It was frequently all dark side. Let’s see
1 Triumphs
When a Roman General conquered new land he’d get a Triumph. A Triumph was a cortege through the thoroughfares of Rome that showed off any captured wealth, slaves, and oils glorifying the subjection.
At the end of the Triumph, any captured generals or dogfaces would be ceremoniously strangled to death by the victorious General and his men. This is the fate that awaited Cleopatra had she not killed herself.
2 Slavery
The Romans had A LOT of slaves. utmost civic slaves had enough decent lives as far as slavery goes but slaves working the mines had it hard.
These men and women were treated as expendable. They were worked to prostration and beaten after they collapsed. Life expectation was veritably short for these men.
In the end, the harsh fact is that the Roman frugality was reliant on slavery to a degree that it’s hard to understand. The Romans could be nice masters but they could also be brutal masters.
3 pugilists
What was the darker side of Ancient Rome?
utmost were captured adversary dogfaces that were also forced to kill one another for cheering crowds. The Romans also forced womanish pugilists and impaired pugilists to fight- which everyone set up ridiculous. Imagine being killed in front of a crowd while people laughed.
Emperor Commodus loved to pretend to be a Gladiator and fight in the arena. His favorite thing was killing anyone he allowed of as “ weird ”- which is substantially impaired people. He’d kill them veritably sluggishly, rehearsing his swordsmanship and bow delicacy- all while people cheered their hearts out.
4 Conquest
Rome could be a gentle whopper- but if you defied and revolted you were going to have a bad time.
When the Gaul’s rose against Caesar he went villa the villa, slaughtering and enslaving anyone he set up. When a Gallic lineage simply disrespected Caesar, he wiped out the lineage. While in Gaul Caesar maybe killed or enslaved as numerous as 1 million people in an act we’d consider genocide moment.
Indeed when you did not repel the Romans could be brutal. When the Chief of the Iceni made Rome his heir at law upon his death the Romans moved into Iceni home and started violating women by the thousands. When the Chief’s woman , Boudicca, protested the rape of her daughters- she was beaten publically.
5 The Jewish Genocides
The Romans and the Jews didn’t get on.
The Romans for their part tried to work out deals with the Jews that would allow them all to get along but the Jews were no way going to concede to Roman rule.
Ultimately, the Jews would rebellion and the Romans would march down to Judea and butcher them.
In the Bar Kokhba rebellion,,000 Jews were massacred by Roman dogfaces. In total 50 metropolises were leveled and 985 town lets were raised. While the Romans did kill numerous Jewish soldiers, they substantially killed Jewish civilians.
