{"id":103602,"date":"2022-03-20T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T07:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=103602"},"modified":"2022-03-20T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T07:34:21","slug":"damnatio-ad-bestias","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/damnatio-ad-bestias\/","title":{"rendered":"Damnatio ad bestias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>, there were a phenomenon of <b>throwing wild <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/animals-and-hunting-in-world-of-romans\/\">animals<\/a> to be eaten<\/b> (<em>damnatio ad bestias<\/em>) convicts. This form of execution was used to entertain the crowd. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For this purpose, various animals were brought to Italy from the most distant corners of the Empire, including: lions, bears, leopards, Caspian tigers, black panthers, and bulls.<\/p>\n<p>In ancient Rome, there were professional trainers of wild animals, who were to properly prepare animals to fight convicts, incite aggression in them and encourage them to eat human flesh. <span class=\"underlined\">Sometimes hunts\/fights were played in the arena where<\/span> the beast was faced by a tunic warrior, armed only with a sword or spears. Often, however, the stripped offender was tied to a column and left defenceless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dalej\"><a title=\"More about torture in ancient Rome\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ustroj\/prawo-rzymskie\/tortury-stosowane-przez-rzymian\/\">More about torture in ancient Rome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40039,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-103602","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/103602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/103602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=103602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}