How did being hacked to death and eaten alive by wild animals feel like in an ancient Roman gladiatorial match /his/?
It would be very painful
>>922973
They were big guys
>>922982
For you.
>>922971
Quite awesome, you should try it.
>>922971
almost completely painless besides a shot of pain as it bites the back of your neck and dislocates your spine a moment later
it is objectively more humane than hanging or lethal injection, nowadays we measure how good something is purely in terms of pain and pleasure, but the romans were stoic patricians and knew there was more to life, dying in the arena allowed you to go out in glory in front of 1000s of people
>>923022
Lethal injections are truly the worst way of execution.
>>923022
>almost completely painless besides a shot of pain as it bites the back of your neck and dislocates your spine a moment later
Not all animals would do that though. I'm fairly certain that bears would simply immobilise you and start eating you without bothering to kill you first.
>>923022
A cheetah bites your throat untill you sufficate
>>923322
Yeah, there was that situation where a russian girl was caught by a bear in the middle of nowhere and she called the police, her mother, the police again, then mother again and was crying on phone for 2 hours as the bear was tearing her up.
Police arrived at the place 4 hours after initial call(as I've said, it was a middle of nowhere), when they've found her she was long since dead.
>he thinks gladiators actually fought to the death
wew
>>924120
>you are lucid enough to make several goddamn phone calls but not enough to jam your fingers in the bear's fucking eyes or something
>>924307
>I have never considered the size of a bear and the fact that I would be too busy panicking the only times its eyes came close enough to jab at
(When it's eating me)
>>922971
This is most certainly a history meme but I always wondered how this started and if there was any credence to it
>>924309
For two hours?
>>924313
Yeah, for two hours.
Odds are it was a mobile phone so there's every possibility she called her mother and the mother connected the police, she dropped the phone, and the next two hours was audio gore porn.
>>924348
I want to listen that call.
Fun fact: gladiators literally fed themselves fat so that blows wouldn't hurt them as much and to makethe battles more entertaining because more blood would be spilled and wounds would be more noticeable, without anyone actually having to get killed.
Actual gladiators hardly ever died because they were expensive as fuck. They'd usually be pitted against members of their own gladiatorial school so it's safe to assume some of the fights were choreographed: they'd beat each other bloody and maybe one would get disarmed then they'd call it a day.
Gladiator fights were more about the spectacle of the fight than actual death, if they were actually trying to kill each other the fights would be short and boring. Prisoners and slaves would be the ones to actually die and get fucked up by the gladiators, executioners, and animals.
What most people don't understand is that coliseums had dozens of different events centered around violence and debauchery- gladiator fights (although probably the main event) being only one of them.
Gladiators virtually always beat the animals. A better question would be "How did being hacked to death and eaten alive by wild animals feel like to a Christian martyr?"
Depends, are you Christian?
Most of the animals in the arena would be awfully malnourished. The Games with them tended to be very lack luster as Lions just wandered about aimlessly.
