Taken as a whole, it's a heady and thought-provoking project that asks us to consider our connection to antiquity. Watching it is like sitting in on a superior college seminar.
It’s something for the ages. This 13-episode examination of ancient Greece’s contribution to the modern world (streaming on VHX) is at once illuminating and confounding, heady but playful.
The relationship to cosmogony is tenuous, but the rapidity of associations is jaw-dropping, a testament to the extraordinary omnivourous mind of this defining film essayist.