Feeling ignored of late?

To the student of Graeco-Roman history, on the other hand, both the Christians and the Barbarians would present themselves as creatures of an alien underworld — the internal and the external proletariat, as he might call them, of that Graeco-Roman (or, to use a better term, Hellenic) Society in its last phase. He would point out that the great masters of Hellenic culture, down to and including Marcus Aurelius, almost ignore their existence.

-- Arnold J Toynbee, A Study of History.
From page 11 in the Introduction