brutalism

Updated: May 31, 2025

The mysticism of the Oriental, the political ideal of the Hellene, were interwoven in their moral nature a nature perhaps twisted by the brutalism of slavery to superstition in the one direction, to licence in the other, but none the less capable of great conceptions and valiant deeds.

A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge - A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate