Be Quiet Dark Rock 6 and Pro 6 review: top performance, $110–$130 price tags

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Be Quiet Dark Rock 6 and Pro 6 review: top performance, $110–$130 price tags

Be Quiet's new Dark Rock 6 and Dark Rock Pro 6 air coolers deliver a major performance upgrade over their predecessors, ranking among the top performers in testing. The all-black aesthetic is more refined than ever, giving them a unique visual appeal. However, the $110 and $130 price tags for the standard and Pro models respectively are significantly higher than comparable competing coolers.

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The Dark Rock Pro 6 and Dark Rock 6 are a huge upgrade over Be Quiet's previous air coolers. Where it had previously struggled to keep up with our picks for the best air coolers, these new arrivals are amongst the top performers in my testing.

Be Quiet hasn't lost its eye for aesthetics, either. The all-black design of the Dark Rock 6 duo looks even more impressive out of the box than previous models. In that sense, Be Quiet has something of a unique selling point here: it's turned an imposing mass of aluminium into a pretty thing.

Yet there's an elephant in the room. Despite my appreciation for the upgraded performance, aesthetics, and easy installation, I just can't look past the price attached to these two coolers. Both are very expensive, at $110/$130 for the standard/Pro models, respectively. That's one helluva markup on some of the excellent air coolers we rank highly today, an added cost of around $60–$100. When air coolers are seen as the more affordable alternative, these prices just don't add up.

Buy if...

✅ You just want the looks: If you're eyeing up either of these coolers because you think they'll fit your build aesthetics, that's a reasonable consideration in itself.

Don't buy if...

❌ You want the best performance per dollar: You can spend a lot less on an equally capable cooler.

Specifications

Dark Rock 6

Dark Rock Pro 6

Dimensions (mm)

102 x 139 x 162

147 x 140 x 169

Fan(s) included

1x 135 mm

1x custom 135 mm, 1x 120 mm

Manufacturer rated TDP (W)

220

300

Socket support

AM5/AM4 + LGA 1851/1700/1200/1150/1151/1155

No. of heatpipes

6

7

Connector

4-pin PWM

4-pin PWM (7-pin between fans)

Accessories

Screwdriver, thermal paste

Price

$110/€90

$130/€110

The Dark Rock 6 comes with a Silent Wings 135 mm fan. That's a whole 15 mm larger than the one found on this cooler's predecessor, the Dark Rock 5. That's one clear benefit of the newer model: a big fan can push more air at lower RPM compared to a small fan. The 135 mm fan used here can spin up to 2000 rpm.

This is also a "custom-designed" fan for this cooler, rather than the off-the-shelf Silent Wings 4 found on the previous model. That said, from what I can gather, and I only have a smaller Silent Wings 4 for comparison, the main difference between this custom-designed fan and the Silent Wings 4 is a slightly smaller hub. I have measured the hub on both and they are roughly 5 mm apart—so that'd explain the 135 mm sizing on the newer custom models.

The Dark Rock 6 also comes with a semi-passive mode. There's a small switch hidden on the side of the fan shroud, marked 'P' and 'Q'. No prizes for what these both mean.

Performance mode: runs the fans based on whatever you've set on your motherboard header—the cooler's single fan uses a 4-pin PWM connection.

Quiet mode: overrides the fan header to reduce RPM at certain duty cycles, and switches it off entirely below 40%.

The Dark Rock Pro 6 adds another 120 mm fan into the mix. The two fans are connected together with a 7-pin connector. It also includes one extra heatpipe compared to the standard model, seven to six, which makes it that bit more capable, as you'll see in the thermals section below.

Thermals

(Image credit: Future) The Dark Rock Pro 6 and Dark Rock 6 are very capable air coolers. Both manage to keep a Core i7 14700K at a reasonable temperature under load. The Dark Rock 6 generally performs similarly to the Arctic Freezer 36, if at times even outperforming our pick for the best budget air cooler , except at higher power draw. Meanwhile, the Dark Rock Pro 6 performs very well compared to the rest, if only falling short of the mighty Thermalright Peerless Assassin.

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The chart below shows the delta over ambient, accounting for any fluctuations in ambient temperature between tests

Baldur's Gate 3 @ 1.275 V | ΔT x264 @ 1.275 V | ΔT Prime95 @ 1.275 V | ΔT Prime95 @ 1.325 V | ΔT Ambient temperature

Max ΔT

Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

34

28

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

34

30

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

37

33

Arctic Freezer 36

34

31

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

34

31

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

32

28

0 10 20 30 40

Baldur's Gate 3 @ 1.275 V | ΔT Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 34 Max ΔT, 28 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 34 Max ΔT, 30 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 37 Max ΔT, 33 Avg ΔT

Arctic Freezer 36 34 Max ΔT, 31 Avg ΔT

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 34 Max ΔT, 31 Avg ΔT

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 32 Max ΔT, 28 Avg ΔT

Max ΔT

Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

43

33

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

43

34

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

48

38

Arctic Freezer 36

43

35

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

44

36

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

40

32

0 15 30 45 60

x264 @ 1.275 V | ΔT Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 43 Max ΔT, 33 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 43 Max ΔT, 34 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 48 Max ΔT, 38 Avg ΔT

Arctic Freezer 36 43 Max ΔT, 35 Avg ΔT

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 44 Max ΔT, 36 Avg ΔT

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 40 Max ΔT, 32 Avg ΔT

Max ΔT

Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

43

41

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

43

39

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

50

47

Arctic Freezer 36

44

40

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

46

42

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

44

38

0 15 30 45 60

Prime95 @ 1.275 V | ΔT Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 43 Max ΔT, 41 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 43 Max ΔT, 39 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 50 Max ΔT, 47 Avg ΔT

Arctic Freezer 36 44 Max ΔT, 40 Avg ΔT

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 46 Max ΔT, 42 Avg ΔT

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 44 Max ΔT, 38 Avg ΔT

Max ΔT

Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

62

54

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

63

58

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

70

65

Arctic Freezer 36

59

55

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

59

55

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

60

51

0 20 40 60 80

Prime95 @ 1.325 V | ΔT Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 62 Max ΔT, 54 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 63 Max ΔT, 58 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 70 Max ΔT, 65 Avg ΔT

Arctic Freezer 36 59 Max ΔT, 55 Avg ΔT

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 59 Max ΔT, 55 Avg ΔT

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 60 Max ΔT, 51 Avg ΔT

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

20

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

20

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

21

Arctic Freezer 36

27

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

23

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

22

0 7.5 15 22.5 30

Ambient temperature Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 20

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 20

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 21

Arctic Freezer 36 27

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 23

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 22

They also both easily outperform the Dark Rock 5 (non-Pro) in my testing. That was, by far, the worst performer of the lot in my latest batch of testing, which shows just how significant a leap this new lineup has been by way of performance for Be Quiet.

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The chart below shows the CPU package temperature temperature as recorded in HWInfo

Baldur's Gate 3 @ 1.275 V x264 @ 1.275 V Prime95 @ 1.275 V Prime95 @ 1.325 V Prime95 @ 1.4 V Ambient temperature

Max °C

Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

54

48

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

54

50

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

58

54

Arctic Freezer 36

61

58

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

57

54

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

54

50

0 20 40 60 80

Baldur's Gate 3 @ 1.275 V Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 54 Max °C, 48 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 54 Max °C, 50 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 58 Max °C, 54 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36 61 Max °C, 58 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 57 Max °C, 54 Avg °C

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 54 Max °C, 50 Avg °C

Max °C

Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

63

53

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

63

54

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

69

59

Arctic Freezer 36

70

62

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

67

59

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

62

54

0 20 40 60 80

x264 @ 1.275 V Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 63 Max °C, 53 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 63 Max °C, 54 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 69 Max °C, 59 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36 70 Max °C, 62 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 67 Max °C, 59 Avg °C

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 62 Max °C, 54 Avg °C

Max °C

Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

63

61

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

63

59

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

71

68

Arctic Freezer 36

71

67

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

69

65

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

66

60

0 20 40 60 80

Prime95 @ 1.275 V Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 63 Max °C, 61 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 63 Max °C, 59 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 71 Max °C, 68 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36 71 Max °C, 67 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 69 Max °C, 65 Avg °C

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66 Max °C, 60 Avg °C

Max °C

Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

82

74

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

83

78

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

91

86

Arctic Freezer 36

86

82

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

82

78

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

82

73

0 25 50 75 100

Prime95 @ 1.325 V Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 82 Max °C, 74 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 83 Max °C, 78 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 91 Max °C, 86 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36 86 Max °C, 82 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 82 Max °C, 78 Avg °C

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 82 Max °C, 73 Avg °C

Max °C

Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

100

99

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

100

99

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

100

Arctic Freezer 36

100

99

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

100

99

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

100

82

0 25 50 75 100

Prime95 @ 1.4 V Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 100 Max °C, 99 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 100 Max °C, 99 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 100 Max °C, 100 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36 100 Max °C, 99 Avg °C

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 100 Max °C, 99 Avg °C

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 100 Max °C, 82 Avg °C

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6

20

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6

20

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5

21

Arctic Freezer 36

27

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB

23

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

22

0 7.5 15 22.5 30

Ambient temperature Data Product Value

Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 6 20

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 6 20

Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5 21

Arctic Freezer 36 27

Arctic Freezer 36-S A-RGB 23

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 22

I test at a few different fixed voltages: 1.275 V, 1.325 V, and 1.4 V. This gives a decent idea of the sort of wattage each cooler can manage, which helps when sizing these up for use with other chips outside of Intel's power-hungry 14th Gen. The top level, 1.4 V, is a bit of a torture test, and most air coolers struggle to keep a chip from thermal throttling.

Aesthetics

Future Future Future Future Future Future Both coolers look great. Be Quiet has always made a good-looking air cooler, but it has tweaked a few smaller details on its latest models to offer a cleaner appearance. They're totally black, from head to toe, with only the small exception of the Be Quiet name etched onto a plate with a metallic finish—that's a little bigger on the Dark Rock Pro 6 to cover the extra fan.

They're much nicer units to look at than some of the cheaper units with bare aluminium on display. Similarly, with the fans totally covered, the newer models look a lot cleaner than their predecessors, which have one fan clear to see. So in terms of aesthetics, I think Be Quiet has made a marked improvement here with both models, even if the Pro is a bit of a lump.

Installation

Future Future Upon unboxing the Dark Rock 6, I noticed its packaging is entirely made of cardboard, an improvement over the foam previously used on the Dark Rock 5. Inside the cardboard accessories box are two mounting options: one for AMD, which covers AM5/AM4; and one for Intel, which covers LGA 1851/1700/1200/1150/1151/1155.

Be Quiet! also includes an extra long screwdriver in the box, as it has done with previous models, which comes in handy for what comes next.

Installation on Intel systems requires attaching four screws to the corners of the rear plate, held in place with small O-rings. That's the fiddly bit; the rest of the process is less so. Four thumbscrews affix to the threads on the rear plate, holding both sides to the motherboard. Onto this fit two metal brackets—being careful to note the correct orientation—held in place by four additional screws. The cooler has two more captive screws that line up with holes on the bracket, and the cooler can be tightened into place.

(Image credit: Future) Installation on AMD systems is a little more straightforward. Remove the bracket included on most motherboards, replace it with the metal brackets included with the Dark Rock 6, then screw it all down with the two screws on the cooler.

Don't forget thermal paste—luckily, there's some in the box.

The whole process is more or less a match for the Dark Rock 5. The only major difference is the fan, which instead of using metal clips as per the Dark Rock 5, slides into place on the Dark Rock 6. It can also be adjusted to make room for RAM, though that's not really an issue on the Dark Rock 6, as it doesn't extend above the RAM anyway. The only downside with this sorta approach is that you can't just replace the fan with a third-party model without jury-rigging it—sometimes simplest is best.

Sound

(Image credit: Future) In my testing with a TopTes TS-501B sound meter sat at 40 cm away from my open test bench, both the Be Quiet models performed reasonably well compared to the others that I've tested in the same setup. They're not the quietest by any measure—that still goes to the Freezer 36 using the older P12 fan—nor do they massively outperform the Dark Rock 5.

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}#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-carousel-counter { font-size: 14px !important; color: #374151 !important; text-align: center !important; margin-top: 1rem !important; }#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-legend { display: flex !important; justify-content: center !important; flex-wrap: wrap !important; gap: 8px 16px !important; margin: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; margin-top: 1rem !important; }#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-legend-item { display: flex !important; align-items: center !important; gap: 6px !important; font-size: 14px !important; color: #374151 !important; }#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-legend-color { width: 12px !important; height: 12px !important; border-radius: 3px !important; }#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-multi-value-legend {display: flex !important;justify-content: center !important;flex-wrap: wrap !important;gap: 12px 24px !important;margin-bottom: 1.5rem !important;padding: 0 !important;}#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-multi-legend-item { display: flex !important; align-items: center !important; gap: 8px !important; font-size: 14px !important; color: #374151 !important; font-weight: 500 !important; }#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-multi-legend-swatch { width: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; border-radius: 3px !important; }#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-benchmark-group { margin-bottom: 1rem !important; }#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-benchmark-title {font-size: 18px !important; font-weight: 600 !important; margin-bottom: 16px !important; margin-top: 0 !important; padding: 0 !important;text-align: center !important; color: var(--riv-primary) !important; flex: 1 !important; min-width: 0 !important;font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.3 !important;text-transform: none !important;white-space: normal !important;overflow-wrap: break-word !important;word-wrap: break-word !important;max-width: 100% !important;}#fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-bar-row, #fv-chart-1782828035992-1m49joxh5 .fv-stacked-product { display: flex !important; 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Though it should be said that no air cooler I've tested makes much of a ruckus compared to a large liquid cooler.

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(Image credit: Future) The Dark Rock 6 costs $110. It's a little cheaper than the Dark Rock Pro 6, which includes two fans, at $130, but nevertheless that's a high price in today's market. The Thermalright Peerless Assassin is a fraction of the cost at $40, as are the Arctic Freezer 36 and Freezer 36-S, and all very capable coolers in their own right, as my tests show.

In terms of the Dark Rock 6, there's often only a couple of degrees between the Pro and standard models in testing, if anything. The dual fans are a benefit not enjoyed by the standard model, which will help keep temps down without needing a super aggressive fan curve. Beyond that, the standard model appears the better buy. Though I find it hard to justify either option versus a cheaper cooler—most of all the Thermalright Peerless Assassin.

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Both of the new Dark Rock 6 models are better than the older Dark Rock 5, and by some margin, but for considerably more money. The Dark Rock Pro 5 is $85 and the Dark Rock 5 is $65 (noted as expensive in our review ), making for an increase of 52% and 69%, respectively, for the latest series.

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Gaius Julius Mygdonius: the Parthian enslaved as a boy who wrote his story on his tombstone

Gaius Julius Mygdonius, a Parthian born free, was captured as a boy and sold into slavery in Roman territory. On his 1st-century BC tombstone in Ravenna he recorded his own story — from capture and enslavement to eventually obtaining Roman citizenship and freedom at the age of 50. His inscription is among the rarest direct personal accounts of slavery in ancient Rome.

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One of the many millions of people captured by the Romans and sold into slavery was a man who died in Ravenna in the 1st century BC. He wrote his own story, on his own tombstone, so that everyone who saw it would know what he endured and what he survived.

Gaius Julius Mygdonius, Parthian in origin. Born a free man and captured as a boy, given away to Roman territory. When helpful fate made me a Roman citizen, I began to save for when I became 50 years old. Ever since my youth I have wanted to reach my old age. Now, stone, receive me willingly; with you I shall be released from my worries.

Gaius Julius Mygdonius wasn’t the name he was given by his father, and it wasn’t the name he bore when the Romans captured him, nor was it the name he was called on his travels to Italy or during his life in slavery. At some point he became merely Mygdonius to his captors and his enslavers, which simply denotes him as a person from Mygdonia (Bulgaria and northern Greece). Mygdonius describes himself as a Parthian, which means he was from ancient Persia.

We know that he was captured as a child after experiencing the Roman war, and possibly a Roman siege. Eyewitness accounts of the Roman war terrify even across a few thousand years of distance. When the Romans breached the walls of a city, they killed, indiscriminately, everyone they came across, following their orders to “kill all they came across, sparing none, and to not start pillaging until the signal was given.” Bodies filled the streets. Not just of humans, but of dogs and horses cut in half, says the Greek historian Polybius, who was himself taken captive in a Roman assault. The soldiers raped and killed until they were exhausted.

We have two eyewitness accounts of the process of being taken as a captive by the Romans. Neither is by someone who was himself enslaved, because both were too noble for slavery. They are non-Roman witnesses to Roman war. The first comes from the works of Polybius, a Greek statesman from the fantastically named city of Megalopolis who ended up first a captive in Rome following the Third Macedonian War in 168 BC, and then a tutor to Scipio Aemilianus. When Scipio grew up and became the leading general in the third war against Carthage, he took Polybius along with him — rather against Polybius’ will — and Polybius eventually wrote an account of what he saw during this time. The second account comes from Josephus, a Jewish scholar and leader born Yosef ben Matittyahu in Galilee who fought against the Romans in the Jewish War and was taken captive after the brutal siege of Yodfat in 67 AD. He accompanied the emperors Vespasian and Titus for the rest of the war until the sack of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. Titus then took him back to Rome, where he developed a nice line in explaining Jewish history to the Romans and Roman history to the Jews.

Both Polybius and Josephus wrote accounts of the Roman process of taking and organizing their captives following a battle or siege and, although they were written 200 years apart, they are remarkably consistent. For a start, the life stories of both men provide useful examples that show that it was not local elites who were being enslaved by the Romans. Status protected people in captivity as it did in life, and no Macedonian or Bithynian leader ever ended up chained in a field in Sicily. The people who the Romans took captive and enslaved were the poor, the workers, and the already enslaved.

Mygdonius was one of these non-elites who survived the Roman onslaught. Still breathing when the signal came to stop the slaughter and start the pillage, Mygdonius became booty. Rounded up from his hiding place by a towering, battle-scarred soldier of Rome, he then waited to find out his fate. After hours, maybe days, of waiting the commander appeared to divide his captives; a tedious administrative job for a Roman general, but for Mygdonius and his fellow captives, perhaps the most important day of their lives. Would they be executed or enslaved? Would the general allow them to be ransomed, and was there anyone to ransom them?

Mygdonius was too lowly to be ransomed or taken into a relatively luxurious prison as a hostage, a fate open only to those blessed with noble blood. The choices facing him were death or slavery, and he was granted slavery. The Roman lawyers believed that slaves were called servi because generals saved ( servare ) them from death and so it was with Mygdonius. He was not given to the soldiers as a prize, or sent into public slavery, or kept as a treat by the general; he was simply sold there and then to the slave traders who followed the Roman army on even the smallest missions to take their booty and turn it into profit.

Both Polybius and Josephus offer detailed breakdowns of individual sieges and the aftermath in which the huddled, terrified inhabitants of cities were divided up into categories and sent off to new lives. Polybius describes the short and (relatively) uneventful siege of New Carthage (Cartagena, Spain) in 209 BC. Scipio took the city in a matter of days and without much struggle but still “as is the Roman custom” sent his troops to slaughter the population without mercy, dismembering not just the people but also their animals and burning their homes until they had the New Carthaginian general in custody. This worked pretty fast because, well, it would. Start cutting a person’s children and dogs in half in front of them and they do tend to despair.

Within a few hours Scipio had accepted the unconditional surrender of his New Carthaginian counterpart. The next day, he set to dividing up the booty, including the 10,000 prisoners. First, says Polybius, Scipio removed the political men with their wives and children and, asking them to look kindly on the Romans, he let them go free. This act of clemency was extended only to the city’s political elite.

The next group to be identified were the craftsmen or artisans, people like stonemasons and carpenters. These 2,000 men he made slaves of the Roman Republic, publicly owned to ply their trade for the good of their enemy. Then, Scipio picked out the strongest young men and condemned them to serve in the Roman navy as oarsmen. He also promised these men that if they helped him win the war and didn’t, y’know, die in hideous ancient naval battle or drown in the Mediterranean, he would free them when it was all over. All the rest of the prisoners, he handed over to the proper officials to be sold to the dealers who followed the armies. Polybius recorded these details because he believed Scipio to be uniquely merciful and moderate and to have generally demonstrated that the Romans were a great bunch of lads. The fates of the men, women, and children who were stripped, eyeballed, and sold on the auction block were of no more interest to him than the fates of the individual silver coins taken from the city’s treasury. They were merchandise now to be dealt with as property, not people.

As Cicero finished a minor campaign in Cilicia, he wrote a long letter to his bestie Atticus describing his adventures and finished up by saying that the only plunder he had kept for himself were the captives being sold at that moment. “As I write, I have 120,000 sesterces on the block,” he said, reducing all those poor people to cold cash and naked bodies.

The fates of the men, women, and children who were stripped, eyeballed, and sold on the auction block were of no more interest to [Scipio] than the fates of the individual silver coins taken from the city’s treasury.

Josephus describes pretty much the exact same process happening in Judea in 69 AD. There, the Roman generals were less interested in winning the goodwill of the population they had defeated and so Josephus claims that, in total, the Roman army took 97,000 people into slavery in the Jewish War, which is more people than can fit in Wembley Stadium. He describes Vespasian dividing up the captives at Tarichaea in Galilee, executing 1,200 of the elites, sending 6,000 of the strongest young men to dig Nero’s folly of a canal in Greece, and selling 30,400 people on the auction block.

These numbers blur. They are simply too big to conceptualize as individuals: 30,400 Mygdoniuses; 30,400 of your child, your mum, your brother; 30,400 human beings.

A year later, after the sack of Jerusalem, the Roman general decided to divide the captives up by age and looks: “He selected the tallest and most handsome of the youth and reserved them for the triumph; of the rest, those over 17 years of age he sent in chains to the works in Egypt, while multitudes were presented by Titus to the various provinces to be destroyed in the theaters by the sword or by wild beasts; those under seventeen were sold.” Very few of these would ever know freedom again; most would die hideously. Every one of them would be chained by the neck and ankle and wrist and led on nightmare journeys across deadly seas to foreign places. Every one of them would be beaten, at least as part of the process of making a free person realize that they were no longer a person, of turning a human into a slave.

Thus, with thousands of others, Mygdonius was chained at the neck and the leg, the cold metal resting heavily on his collarbone, chafing at his ankle, rubbing his skin raw and red. We see how enslaved people moved across the empire in the tombstone of Aulos Kapreilios Thimotheos, a dealer in slaves who had a line of eight chained men carved into his 2-meter-high memorial. This was the first step in Mygdonius’ transformation from a person into a slave, a life which hung between life and death. Maybe he thought about escaping, maybe he thought about suicide as he walked from the city to the sea, and then endured the Mediterranean crossing. Many, many men and women killed themselves on the boats to escape the violence and humiliation they knew lay ahead of them.

But Mygdonius always had hope. He says so himself. “Ever since I was young, I have wanted to reach my old age.” Captured as a child, Mygdonius clung to the dream of survival. Through his sale into imperial slavery, through the erasure of his old self and the creation of a new person: Mygdonius, the slave known only by his place of origin. Through his grinding years of enslavement, and his tireless work that finally led to his being freed. Through his third renaming, taking on Gaius Julius, the names of the people who enslaved him. Through it all, he remained a free Parthian in his heart. He saved and saved and worked and saved so that when he died, in his old age, his ashes could be interred in a huge sarcophagus of marble and the important facts of who he really was — free, freed, rejecting the slavery that sought to erase him — could be proclaimed forever to all who passed by.

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It feels like the whole world is on tenterhooks for the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 , if not because they are excited for a videogame then because it feels like Rockstar is propping up that part of the global economy not propped up by AI. But I'll tell you one guy who isn't going to play: Vitaly Milonov, a deputy of Russia's Duma from the United Russia party, who recently lambasted the game for carrying "the stench of Americanism."

In a recent chat with Russian radio station Govorit Moskva , Milonov gave Rockstar a piece of his mind: "GTA, from its very first version, has been about violence and hooliganism," Milonov told the station. "The last version doesn't differ at all from those before it, in terms of deviance."

What does he mean by "deviance"? Well, a little about Milonov: a member of Russia's ruling party, Milonov has long made a name for himself as a blowhard campaigner against gay rights and 'non-traditional values' in Russian society. He has, in the course of his career, spearheaded laws banning "gay propaganda," lost the plot over gay Finnish stamps , slung anti-semitic insults at Jewish political opponents, and called LGBT rights activists " non-human ". He is deputy chairman for the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children.

But despite his lifelong commitment to persecuting innocent people, Milonov actually doesn't seem worried that the GTA 6 hype will end up converting innocent Russians to lifestyles he disapproves of.

"I do not think that the game can strongly persuade anyone to adopt such a lifestyle," he continued, "if only because a normal person understands that it's about the world of the USA. There—violence, sex and drugs really reign. You immerse yourself in the stench of Americanism when you play GTA."

Milonov actually seems to welcome the regular ultraviolence of GTA's world, given that it only impacts Americans. "Any violence in GTA is violence against a potential enemy, so if they all tear each other apart—even just in GTA—it will only be for the better."

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