AFAIK, universalism was a product of Jewish Christian introgression into the emp

AFAIK, universalism was a product of Jewish Christian introgression into the empire, because it’s absolutely not present in pre-christian European thought. Just the opposite. Pre-Christian European thought is elitist as h***ll. Common folk and barbarians are to be domesticated like all other animals. Hence the possibility of working upward from slave to freeman to citizen.