Animals sometimes were used as agents of execution for captives and criminals – known in Latin as damnatio ad bestias – in which the victim was bound or defenceless, Pearce said. Pearce ...

Convicted prisoners suffered damnatio ad bestias. That the human body, a ‘temple of the Holy Spirit’, should be devoured by brute beasts was particularly abominable to Christians. "What have ...

Animals sometimes were used as agents of execution for captives and criminals — known in Latin as damnatio ad bestias — in which the victim was bound or defenseless, Pearce said. Pearce described what ...

An ancient Roman mosaic depicting a scene of an execution known in Latin as 'damnatio ad bestias' which translates to 'condemnation to beasts.' (Will Dunham/Reuters) Gladiator fights were a ...

Animals sometimes were used as agents of execution for captives and criminals - known in Latin as damnatio ad bestias - in which the victim was bound or defenseless, Pearce said. Pearce described ...

known as ‘damnatio ad bestias’,” they wrote. However, the “nature and scale of person-animal combat in Roman Britain is contested”. “While images survive of such confrontations ...