A review by claudiacatanho
Democracy by Annie Di Donna, Alecos Papadatos, Αβραάμ Κάουα

4.0

The graphic novel “Democracy” by Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa and Annie Di Donna (swipe to see the cover), tells a violent, romantic historical fiction about a boy called Leander who lives in a time of tyrants and sees his family caught up in the violence of the times. Along the way he meets the Goddess Athena who tells him to keep painting vases (which he loves to do), and Cleisthenes, who gives him a lesson in democratic principles. Of course this graphic novel does not deeply elaborate what happened during the golden age of ancient greece, but it gives you an overall perspective of life during tyranny and after. All in all, it was a really good and entertaining book to read in an afternoon.