Friday, December 27, 2024
Forgotten
Ronald Syme (1903-1989), Colonial Élites: Rome, Spain and the Americas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 27:
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When men pass judgment on the past, they tend to award the palm to high culture, which has normally (and indeed exclusively) been the product of cities and of minorities. Athens is praised, and Rome—while the slaves and serfs and the voiceless earth-coloured rustics are conveniently forgotten.
