During the first part of my Western Civilization course, I looked for connections between the protagonists of Sophocles’ “Antigone,” Virgil’s “Aeneid” and the HBO series “The Wire.”
“McNulty is just one of hundreds of essential characters in the show, a single political animal within a vast American polis. The epic scope of the show prompts viewers to pay as much if not more attention to the polis, the show’s social and political structures, as the individual inhabitants of Baltimore. Just as Venus and Juno affect the events surrounding Aeneas, the city’s government, police department and criminal organizations bear down on McNulty.”
Austin Fisher 