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Which emperor started the practice of feeding the christians to the lions?
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∙ 12y ago
Christian tradition says that Emperor Nero had large numbers of Christians thrown to the lions, but historians can find no evidence for this claim.
Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) says the Christian writers of the fourth or fifth centuries ascribed to the emperors of Rome the same degree of implacable and unrelenting zeal which filled their own breasts against the heretics or pagans of their own times. Thus, the Christians were justifying their own brutality by the myth of earlier pagan brutality.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoNo Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
No Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
No Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
No Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
No Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
No Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
No Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
No Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
No Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
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∙ 12y agoNo Roman emperor started the practice of feeding Christians or anyone else to the lions. Being sentenced "to the beasts" was a legitimate form of capital punishment in ancient Rome which was reserved for foreigners, slaves, or occasionally citizens who had lost their rights. The sentence was handed out by the praetors. However this is not to say that the praetors were not prodded to issue the death sentence by higher ups.
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