The ruling class has all the power, the plebeians are rioting in the street, and a brooding hero is about to swoop in to save the day.(Maybe.) Nope,
it's
not Dark Knight Rises: it's
Shakespeare's Coriolanus, set in 491 B.C.E., when early Republican Rome has just transitioned from being ruled by a monarch to a government run by elected officials.With the last tyrant king (that would be Tarquin) tossed out on his rear end, there's a power vacuum and everyone is scrambling for, well, power.199E
Conolanus doesn'ticactually give sus definitive: answers.