 | Damnatio ad bestias (Latin for "condemnation to beasts") was a form of Roman capital punishment where the condemned person was killed by wild animals... 29 KB (3,241 words) - 16:11, 22 April 2024 |
bestiarii: the first were those condemned to death via the beasts (see damnatio ad bestias) and the second were those who faced them voluntarily, for pay or... 5 KB (532 words) - 01:04, 19 February 2024 |
 | the Christians as a whole". Acts of the Martyrs Christian martyrs Damnatio ad bestias Hellenistic religion Interpretatio graeca Martyrdom of Polycarp New-martyr... 111 KB (14,415 words) - 09:28, 28 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 12 KB (1,192 words) - 07:12, 1 May 2024 |
 | intended as Christian martyrs sentenced to death by beasts (see damnatio ad bestias). The Victory of Faith is one of several paintings by Hare showing... 4 KB (312 words) - 15:49, 4 January 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 41 KB (4,661 words) - 19:55, 22 April 2024 |
 | first martyr in Asia Minor, who was roasted to death in a brazen bull in 92 AD.[better source needed] The device is claimed to have still been in use two... 6 KB (705 words) - 08:54, 23 April 2024 |
 | tradition holds that Saint Bartholomew was flayed before being crucified. In 202 AD, Saint Charalambos was reportedly tortured mercilessly aged 113 during the... 17 KB (2,086 words) - 03:26, 3 March 2024 |
Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 10 KB (1,362 words) - 00:09, 13 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 50 KB (5,946 words) - 05:51, 1 May 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 17 KB (1,863 words) - 05:07, 28 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 52 KB (6,321 words) - 17:02, 27 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 10 KB (1,075 words) - 08:19, 7 December 2023 |
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Description Animals Crushing by elephant. Biting by animals, as in damnatio ad bestias (i.e., the cliché, "being thrown to the lions"), as well as crocodiles... 13 KB (334 words) - 12:46, 18 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 66 KB (7,130 words) - 23:21, 1 May 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 43 KB (5,474 words) - 18:41, 30 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 32 KB (3,167 words) - 01:56, 25 February 2024 |
 | also known as Saint Elmo, was finally executed by disembowelment in about A.D. 303, after he had suffered extreme forms of torture during the persecutions... 26 KB (3,114 words) - 04:03, 9 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 15 KB (1,673 words) - 09:49, 25 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 31 KB (3,681 words) - 13:50, 5 April 2024 |
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 | used to cut leather. The bestiarius was a beast-fighter. See also Damnatio ad bestias. Bustuarius was a "tomb fighter," from bustum, "tomb", a generalised... 25 KB (3,182 words) - 14:17, 22 April 2024 |
 | R. (2004). Monumenta Graeca et Romana: Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004135772... 54 KB (6,670 words) - 17:18, 20 April 2024 |
 | vivere vellet usque ad crucem ... Est tanti vulnus suum premere et patibulo pendere districtum ... Invenitur, qui velit adactus ad illud infelix lignum... 94 KB (10,944 words) - 12:49, 11 April 2024 |
Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 42 KB (4,128 words) - 06:41, 19 April 2024 |
 | capital punishment of Damnatio ad bestias appears similar to records of the defeat of Garamantes recounted by Tacitus and dated at 70 AD. In 1965, Georges... 11 KB (1,220 words) - 01:48, 12 October 2022 |
 | Chinese variation invented during the Qin dynasty. During the Tang dynasty (AD 618–907), truncation of the body at the waist by means of a fodder knife was... 28 KB (3,589 words) - 20:23, 28 March 2024 |
humans. Individual man-eater death tolls include: Animal attack Damnatio ad bestias, an ancient form of execution where condemned prisoners were killed... 57 KB (5,854 words) - 00:56, 29 April 2024 |
 | Gas chamber Beheading Stoning Ancient and Post-classical methods Damnatio ad bestias Blood eagle Blowing from a gun Brazen bull Boiling Breaking wheel... 4 KB (542 words) - 20:21, 18 March 2024 |