{"id":45474,"date":"2018-11-21T19:37:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/alypius-and-gladiators\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T19:38:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T18:38:27","slug":"alypius-and-gladiators","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/alypius-and-gladiators\/","title":{"rendered":"Alypius and gladiators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Augustine (354-430 CE) says the story of a Alypius, a young Christian who was pushed to saw &#8211; by his companions &#8211; gladiatorial fight. He believed that this type of entertainment is barbaric and contrary to the teachings of Christ.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alypius arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> thanks to his parents, who sent him to law school. The young man supposedly had a sensitive personality and the prospect of watching the bloody gladiatorial struggles at the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/colosseum\/\">Colosseum<\/a> frightened him.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, he agreed, but insisted that he would not open his eyes during the fight. At one point in the arena one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/entertainment-in-ancient-rome\/gladiator-fights\/\">gladiators<\/a> fell to the ground, being wounded. There was a huge noise in the audience that expressed great emotions. Alypius, unable to stop his curiosity, opened his eyes to see what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>From this moment Alypius was a great fan of gladiators&#8217; fights. Saint Augustine complains that his companion&#8217;s soul suffered more than the body of an injured gladiator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45472,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[83],"class_list":["post-45474","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-ancient-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/45474","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\/45474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=45474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}