Blackvegetable » 22 Dec 2024, 11:21 am » wrote: ↑ By ancient standards, Rome was amazingly open to new blood and the incorporation of outsiders into its citizenry. At the same time, Roman ideology was fiercely contemptuous of foreign cultures, especially effeminate Greeks and barbarous easterners.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24 ... -the-world