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To: SunkenCiv

I was reading a book about the Battle of Canae, and the author claimed tha only the Carthagineans killed their babies.


22 posted on 05/05/2011 9:54:04 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

In Rome slaves were not concidered people as such, Roman citizens were people and operated under Law. If a Roman wanted to kill a slave or its kid that was his option until late in the Empire. It wasn’t sacrifice it was economics.

http://home.scarlet.be/mauk.haemers/collegium_religionis/human_sacrifice.htm


23 posted on 05/06/2011 4:08:18 AM PDT by Little Bill (Sorry)
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To: Fractal Trader

The Carthaginians used infants (not necessarily their *own*, but still) as human sacrifices to various idols. That is of course denied by their modern apologists, but it remains a fact. Cannae was Hannibal’s greatest victory, but he’s really just the precursor of Arab jihadist invaders of the Middle Ages to the present.


26 posted on 05/07/2011 8:06:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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