The more advanced a society, the more blood-thirsty? Behind the Roman gladiator games lies the cruel history of violent exploitation of tens of thousands of animals.
When word of his younger brother’s life-threatening illness reached him, Roman General Tiberius (later Emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus) who was in Pavia at the time, crossed the Alps like a man possessed.
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