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Does anyone get thrown to the lions in the Colosseum? (That, sadly, was the fate of too many of the original Christians, heretics or not.)
There is no contemporary evidence Christians were ever martyred or killed in the Colosseum.
I see- so obviously Hollywood got it all wrong, like usual...
There is evidence from other amphitheaters (e.g., Carthage / Perpetua and Felicitas) but not reliable, contemporary texts about the Colosseum in Rome. https://sarahemilybond.com/2019/04/27/the-jewish-colosseum-revising-the-memory-of-romes-flavian-amphitheater/
Does anyone get thrown to the lions in the Colosseum? (That, sadly, was the fate of too many of the original Christians, heretics or not.)
There is no contemporary evidence Christians were ever martyred or killed in the Colosseum.
I see- so obviously Hollywood got it all wrong, like usual...
There is evidence from other amphitheaters (e.g., Carthage / Perpetua and Felicitas) but not reliable, contemporary texts about the Colosseum in Rome. https://sarahemilybond.com/2019/04/27/the-jewish-colosseum-revising-the-memory-of-romes-flavian-amphitheater/