Roman Beast Hunts
The Ancients
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Pompey Magna's Triumph in Rome
Pompey Magna had trouble with elephants when he tried to enter Rome on a carriage drawn by horses, but they wouldn't fit through the gate. When you get to 55 BC, he's now going to put on at the circus maximus in Rome. He brings out 17 elephants and they are going to be slaughtered by Gaitulian spearsmen. And at first it's exciting. There's one elephant who has been really badly wounded in the feet... then another elephant is killed by a javelin just under its eye. Whereupon the whole herd panic, they've had enough and they start running at the iron barriers in a massive escape attempt. The crowd are actually
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