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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Like most of these “oh my God so brutal” execution methods, scaphism probably never actually happened or is at least exaggerated. Ctesias wrote the only first-hand account of the punishment ever being delivered and his credibility among modern historians is a bit… questionable. Plutarch’s own writings on scaphism were lifted straight from Ctesias, as well.

  Even if scaphism did actually happen like Ctesias wrote, it’s not like it was a normal thing.

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    even if it happened only one or twice, even if it didn’t happen at all - someone had to think about it in enough detail to create a torture method beyond most people’s imagination

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    • orrk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      now the chinease/japanese and the human sashimi competitions most likely did happen

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      • MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The what

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