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It seems historically correct. Three such columns stood on each end of the spina of Nero's circus, where the Christians were martyred, actually ordered by Caligula (any ressemblance with Greta Leader Kim Il Un is a coincidence).Happy birthday Damian! However I have to comment on those three columns in the upper left of that drawing. I haven't seen anything quite that phallic since the last parade of missiles in Pyongyang
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The Chronicler had seen enough. The soldiers laughing like the juvenile brats they were as their centurion performed his ridiculous gymnastics, hanging on with one hand whilst screwing the helpless nude girl tied firmly to the beams. The sound of her helpless screams still ringing in his ears, he turned his horse and galloped at full speed back to the town.
"I must warn Barbaria! No time to lose!"
With Siss captured and helpless, the Romans must be on to them; must have heard about their planned rebellion. Barbaria was in danger!
He tied up his horse, and headed towards the house.
His blood froze, a familiar voice, but unfamiliar words "You.....BASTARDS....you....AAARGH!'
Rounding the corner, he clutched at a wooden column for support at the sight that greeted him.
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Barbaria! Nude, stretched and roped to a frame, being enthusiastically thrashed by a soldier. Behind, equally nude, Cxslave waiting her turn.
He bit his lip in frustration. "Too late.....too...fucking.. late...."
There was no one like Barbaria. No one else with the cunning, the resourcefulness, the sheer guts to take on the Romans, and now here she was, helpless, tortured, defeated.
The Chronicler thought his world was ending. Worse was to come.
They cut her down, dragged her to a cross, stretched out her arms, and hammered iron spikes through her wrists.
The sound of her agony echoed from the nearby buildings as they raised her cross.
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The cross shuddered into the upright.
The unmistakable sound of crunching bone as her heels were nailed in place.
She writhed in indescribable agony, then saw me watching.
Four words. Just four words. Mouthed, inaudible, in our native German:
"Find Connie. Tell her!"
Don't blame Damian. Blame XIX century artist Jean-Leon Gerome, who created the original used for the back ground.Happy birthday Damian! However I have to comment on those three columns in the upper left of that drawing. I haven't seen anything quite that phallic since the last parade of missiles in Pyongyang
It's historically accurate, if a bit speculative. The Circus Maximus and other circuses had an pillars at either end of the spina that ran down the center. One in the Circus Maximus was an obelisk that Augustus brought back from Egypt. It now stands in the Piazza del Popolo.It seems historically correct. Three such columns stood on each end of the spina of Nero's circus, where the Christians were martyred, actually ordered by Caligula (any ressemblance with Greta Leader Kim Il Un is a coincidence).
Madiosi make the background for new manips.....Don't blame Damian. Blame XIX century artist Jean-Leon Gerome, who created the original used for the back ground.
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And not the only time Damian used it, either.
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But, Gerome is incorrect in showing the lions coming up through a trap door. This was a feature of the Colosseum. There is no evidence of such a structure ever existing at the Circus, which was primarily a chariot race track.
A bit late to the party but
Happy Birthday Damian
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At least I can make sure you get cake
Hazardious, to use so weak hooks.
Gerome is incorrect in showing the lions coming up through a trap door. This was a feature of the Colosseum.
You can practically smell the charred flesh!In this, lesser-known and less used Gerome,
'The Departure of the Cats from the Circus"
the cute cuddlies are disappearing into the trapdoor,
leaving behind some half-eaten cat-food,
and some smouldering human torches:
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