Do you mean Semitic child-sacrificing Carthaginians and those related to them? Those that somehow needed official laws to figure out that it was wrong to sacrifice children? The Semitic child-sacrificing Carthaginians that the Pagan, pre-Christian Romans found so horrifyingly evil that they decided to lay Carthage completely to waste? "Carthago delenda est"?
The later Roman empire was very, very different from the earlier Roman republic, including in regards to infiltration. As far as I know, the original "fights" in arenas and the like did not feature any fights to the death, but instead genuine LARPing to showcase previous battles and both entertain and educate, without people actually dying.
OH YOU BLOODY GENIUS, holy shit, you are right. Those fuckin caananite moloch worshippers and their symbology. Oh those ASS HOLES!!!
Do you mean Semitic child-sacrificing Carthaginians and those related to them? Those that somehow needed official laws to figure out that it was wrong to sacrifice children? The Semitic child-sacrificing Carthaginians that the Pagan, pre-Christian Romans found so horrifyingly evil that they decided to lay Carthage completely to waste? "Carthago delenda est"?
Loved reading chesterton describe the pagan romans killing the carthaginians as the wests first great holy war
This is why Romans fed christians to the lions. The first "christian" refugees, that came to rome were just semetic tribes who rebranded.
The later Roman empire was very, very different from the earlier Roman republic, including in regards to infiltration. As far as I know, the original "fights" in arenas and the like did not feature any fights to the death, but instead genuine LARPing to showcase previous battles and both entertain and educate, without people actually dying.
We still enjoy the LARPs to this very day, the arena just moved to 4chan
Yup. Gladiators were basically glorified Wrestling matches. Still had the arenas used for public executions and such however.