Source of the photo: Les merveilles de la science – Chapter Pisciculture, by: Louis Figuier.
Publisher: Furne, Jouvet et Cie. Year : 1869
Caption of the photo (in French): L’affranchi pollion faisant jeter un esclave aux murènes de ses viviers
Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal
This is sad to review this tragedy that was happening during the Roman Empire in the 19th Century. Some of household slaves were executed because of very minor things such as breaking crystal glass.
Some of well-regarded Romans used to keep the moray eels as pets in special pools. The sad stories tell how condemned slaves were thrown alive into the pools and turn instantly a food to hungry morays. The other side of these sad stories tells that this way of execution was deemed to be unacceptable cruelty, even by Roman standards.
