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> Via Appia was also the site where, in 71 BCE, around 6000 members of Spartacus’s slave army were crucified on the hillsides. Ignorant question: did Romans ki
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
> Via Appia was also the site where, in 71 BCE, around 6000 members of Spartacus’s slave army were crucified on the hillsides.
Ignorant question: did Romans kill people on crosses before the Christian era?
- overkalix 4y agoThe cross became a symbol of Christianity because Jesus was crucified, not the other way around. Moreover, crucifixion is just a pragmatic approach to traditional public executions. Many societies have used trees and walls to hang, kill and display the executed their necks broken, beaten to death, lashed, lynched, asfixiated, left to die of thirst or exposure... the method doesn't really matter, the point is they are there for everyone to see.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoWith the added "benefit" of being an extremely slow and painful way to die.
- dudul 4y agoYes
- powerslacker 4y agoYes, death by crucifixion predates Jesus. The Ancient Romans used it often.
- ch4s3 4y agoIt predates Rome entirely[1]. They either picked it up from Carthage, or the Greeks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion#Pre-Roman_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion#Pre-Roman_states
- bergenty 4y agoYes, Jesus was just another guy that got crucified.