CLST 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wild Beasts, Denarius, Tertullian
21 Mar 2017
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A legendary hero, in early rome, who attempted to kill a king . Captured, and threatened with torture, and to show that he wasn"t afraid of torture, he put his right hand in the fire. Attis was a lover of the great goddess, and he was driven mad, and what he did was he. Just like the poisonous tunic hercules was given. Jove"s brother, pluto (god of the underworld), who accompanies the corpses of the gladiators, and drags them out. Mercury, examining the bodies of the dead with his hot iron-- using a hot iron to really see if body was dead, or not. Honestiores senators, equestrians, local magistrates in cities or towns, some military officers . Humiliores people of the lower class; the rest of the population. They could be subject to public execution, despite being freeborn citizen. We used to think that public execution was reserved for non-citizens, but it turns out that so did lower class freedmen.
