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hi
does someone have more information regarding ancient torture techniques and ancient torture devices?
tnx.
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Crucifiction......nasty.
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I have read a testimony of a slave was not permissable in court unless extracted under torture. There may be clues in persuing that line. I suppose any means of inflicting pain mechanicly would be used, but also a medication as henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) could be used to invoke terrible cramps and hullicinations. Use too much and it was curtains .....
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I have also seen it said that the torture rack was adapted from a Greek medical device, and that one of the cuneiform sources from Alexander's days seems to mention him using one (see Jona Lendering's website). Plutarch's Artaxerxes and Ctesias' Persica both have stories of torturers in the service of Achaemenid kings.
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I think the ingenious ways in the Lives of the Saints for disposing of Chritians/making Martyrs should be a good source of ideas!
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I don't want derail the discussion but, does this mean that the Costitutio Antoniniana with one hand gave the citizenship to most of the people of the Empire but, with the other one, permitted the use of torture on the very same citizens? More or less.