Kind of an interesting point made here—that for the ancient Romans ‘selfhood’ was nothing like the egoistic caricatures given by bros and the modern religious right.

Personhood was inconceivable apart from incorporation into varied forms of communitas

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/opinion/gladiator-movie-rome-masculinity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare