They called it victoria carnalis – the carnal victory.
Why Did Female War Captives Fear Being Taken to the Colosseum?
They called it a reward system for champions.
But what the Roman Empire did beneath its greatest arena was something far worse than combat.
On a summer day in 82 AD, beneath the newly opened Colosseum, a woman from conquered Germania waited in a stone cell as fifty thousand Romans cheered above. She'd watched her children killed. Seen her village burned. Now she heard footsteps approaching – heavy, deliberate. A gladiator, still covered in arena blood, had just won his fight. What followed wasn't random violence. It was systematic state policy designed to demonstrate absolute Roman dominance through the complete destruction of conquered peoples.
Iron rings bolted into walls. Stone chambers with restraint systems. Ledgers cataloging women as numbered inventory. Scratch marks from desperate fingernails still preserved in the walls beneath the Colosseum.

From the writings of Martial and Juvenal to archaeological evidence in the hypogeum, from legal classifications of conquered women as res (things, not people) to administrative records tracking "victor privileges," this was an industrial machine that processed thousands of captivae between 70 and 404 AD.

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SOURCES u0026 FURTHER READING:
Martial, Liber Spectaculorum (Book of Spectacles), c. 80 AD
Juvenal, Satires, c. 100-127 AD
Cassius Dio, Roman History, 3rd century AD
Kyle, D.G., Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (1998)
Futrell, A., Blood in the Arena (1997)
Coleman, K., "Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments"
Archaeological reports from Colosseum hypogeum excavations (1990s-2010s)

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