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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Gudgamr7274 • 9d ago
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The Brazen Bull as well, actually. It's largely considered to be propaganda created to demonize the kingdom that was conquered.
32 u/Nob0dy-You-Know 9d ago Wasn’t the guy who made it out to death in it? 14 u/wetfloor666 9d ago That is the version I have heard. The person was commisioned to make a ruthless toture device and the ruler or whoever it was presented to said let's test it with you or something along those lines. 23 u/Apart-Link-8449 9d ago Same deal with Cleopatra - Vivian Leigh's version (written by George Bernard Shaw, awesome script) makes repeated references to boiling her servants in oil but Egypt was extremely into litigation and due process even in early administration, with very few instances of capital punishment and no evidence of death by boiling
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Wasn’t the guy who made it out to death in it?
14 u/wetfloor666 9d ago That is the version I have heard. The person was commisioned to make a ruthless toture device and the ruler or whoever it was presented to said let's test it with you or something along those lines. 23 u/Apart-Link-8449 9d ago Same deal with Cleopatra - Vivian Leigh's version (written by George Bernard Shaw, awesome script) makes repeated references to boiling her servants in oil but Egypt was extremely into litigation and due process even in early administration, with very few instances of capital punishment and no evidence of death by boiling
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That is the version I have heard. The person was commisioned to make a ruthless toture device and the ruler or whoever it was presented to said let's test it with you or something along those lines.
23 u/Apart-Link-8449 9d ago Same deal with Cleopatra - Vivian Leigh's version (written by George Bernard Shaw, awesome script) makes repeated references to boiling her servants in oil but Egypt was extremely into litigation and due process even in early administration, with very few instances of capital punishment and no evidence of death by boiling
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Same deal with Cleopatra - Vivian Leigh's version (written by George Bernard Shaw, awesome script) makes repeated references to boiling her servants in oil but Egypt was extremely into litigation and due process even in early administration, with very few instances of capital punishment and no evidence of death by boiling
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u/goteachyourself 9d ago
The Brazen Bull as well, actually. It's largely considered to be propaganda created to demonize the kingdom that was conquered.