14 sentences with 'elites'
Example sentences and phrases with the word elites and other words derived from it.
• « Greek was still the language of the state and the language of the elites, the Persian trade language of Aramaic was still used in most lands, and a host of local languages then existed as the vernacular. »
• « Despite their admiration for Greek culture, there was a paradox in that the Roman elites had their own self-proclaimed 'Roman' virtues, virtues they attributed to the Roman past, which were quite distinct from Greek ideas. »
• « The equites constituted the business class of republican Rome that supported the elites while receiving various commercial and mercantile concessions. »
• « Besides the Roman elites, Nero's other major target was the early Christian movement, which he blamed for the burning of Rome and persecuted relentlessly (thousands were killed in the gladiatorial arena, torn to pieces by wild animals). »
• « For almost a century, the emperors appointed their own successors from among the most competent members of the younger generation of Roman elites. Not least because none of them (except the last, with disastrous consequences) had outlived their direct heirs, each emperor would adopt a younger man as his son, thus ensuring his succession. »
• « Borders were maintained (or, as in the case of Trajan, extended), public works and infrastructure were built, and infighting among the elites was kept to a minimum. »
• « Rome has always been a hotbed of religious diversity. While the official Roman gods were worshipped throughout the Empire, Roman elites had no objection to the worship of other deities, and indeed many Romans (both elites and commoners) enthusiastically embraced foreign religions. »
• « Thus, whereas early Christianity had been a religion of the common people, Roman elites flocked to convert after Constantine did so in order to stay in the emperor's good graces. »
• « When Rome fell to Germanic invaders in the mid-fifth century, the decline of organised learning began - there was simply no funding from Roman elites for what had been a robust system of public schools. »
• « Moreover, the western Roman Empire was still dominated by several families of incredibly wealthy Roman elites who undermined the power, authority and financial solvency of the western imperial government by refusing to sacrifice their own prerogatives in the name of a stronger united empire. »
• « There is another factor to consider, one that is more difficult to pin down than the amount of tax revenue or the existence of Constantinople's walls. Simply put, Roman identity - the degree to which social elites, soldiers and possibly ordinary citizens considered themselves 'Roman' and remained loyal to the Empire - seems to have been stronger in the eastern empire than in the west. »
• « In the eastern Roman Empire, the strength of the capital, the success of the armies and the loyalty of the elites to Rome as an idea encouraged the continued strength of Roman identity. Although poor farmers still had little to thank the Roman state for in their daily lives, their farms were intact and local leaders remained Roman, not Gothic or Frankish or Vandal. »
• « Almost without exception, elites strove to actively encourage trade by building and guarding trade routes and founding caravanserais, fortified way stations for merchant travellers. »