Review: At the Getty Villa, the marvelous exhibition rescued from the Palisades fire
What is Thrace? Or, better, where is Thrace? Of all the ancient cultures clustered around the eastern half of the Mediterranean Sea, whether Egypt, Greece, Persia or Rome’s imperial outreaches, Thrace is surely the least well-known. In recent memory, mostly it pops up from “Spartacus,” the 1960 Stanley Kubrick Hollywood epic, and its later television … Read more