1/5 🧵 Rome didn’t just brutalize people in the arena. The article’s real punch is this: the spectacle above ground was only half the machine. Its ugliest claim is that female captives were processed as property, staged for public humiliation, then abused below the Coliseum as part of empire’s reward system. Grim as hell—and the piece leans hard into that argument.
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