Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time

Re:Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time by sandworm101 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @09:42AM (#27721570)

They might have said that they did such things, but i just dont believe the lion myth. Anyone who has been up close to a non-caged lion realizes the absurdity of the concept. Like all cats, lions are infintely more flexible than us. There is no wrestling hold that would keep them from ripping a human attacker to shreds within seconds. You would have better luck wrestling jaws.

Even if you survived, those claws are not sterile. The inevitable infections would kill you.

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Re:Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time by adflux on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:01AM (#27722032)

It's about two steps away from telling people Atlas really carried the earth. The strongest man alive would be destroyed by a lion. 4 paws and a set of incredibly sharp teeth all perfectly capable of lacerating any of your INCREDIBLY ACCESSIBLE major arteries in your neck, wrists, upper arms etc...

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Re:Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time by sandworm101 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:32PM (#27722796)

And, far more often than not, lions have friends within earshot. Jaws at least hunted alone. Nobody has ever ene boasted about wrestling a pride of lions.

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Re:Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time by hasmanean on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:33AM (#27810685)

You mean African lions? There were smaller lions in the Mediterranean I believe, which are now extinct.

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