgopolynicesin The Braggart Soldier (Latin:Miles Gloriosus) by the Roman playwrightPlautus, active in