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“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather like walking…

— Mary Beard

“In Rome, too, slaves were the sunshine of every day and the nightmare of every night. Slavery stoked the empire’s life and its dread.…

— Eduardo Galeano

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which…

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

They did laugh; they did fall in love. And while they were under incredibly oppressive conditions, they constantly were trying to steal pleasures. When…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

“The explosion of grotesque immorality we associate with imperial Rome—open prostitution and perversion, the bloody gladiatorial combats, and so forth—is best understood as a…

— Rod Bennett

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

— Robert Payne

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in…

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Slaves have to obey their masters.

— Bill Bright

“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a…

— C.G. Jung

“An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced…

— Norman F. Cantor

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when…

— Iain Sinclair