The civilizations of the ancient Greeks and Romans were, like all other civilisations, marked by paganisms, barbarism, immoralities and hypocrisies on a large and systemic scale. Græco-Roman Civilization of the Roman Empire was in a ferment in the time of Christ, with many being alienated and turning to the Jewish or Mosaic Covenant - the Proselytes. Greek Civilisation itself had reached a point where it was forbidden to narrate the impious and immoral legends of the Greek "gods" in polite company.