Beasts of the Roman Games

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(05-14-2020, 06:23 PM)bruin Wrote: Michel Pastoureau is a European Historian from France. According to him, in the book, "BEAR, History of a Fallen King", he says that he read the existing records from the actual events of the Roman Circus Games. My old friend from animal debates some years ago, "Charger1" ( a tiger enthusiast ) once posted from a site he had discovered; the records translated into English. I remember that they were not easy to read because, even though translated, the wording was unusual. I remember specifically reading about the rhinoceros and the bear fight ( which was not really a fight, but a killing ). This event and more are told of in this book.

I´ve seen some texts and that rhino-bear was a no contest, rhino killed the bear very fast. Then again it has to be remembered, that rhino has been to a bear something never seen before. Anyway what I´ve seen has been worthless for people who try to find easy answers in "who is who" among predators. There is so little about predator against predator encounters. They wrote a lot more how many animals were killed overall in different games, that was after all the thing which was important when people with power tried to brag to each others. If some lion killed a tiger or tiger killed a lion wasn´t important. Important was to get as many animals as possible and massacre them. 

If someone would really have something more than some vague descriptions it would be really interesting, but looks like, that no-one is able to provide anything giving some real numbers etc. Reply