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Public Executions In The Arena
Naraku
Draconarius
Interesting question. The red head on the left would seem the obvious choice. However, the one on the right is looking to her right - off camera - and seems equally if not more terrified. She may have noticed the approach of a lioness on her left. If that is the case, the females are more aggressive than the males So, I would say the one on the right is going to be attacked first. I bet five sesterstii on her.
I vote that this motto goes somewhere prominent and visible on the site.
Nulla pulchritudo nisi cruciato
MICHELE PATRI
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Good motto!
AlexArts
Soul of Cinder
SJ's art...
MICHELE PATRI
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SLAVE ZEINAH CRUCIFIED
In 104 BC the Consul Gaius Marius was recruiting for his eventually successful war against the Cimbri in Cisalpine Gaul. He requested support from King Nicomedes III of Bithynia near the Roman province of Asia. Additional troops from Rome's Italian Allies were not supplied due to the claim that contracted Roman tax collectors had enslaved Italians unable to pay their debts. Marius decreed that any allied/friendly Italian should be released if they were in Roman slavery.
Around 800 Italian slaves were released from Sicily, frustrating many non-Italians who thought they would be released as well, and many of these abandoned their masters, incorrectly believing themselves to have been freed. A rebellion broke out when they were ordered back to servitude by the Governor. A slave by the name of Salvius started fighting for his rights and was elected leader of this rebellion. He assumed the name Tryphon, from Diodotus Tryphon, a Seleucid ruler. His wife Zeinah, a Syrian slave, joined his army with many other young women.
Salvius amassed an army containing thousands of trained and equipped slaves, including 2,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry, and gave great troubles to Rome’s army. The Roman consul Manius Aquillius quelled the revolt only after great effort. Finally, the slave army was defeated. Salvius died in battle and Zeinah was captured. She was crucified inside the arena of Syracuse in 100 BC.
The great Rebellion of 104 BC. And since this time ended the big rebellions equal.
MICHELE PATRI
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Arena whipping. Artist: Zerosen
MICHELE PATRI
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Crucifixion art. Artist: MPalmeri
MICHELE PATRI
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ST. MARINA OF ANTIOCH TIED TO A CROSS AND WHIPPED
The Holy Great Martyr Marina was born in Asia Minor, in the city of Antioch of Pisidia (southern Asia Minor), into the family of a pagan priest. In infancy, she lost her mother, and her father gave her into the care of a nursemaid, who raised Marina in the Orthodox Faith. Upon learning that his daughter had become a Christian, her father disowned her. Marina was arrested and thrown in prison.
Governor Olymbrios was charmed when he saw the beautiful girl, and tried to persuade her to renounce the Christian Faith and become his wife. But Marina refused his offers. The governor became angry and ordered that Marina be tortured. She was fiercely beaten, then fastened to a cross and her body whipped and then torn with hooks. The governor hid his face, unable to witness her suffering. However, Marina refused to yield. Thrown again into prison, an angel appeared and healed her wounds. The next day, she was stripped and tied to a cross, then burned. Barely alive, she prayed: “Lord, You have granted me to go through fire for Your Name, grant me also to go through the water of holy Baptism.” She was finally beheaded.
The Holy Great Martyr Marina was born in Asia Minor, in the city of Antioch of Pisidia (southern Asia Minor), into the family of a pagan priest. In infancy, she lost her mother, and her father gave her into the care of a nursemaid, who raised Marina in the Orthodox Faith. Upon learning that his daughter had become a Christian, her father disowned her. Marina was arrested and thrown in prison.
Governor Olymbrios was charmed when he saw the beautiful girl, and tried to persuade her to renounce the Christian Faith and become his wife. But Marina refused his offers. The governor became angry and ordered that Marina be tortured. She was fiercely beaten, then fastened to a cross and her body whipped and then torn with hooks. The governor hid his face, unable to witness her suffering. However, Marina refused to yield. Thrown again into prison, an angel appeared and healed her wounds. The next day, she was stripped and tied to a cross, then burned. Barely alive, she prayed: “Lord, You have granted me to go through fire for Your Name, grant me also to go through the water of holy Baptism.” She was finally beheaded.
MICHELE PATRI
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Crucifixion art by Quoom:
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I love Mpalmeri
jacksjg89
PROCRASTINATOR
I like to think that god takes joy keeping his worshippers alive so that they can suffer more for him. He's kinda a perv like us in those regards.
MICHELE PATRI
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I like to think that God heals his worshippers' wounds to save them from part of the pain.
MICHELE PATRI
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Eulalia again!
SAINT EULALIA OF MERIDA NAILED TO AN X-CROSS AND TORTURED WITH IRON HOOKS
Eulalia was a devout very young Christian virgin, whose mother sequestered her in the countryside in AD 304 because all citizens were required to avow faith in the Roman gods. Eulalia ran away to the law court of the governor Dacian at Emerita, professed herself a Christian, insulted the pagan gods and emperor Maximian, and challenged the authorities to martyr her. The judge’s attempts at flattery and bribery failed. According to the Spanish-Roman poet Prudentius of the fifth century, who devoted book 3 of his Peristephanon (“About martyrs”) to Eulalia, she said:
Isis Apollo Venus nihil est,
Maximianus et ipse nihil:
illa nihil, quia facta manu;
hic, manuum quia facta colit
(Isis, Apollo and Venus are naught,
Nor is Maximian anything more;
Nothing are they, for by hand they were wrought,
He, for of hands he the work doth adore)
She was then stripped by the soldiers, tied to a x-shaped cross, scourged, tortured with hooks and torches, and then burnt, suffocating from smoke inhalation. She taunted her torturers all the while, and as she expired a dove flew out of her mouth. This frightened away the soldiers and allowed a miraculous snow to cover her nakedness, its whiteness indicating her sainthood. For this reason she is regarded among Catholic school children and teachers alike as the patron saint of snow (inclement weather) days.
SAINT EULALIA OF MERIDA NAILED TO AN X-CROSS AND TORTURED WITH IRON HOOKS
Eulalia was a devout very young Christian virgin, whose mother sequestered her in the countryside in AD 304 because all citizens were required to avow faith in the Roman gods. Eulalia ran away to the law court of the governor Dacian at Emerita, professed herself a Christian, insulted the pagan gods and emperor Maximian, and challenged the authorities to martyr her. The judge’s attempts at flattery and bribery failed. According to the Spanish-Roman poet Prudentius of the fifth century, who devoted book 3 of his Peristephanon (“About martyrs”) to Eulalia, she said:
Isis Apollo Venus nihil est,
Maximianus et ipse nihil:
illa nihil, quia facta manu;
hic, manuum quia facta colit
(Isis, Apollo and Venus are naught,
Nor is Maximian anything more;
Nothing are they, for by hand they were wrought,
He, for of hands he the work doth adore)
She was then stripped by the soldiers, tied to a x-shaped cross, scourged, tortured with hooks and torches, and then burnt, suffocating from smoke inhalation. She taunted her torturers all the while, and as she expired a dove flew out of her mouth. This frightened away the soldiers and allowed a miraculous snow to cover her nakedness, its whiteness indicating her sainthood. For this reason she is regarded among Catholic school children and teachers alike as the patron saint of snow (inclement weather) days.
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That girl just can't get a break!
AlexArts
Soul of Cinder
How unaesthetic?
As a kind post, I interprete that. Thank you!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Judging from the many posts by Michele, the torture with iron hooks seems to have been a very widespread practice against (female?) martyrs. It looks like a more cruel way of scourging.