06-01-2013, 07:33 PM
As this is in the References and Reviews section, I thought you might be intending to review a few torturing options for us! :-P
Most Roman torture in literary sources (the more crazed martyr stories excepted) seems to involve flogging, burning with irons and stretching with racks and suchlike. Prior to the Antonine Constitution of AD212 (or thereabouts), Roman citizens were immune from torture, but after that those in the lower social gradation (humiliores) became torturable, and within another century or so all sorts of people were being tortured and burned alive. Progress, of a sort...
Meanwhile, you might find this thread interesting:
Catapults as torture devices
Most Roman torture in literary sources (the more crazed martyr stories excepted) seems to involve flogging, burning with irons and stretching with racks and suchlike. Prior to the Antonine Constitution of AD212 (or thereabouts), Roman citizens were immune from torture, but after that those in the lower social gradation (humiliores) became torturable, and within another century or so all sorts of people were being tortured and burned alive. Progress, of a sort...
Meanwhile, you might find this thread interesting:
Catapults as torture devices
Nathan Ross
