3/5 🧵 It then moves to the arena itself. Public executions are described as “fatal charades” — mythological reenactments where prisoners died for entertainment. The article uses Martial’s writings to argue that Rome turned legend into staged murder: people cast into roles from myth, then mutilated or killed in front of a crowd that treated atrocity like lunch theater. Civilized empire, barbaric core. Same old story.
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