HIST 215 Lecture 11: HIST 215 W6L11
28 Mar 2017
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Hist 215 (11) wild beast shows, naumachiae, re-enacted battles - lecture outline. Ceres & foxes: early festivals included animal torture as an effort to eliminate vermin, at the games for italian fertility goddess ceres, foxes with burning tails was set loose in circus maximus. In another ritual, dogs were crucifed alive: from 173 bce the annual games for flora included hunts for deer, and hares in the circus. Cock-fighting in greece: the greeks staged fights between small animals and birds as entertainment and martial inspiration. Ii empire & exotica: elephants: as romes empire expanded so did its contact with different animals. 252bce first punic war & caecilius metellus: caeclius captured 140 carthage elephants and siplayed them in a circus elephant in rome and had them fight slaves. Hannibal"s war elephants: most memorable because they traversed the alphs, but most did not make it and romans saw them before, elephant executioners.
