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The ancients were awful to each other - to their women, to their slaves.
Carl Sagan lays this out - folks, the only people to say good things of the ancient world were the slaveholders of later generations.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6518559-a-disdain-for-the-practical-swept-the-ancient-world-plato