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I didn’t realize that bull fighting happened in Italy, I thought it was an unfortunate Spanish thing
by hertzrat 6y ago
I didn’t realize that bull fighting happened in Italy, I thought it was an unfortunate Spanish thing
- lou1306 6y agoTauromachy (bullfighting) is a very ancient ritual: the spanish one is just one of its most recent formalisation. Venationes (hunting games) were common practice in Rome. The picture of gladiators fighting lions in the Colosseum is iconic, but bulls were also used.
- usrusr 6y agoI wonder wether the whole Matador thing is a direct-line descendant leftover of the games in Roman time Iberian arenas or if there have been discontinuities and reinventions along the way.
- riffraff 6y agoIt's also older than Rome, there are plenty of Minoan era representations of bullfighting (leaping, but that's still a tradition in France and Spain, too). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping
- orange_tee 6y agoI think he means Roman era amphitheatres in Spain.