... of thegames, Blandina, together with a young boy, was exposed to “the scourges,the animals, and the hot griddle, she was at last tossed into a net and exposed to a bull” (1 .55 ). In this way, ... by land and sea, both by night and day, being bound to ten leopards, Imean a band of soldiers, who, even when they receive benefits, show them-selves all the worse” (Letter to the Romans, 5. 1).20Lactantius ... martyrs, and the Gospel of Philip characterizes God as “a man-eater” (Scorpiace,7;theGospel of Philip). This is a standard Christian technique of reversal and re-evaluation. Things and happenings...