In order to answer this, you need to define what you mean by “depraved”…and what you mean by “most of Ancient Europe”…as I've told students many times, historians love definitions. read more
Because they’re gone and Europe is now dominated by a moral code that was intended in part to be everything the Romans were not. This new moral code also spent its early days painting the ancient world as a churning mass of hedonistic barbarians. read more