Colosseum - Executions 'Ad Bestias'

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Descripcion foto: During lunch intervals, executions 'ad bestias' would be staged. Those condemned to death would be sent into the arena, naked and unarmed, to face the beasts of death which would tear them to pieces. The Colosseum is generally regarded by Christians as a site of the martyrdom of large numbers of believers during the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. Other types of execution performed in the Colosseum were ad gladium (death by sword), crucifixion, trampled to death (usually by elephants), ad flammas (burnt to death), self-castration, mock battles (sometimes involving hundreds of people), mythological re-enactments, between others.

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Copyright: Jean-Léon Gérôme, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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