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    displayed in the venationes due to their religious importance to the Romans. Revered for its ferocity, the lion was extremely popular in venationes and gladiatorial...
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    ancient Romans. They were used for events such as gladiator combats, venationes (animal slayings) and executions. About 230 Roman amphitheatres have been...
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    preferred to attend gladiatorial fights, those with ferocious beasts (venationes), reproductions of naval battles (naumachia), chariot races, athletic...
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    horse races, chariot races, the equestrian Troy Game, staged beast hunts (venationes), athletic contests, gladiator combat, and historical re-enactments. From...
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    III (r. 425–455) repeated the ban in 438, perhaps effectively, though venationes continued beyond 536. By this time, interest in gladiator contests had...
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  • suggests new discovery | indy100". www.indy100.com. Retrieved 2024-09-24. "Venationes – Animal Hunts at the Colosseum". Colosseum. 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2024-09-24...
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    at least 523, when Anicius Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King Theodoric the Great for their high cost. The Colosseum...
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  • “Una falcata decorada con inscripción ibérica. Juegos gladiatorios y venationes”, en Homenaje a Enrique Pla Ballester, Trabajos Varios del SIP 89, 319-344...
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    races in the circus (ludi circenses). Animal exhibitions with mock hunts (venationes) and theatrical performances (ludi scaenici) also became part of the festivals...
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    Hussovianus (around 1480 – after 1533). His poem Carmen de statura, feritate ac venatione bisontis (A Song about the Appearance, Savagery and Hunting of the Bison)...
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    processions on a grand scale and was the most popular venue for large-scale venationes; in the late 3rd century, the emperor Probus laid on a spectacular Circus...
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    Sparreboom, A. (2016). "Chapter 2: Procuring beasts for hunting spectacles". Venationes Africanae: Hunting spectacles in Roman North Africa: cultural significance...
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    between beasts or men and beasts and men or beasts or men and beasts (venationes). Amphitheatre of Mérida. Relief of gladiators from the Amphitheatre of...
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    This leads researchers to believe that the spectacles here included venationes, the hunting and killing of wild animals. Andrea Palladio and Étienne...
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    human-versus-animal events were held as competition and entertainment, the Venationes. These hunting games spread to Africa, Asia, and Europe during Roman times...
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    on the orchestra in order to adapt the building to the organization of venationes and gladiator schools. An earthquake in Hierapolis in the 7th century...
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  • 15 (2): 347–348. doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1093891315 – via Project Euclid. De Venatione Sapientiae, 23. Curley, E. M. (October 1971). "Did Leibniz State "Leibniz'Law"...
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    to protect herds that were out at pasture), and not displayed in the venationes, either. The special status of the wolf was not based on national ideology...
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    resisted Christianization: gladiatorial combats (munera), animal hunts (venationes), theatrical performances (ludi scaenici), and chariot races (ludi circenses)...
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  • elephants were all used as working animals in ancient Rome and Greece. Venationes were some of the most popular public spectacles in ancient Rome. These...
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    collection to Napoleon I. The mosaic depicts a single narrative of munera and venationes similar to the celebratory events a wealthy person would host in their...
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    217 CE, the theatre was modified to accommodate gladiatorial games and venationes but it was restored to its original form as a theatre after 250 CE. The...
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  • Cammerlander, 1534; Oppiani de Venatione libri IV., Parisiis apud Vascosanum, 1549; Oppiani Anazerbei de Piscatu Libri V., de Venatione libri IV, Parisiis, 1555...
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    (Rome 1510). There were also works on hunting like Natale Conti's De venatione (1551) and the Cynegeticon (Hunting with dogs) of Pietro degli Angeli...
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    to protect herds that were out at pasture), and not displayed in the venationes, either. The special status of the wolf was not based on national ideology...
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    translation of Robert of Ketton. De non aliud (On the Not-Other) (1462) De venatione sapientiae (1462) De ludo globi (1463) Compendium (1463) De apice theoriae...
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    Nicolaus Hussovianus in his Latin poem Carmen de statura, feritate ac venatione bisontis (A Song about the Appearance, Savagery and Hunting of the Bison...
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  • the banning of associated gladiator shows and other arena blood-sports; venationes (wild beast hunts in the arena) were banned in 498. Chariot racing and...
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    competitions held in the circus were very expensive. These competitions included venationes held in amphitheatres and circuses. A necropolis near the building contains...
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  • occasion he received King Theodoric's permission to celebrate the event with venationes in the Colosseum, the last games ever held there, but later the king complained...
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