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Animal Games in Ancient Rome

Season 3, Ep. 38

A very special chat with Kathryn Murphy from Trinity College Dublin about the way exotic animals were used for entertainment and hunting in ancient Rome. With a particularly gruesome (i.e. fascinating) tale of a human-bull mating. Yeah, we know.


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Produced by Colette Kinsella for Red Hare Media.


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