Talk:Damnatio ad bestias

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A fact from Damnatio ad bestias appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 February 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that according to Roman law, counterfeiters were to be thrown to wild beasts?

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Nero's torches[edit]

Why is Henryk Siemiradzki's Pochodnie Nerona (Świeczniki chrześcijaństwa) (in English: Nero's Torches (Leading Light of Christianity)) included in this article with the caption "Nero watching devouring of Christians"? There are no animals in this image, and no devouring. If you actually look at the picture, there are Christians tied to the tops of poles being lit on fire (hence torches). The only thing Nero is watching is the Christians being devoured... by flames. --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû _(blah?) 02:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ENGVAR[edit]

Is the article using British English or American English? At the moment it seems to use both. Let's pick one, then make it consistent. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 17:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I intended to use US spelling when started (partly translated) the article. Materialscientist (talk) 04:35, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What happens to the survivors?[edit]

Since there are a list of purpoted survivors, should there be a summary of what happens to those who survives? K61824 (talk) 01:38, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That was full of unsourced stuff and other stuff that was just wrong, I took a lot of it out, what remains are simply far fetched legends.Smeat75 (talk) 18:25, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Modern use" section[edit]

Is it appropriate to have the "Modern use" section when the account of the execution is quite unreliable ? Rps (talk) 13:08, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, it is not appropriate and I have removed it.Smeat75 (talk) 18:25, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Penalty for other crimes section[edit]

The second bullet point contains a link to Magician (fantasy) when referencing the punishment of those who employed sorcery and other magic against others. I feel linking to a page about magic in the modern context of fantasy entertainment is a bit of a mistake considering the magic they are referring to in the Roman era is a different anthropological concept. I have changed the link to Magic_in_the_Graeco-Roman_world as it is more apporpriate Spec ops Grunt (talk) 23:00, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Modern use"[edit]

Speaking of modern use or modern accidental use, why not Matadors, rodeo, etc, or even some of these usually unexpected moments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.109.174.160 (talk) 02:49, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]