11 Horrific, And Thankfully Historical, Ways In Which Humans Killed Each Other

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2. The Romans executed their criminals in elaborate rituals, usually involving the prisoners re-enacting a myth that resulted in gruesome and humiliating deaths.

Though Romans found the idea of human sacrifice abhorrent and banned it everywhere within their kingdom, they were still partial to gory entertainment. There are instances of criminals being burnt alive in imitation of Hercules, or chained up and having their entrails torn out like in the story of Prometheus, and a female prisoner being forced to have sex with a bull like Pasiphae (the mother of the Minotaur, who was cursed to develop ~feelings~ for a bull). If the prisoner survived the ordeal, she'd have been killed after.

3. The ancient Greeks also had their fair share of bull-themed, horrific executions.

TheBrazen Bull was a system in which the victim was placed inside a bronze bull. The sculpture would then be heated, roasting the person inside – and thanks to an acoustic apparatus, their screams would come out sounding like the cries of a bull.

The Brazen Bull was a system in which the victim was placed inside a bronze bull. The sculpture would then be heated, roasting the person inside – and thanks to an acoustic apparatus, their screams would come out sounding like the cries of a bull.

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