{"id":60403,"date":"2020-03-16T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=60403"},"modified":"2020-03-16T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T18:12:35","slug":"tunica-molesta-burning-tunic","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/tunica-molesta-burning-tunic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunica molesta &#8211; burning tunic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tunica molesta<\/em> was a large tunic, soaked in tar, resin or oil, which was put on by convicts in ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/clothing-in-ancient-rome\/\">clothes<\/a> were then set on fire. The convict was burning alive as part of the <em>ad flammas<\/em> execution.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This type of execution was already mentioned in almost the 12th century tablets from the 5th century BCE. Such a punishment was due to the traitor or arsonist. The convict was first bound, then beaten and set on fire (the terms <em>vivicomburium, damnatio ad flammas, vivus uri, crematio<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>This execution was particularly popular during the Empire, especially from the second century CE; slaves or citizens of the &#8220;lower category&#8221; (so-called <em>humiliores<\/em>) were subject to it. The reason could be arson, desertion, magic or betrayal. Christians have often been the victims. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/publius-cornelius-tacitus\/\">Tacitus<\/a> mentions it, for example, claiming that <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/nero\/\">Nero<\/a> was in 64 CE. make burnt followers of Christ &#8220;human torches&#8221; in their garden (<em>Annals<\/em> XV, 44).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38343,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-60403","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\/60403","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\/60403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=60403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}