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Modern historians of the classical world frequently negotiate Roman hegemony with a salutary angst in case they are condemned for devaluing the culture of the oppressed or not looking hard enough to find it.
-Paula James, "The Language of Dissent" in Experiencing Rome: culture, identity, and power in the Roman Empire (1999): 293.