ЛАЧИ: 15 исторических профессий, унесших больше жизней, чем любая война

15 Historical Jobs That Killed More People Than Any War Number fifteen: Roman Gladiators. Imagine standing on sand the colour of rust, looking up at fifty thousand people who have paid to watch you die. The Colosseum in Rome, completed around seventy-two CE, was not an arena of sport in any sense we would recognise today. It was an industrial facility for the production of death as entertainment, and the men at its centre were workers in the most literal sense, trained, owned, leased, and expended like any other commodity in the Roman economy. The crowd above you is roaring, and you understand, with the clarity that only mortal danger produces, that their enthusiasm is not for your skill but for the possibility of your end.