Public Executions In The Arena

[lornaz]

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CHRISTIANA CRUCIFIED AND HUMILIATED BY THE PAGAN IBERI

In the fourth century a Christian maiden was kidnapped and enslaved by the pagan Iberi around the Caspian and Black Sea; her real name was maybe Nina, but she was called Christiana because she refused to give up her faith. Having performed miracles by praying, Christiana converted members of the Iberi royal family. The king decided tha she had to die, so she ordered to crucify the woman in an extrelmely humiating position, with her legs spread. Once crucified, she received further tortures and was finally killed with a spear.

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It looks impressive, but I'm not convinced that it is physically possible to get someone into that shape. The girl being crucified like that would need to have been made out of soft and very pliable rubber, or at the very least would need to have had the physique of a cat burglar.

 

[AlexArts]

I'm not convinced that it is physically possible to get someone into that shape.

Nice try... But this forum is not for discussion

 

[lornaz]

Nice try... But this forum is not for discussion

What on earth do you mean by that? I don't understand!! Can someone please explain??

 

[phlebas]

It looks impressive, but I'm not convinced that it is physically possible to get someone into that shape. The girl being crucified like that would need to have been made out of soft and very pliable rubber, or at the very least would need to have had the physique of a cat burglar.

I don't know, it's not that far fetched, or that far from this pose, really.



It doesn't have to be comfortable, or even survivable!

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

For Apostate:
I've found it!

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA ON THE WHEEL

According to her hagiography, Catherine was both a princess and a noted scholar, who became a Christian around the age of fourteen, converted hundreds of people to Christianity, and was martyred around the age of 18.
When the persecutions began under Maxentius, she went to the emperor and rebuked him for his cruelty. The emperor summoned fifty of the best pagan philosophers and orators to dispute with her, hoping that they would refute her pro-Christian arguments, but Catherine won the debate. Several of her adversaries, conquered by her eloquence, declared themselves Christians and were at once put to death.
Catherine was then scourged and imprisoned, during which time over 200 people came to see her, including Maxentius' wife, Valeria Maximilla; all converted to Christianity and were subsequently martyred. Upon the failure of Maxentius to make Catherine yield by way of torture, he tried to win the beautiful and wise princess over by proposing marriage. The saint refused, declaring that her spouse was Jesus Christ, to whom she had consecrated her virginity. The furious emperor condemned Catherine to death on wooden wheel, but, after a while, it shattered. Maxentius finally had her beheaded.

 

[Eulalia]

There's quite a cull of lassies at this season of the year,
the climax of the virgin martyring season -

Catherine 25th November
Bibiana 2nd December
Barbara 4th
Leontiva & companions 6th
Leocadia and Valeria both 9th
Eulalia of Merida 10th
Lucia 13th
Albina 16th
Meuris & Thea 19th

 

[kursdata]

Accidentally found this cute old drawing, never seen before. Description says "Naked gladiator Sepeos and prostitute Filiola crucified at a Roman circus. Colour printed illustration by Auguste Leroux from Felicien Champsaur's novel L'Orgie Latine (Roman Orgy), Fasquelle, Paris, 1903."

 

[Jollyrei]

Accidentally found this cute old drawing, never seen before. Description says "Naked gladiator Sepeos and prostitute Filiola crucified at a Roman circus. Colour printed illustration by Auguste Leroux from Felicien Champsaur's novel L'Orgie Latine (Roman Orgy), Fasquelle, Paris, 1903."

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Nice find. That is a very robust cross indeed.

 

[kursdata]

From the same series.
#1: "Naked Christians sacrificed to the lions in a Roman circus."
#2: "Naked Filiola fed to the dogs during a Roman circus."

This must be a good book, kind of Quo Vadis exploitation.

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

SLAVE THEUDELINDA CRUCIFIED IN NUCERIA'S ARENA

In 73 BC, a group of some 200 gladiators in the Capuan school owned by Lentulus Batiatus plotted an escape. When their plot was betrayed, a force of about 70 men seized kitchen implement ("choppers and spits"), fought their way free from the school, and seized several wagons of gladiatorial weapons and armor.
Once free, the escaped gladiators chose leaders from their number, selecting two Gallic slaves—Crixus and Oenomaus—and Spartacus, who was said either to be a Thracian auxiliary from the Roman legions later condemned to slavery, or a captive taken by the legions.
Theudelinda, a Germanic slave, was Oenomaus’ lover. After the beginning of the revolt, she escaped from her lord’s house and reached her lover.
The escaped slaves were able to defeat a small force of troops sent after them from Capua, and equip themselves with captured military equipment as well as their gladiatorial weapons. This band of escaped gladiators plundered the region surrounding Capua, recruited many other slaves into their ranks, and eventually retired to a more defensible position on Mount Vesuvius.
A Roman praetor, Gaius Claudius Glaber, gathered a force of 3,000 men. Glaber's forces besieged the slaves on Mount Vesuvius, blocking the only known way down the mountain. With the slaves thus contained, Glaber was content to wait until starvation forced the slaves to surrender.
In response to Glaber's siege, Spartacus' men made ropes and ladders from vines and trees growing on the slopes of Vesuvius and used them to rappel down the cliffs on the side of the mountain opposite Glaber's forces. They moved around the base of Vesuvius, outflanked the army, and annihilated Glaber's men.
Then the slaves moved quickly toward Metapontum, but unfortunately. While she was looking for some food, Theudelinda was captured by some survived Roman soldiers and brought to the town of Nuceria. She was condemned as a fugitive slave and was first scourged, then crucified in the arena and finally killed with a spear.

 

[Eulalia]

From the same series.
#1: "Naked Christians sacrificed to the lions in a Roman circus."
#2: "Naked Filiola fed to the dogs during a Roman circus."

This must be a good book, kind of Quo Vadis exploitation.

It came out 7 years after Quo Vadis, so you may well be right, though this was the heyday of 'decadent' fiction,
and (if the fake news of Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny and Juvenal is to be believed, which it probably isn't)
you couldn't get much decadenter than this lady:



Non, non, pas notre Crucified Amazon!

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

MASS EXECUTIONS OF CHRISTIANS IN BITHINIA UNDER THE EMPEROR TRAJAN

Between 109 and 111, Pliny the Younger was sent by the emperor Trajan (r. 98-117) to the province of Bithynia (in Anatolia) as governor, and their correspondence is considered a valuable historical source. In one of his letters (Letter 10.96), Pliny reports on his actions with regard to some people who had been denounced as Christians, some of them anonymously: those that persisted in confessing that they were Christians he had executed or, if Roman citizens, sent to Rome; those who denied that they were Christians he subjected to the test of invoking the gods, offering them incense and a libation in the presence of an image of the emperor, and cursing Christ. Some who admitted that they had formerly been Christians but proved, by passing the test, that they were such no longer declared that Christians did not commit the crimes attributed to them, a declaration confirmed under torture by two slave women who were called deaconesses. Pliny therefore asked the emperor whether ceasing to be a Christian was enough to secure pardon for having been one, and whether punishment was merited just for being a Christian ("the name itself") or only for the crimes associated with the name. Trajan responded that the problem could only be dealt with case by case. The authorities were not to seek Christians out, but people who were denounced and found guilty were to be punished unless, by worshipping the Roman gods, they proved they were not Christians (having denied Christ) and so obtained pardon. Anonymous denunciations were to be ignored. Those who were proved to be Christians were condemned to a swift death penalty if they were Roman Citizens. Slaves and servants were condemned to be given to wild beasts or crucified.

 

[Barbaria1]

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MASS EXECUTIONS OF CHRISTIANS IN BITHINIA UNDER THE EMPEROR TRAJAN

Between 109 and 111, Pliny the Younger was sent by the emperor Trajan (r. 98-117) to the province of Bithynia (in Anatolia) as governor, and their correspondence is considered a valuable historical source. In one of his letters (Letter 10.96), Pliny reports on his actions with regard to some people who had been denounced as Christians, some of them anonymously: those that persisted in confessing that they were Christians he had executed or, if Roman citizens, sent to Rome; those who denied that they were Christians he subjected to the test of invoking the gods, offering them incense and a libation in the presence of an image of the emperor, and cursing Christ. Some who admitted that they had formerly been Christians but proved, by passing the test, that they were such no longer declared that Christians did not commit the crimes attributed to them, a declaration confirmed under torture by two slave women who were called deaconesses. Pliny therefore asked the emperor whether ceasing to be a Christian was enough to secure pardon for having been one, and whether punishment was merited just for being a Christian ("the name itself") or only for the crimes associated with the name. Trajan responded that the problem could only be dealt with case by case. The authorities were not to seek Christians out, but people who were denounced and found guilty were to be punished unless, by worshipping the Roman gods, they proved they were not Christians (having denied Christ) and so obtained pardon. Anonymous denunciations were to be ignored. Those who were proved to be Christians were condemned to a swift death penalty if they were Roman Citizens. Slaves and servants were condemned to be given to wild beasts or crucified.

Ah, now you have hit on one of my favorite themes, mass crucifixions! Pity the slaves and servants!

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

SLAVE GRATIDIA CRUCIFIED FOR KILLING ANOTHER SLAVE

Gratidia was a young slave who served in the domus of the rich merchant Lucius Andronicus in Larinum, Italy. Andronicus’ wife, Fulvia Domitilla, had a passionate relationship with Galenus, a slave who worked as a gardener. Many times Galenus had tried to rape Gratidia, but she had always been able to avoid sexual violence. One day, trying to defend herself, she stabbed Galenus in his throat an killed him.
Fulvia Domitilla was upset and asked her husband to have the girl punished with a painful death.
A few days later the unfortunate girl was crucified in the arena with many other criminals. Fulvia was a spectator of the execution and went home only after Gratidia had painfully expired.

 

[Barbaria1]

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SLAVE GRATIDIA CRUCIFIED FOR KILLING ANOTHER SLAVE

Gratidia was a young slave who served in the domus of the rich merchant Lucius Andronicus in Larinum, Italy. Andronicus’ wife, Fulvia Domitilla, had a passionate relationship with Galenus, a slave who worked as a gardener. Many times Galenus had tried to rape Gratidia, but she had always been able to avoid sexual violence. One day, trying to defend herself, she stabbed Galenus in his throat an killed him.
Fulvia Domitilla was upset and asked her husband to have the girl punished with a painful death.
A few days later the unfortunate girl was crucified in the arena with many other criminals. Fulvia was a spectator of the execution and went home only after Gratidia had painfully expired.

Well, at least Galenus got what was coming to him.

 

[Loxuru]

MASS EXECUTIONS OF CHRISTIANS IN BITHINIA UNDER THE EMPEROR TRAJAN

Nice pic!

 

[impaler49152]

While the dead body of execution candidate #6 gets removed from the main stage, the large video wall in the stadium announces the execution number 7.

 

[rb1956]

While the dead body of execution candidate #6 gets removed from the main stage, the large video wall in the stadium announces the execution number 7.

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very nice indeed !!!

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

SLAVE LUCRETIA CRUCIFIED AND TORTURED TO DEATH IN THE ARENA

Lucretia was a young slave who served in the house of Priscilla, an old woman who had no sons or daughters, in the city of Syracuse (Sicily). Priscilla was a gentle woman and treated her slaves kindly.
One day Lucretia found Priscilla dead in her bed. This meant that all her slaves had to be sold in the marketplace. Lucretia did not want to be sold, so she escaped from town and find a refuge in a cave in the countryside. There she met a group of escaped slaved who survived by stealing and killing. She joined the robbers and survived that way for two years.
Finally, the gang was found by a group of Roman soldiers. Most of the fugitive slaves were killed, but some of them fled. Lucretia was captured and led back to Syracuse, where the judge condemned her to a painful death as a fugitive slave, robber and killer.
Four days later Lucretia was brought to the circus, nailed to a cross and atrociously tortured for more than an hour. She was scourged, her fingers were cut away, many nails were planted in her body and finally she was slowly flayed with iron hooks.