Thus we are coming to understand that the Greco-Roman age was experienced as an erosion of illustrious traditions and as a fragmentation of societies whose loss was keenly felt by all the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean lands. Foreign governance within a people’s home country, and the widespread displacement of people from their native lands, left many traditional social and religious functions unattended. People were left to their own devices, whether at home in an alien environment or living abroad in ghetto-like clusters throughout the empires.
This is going on today in Europe, Canada and the USA.
