While hierarchy itself has been in operation among Mankind since the first time one Man dominated another, the precepts of it weren’t codified until the rise of the Greek and Roman empires.

Their true and mythological stories (which often intermingled) define hierarchical concepts of masculinity, domination and submission, and the importance of these roles in sustaining/advancing human life.

Historian Luca Mitchell has been doing a series on the famous figures of Greek and Roman history and mythology, with a bent toward the Alpha heroes and the inferior males they loved.

You can watch more of his series on his Facebook page! Interesting stuff!