Quotes About Roman elite

It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth. The itinerant preacher wandering from village to village clamoring about the end of the world, a band of ragged followers trailing behind, was a common sight in Jesus's time—so common, in fact, that it had become a kind of caricature among the Roman elite.

Most people at the time Jesus lived, apart from the upper-crust Roman elite

Only a few got to indulge in the pretence that they were part of a Roman elite.