Maybe it’s just coincidence, but the ancient Greeks have been popping up everywhere in my reading lately, as if a frazzled zeitgeist is reaching deep into the past to grasp some rock on which to steady itself. A former classics scholar propelled by personal crisis to try his luck in network television, Stafford rose to glory as the industry’s so-called “philosopher king” with a potent nose for hits. Appropriately, it is hubris that topples him from his throne, forcing him into self-described “exile” on Maui when his latest bet doesn’t pay off.