attico-roman

Updated: July 18, 2025

This Attico-Roman comedy, with its prostitution of body and soul usurping the name of love equally immoral in shamelessness and in sentimentality with its offensive and unnatural generosity, with its uniform glorification of a life of debauchery, with its mixture of rustic coarseness and foreign refinement, was one continuous lesson of Romano-Hellenic demoralization, and was felt as such.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

This Attico-Roman comedy, with its prostitution of body and soul usurping the name of love equally immoral in shamelessness and in sentimentality with its offensive and unnatural generosity, with its uniform glorification of a life of debauchery, with its mixture of rustic coarseness and foreign refinement, was one continuous lesson of Romano-Hellenic demoralization, and was felt as such.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)