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Justin Smith-Ruiu
Feb 05, 2023
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  1. The crucifixion of the lions

A curious passage in Salammbô, Gustave Flaubert’s 1862 Orientalist phantasmagoria, describes a mostly forgotten practice of the ancient Carthaginians:

[A group of Barbaria…

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