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The starved Roman population of Persian-occupied Amida resorts to cannibalism during the siege of Amida by Roman armies.

Related Conflict :Roman-Persian War of 502-506 AD., Roman Siege of Amida (504AD)
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Population of Amida Origin: Mixed, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Population of Amida Origin: Mixed, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: death
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    Level :intrasocial
    Source :Procopius, History of the Wars (De Bellis) 1.9.22 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Amida (Diyarbakır)
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 6
    Year :A.D. 504
     
    Context :siege
    civilian
    Motivation :other
     
    Original Text :Ῥωμαίοις γὰρ τοῖς ἐν τῇ πόλει, ὥσπερ μοι προδεδήλωται, ξὺν αὐτοῖς μείνασιν οὐδὲν τὸ παράπαν χορηγεῖν ἔγνωσαν, ἐξ ὅτου οἱ πολέμιοι ἐς τὴν πολιορκίαν κατέστησαν, οἳ δὴ ἐς βρώσεις ἀήθεις τὰ πρῶτα ἐλθόντες τῶν τε οὐ θεμιτῶν ἁψάμενοι πάντων, εἶτα τελευτῶντες καὶ ἀλλήλων ἐγεύσαντο.
     
    Translation :For to the Romans who had remained with them in the city, as I have stated above, they had decided to dispense nothing at all from the time when their enemy began the siege; and so these men at first resorted to unaccustomed foods and laid hold on every forbidden thing, and at the last they even tasted each other’s blood.
     
    Edition :Procopius: De Bellis; in: Procopius. History of the Wars, Volume I-V. ed. and transl. H. B. Dewing, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914-1928.
     
     
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    Created at :2021-11-04 : 01:16:03
    Last changed :2021-11-22 : 09:03:19
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00011315
    Static URL :https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00011315