Spartacus
Thracian gladiator who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic · Historical Figures · Lived 103 BC to 71 BC · aged 32
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Something wrong?A Thracian gladiator who turned a breakout from a training school near Capua into the largest slave rebellion Rome ever faced - 70,000 strong at its height, winning battle after battle against legions until Crassus cornered them in 71 BC.
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Edwin Forrest as Spartacus
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John McCullough as Spartacus
Lodovico Pogliaghi - Escape of Spartacus and his fellowmen, revolt of Capua 73 BC asi_(5976789321).jpg?width=1200)
San Diego Comic-Con 2011 - Spartacus photo op (Starz booth) (5976789321)_(5977353438).jpg?width=1200)
San Diego Comic-Con 2011 - Spartacus photo op (Starz booth) (5977353438)In their own words 10
, I'd rather be here, a free man among brothers, facing a long march and a hard fight, than the richest citizen in Rome: fat with food he didn't work for, and surrounded by slaves.
We've traveled a long ways together. We've fought many battles and won many victories. Now, instead of taking ships to our homes across the sea, we must fight again once more.
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.
About this person
Born near the Strymon river in Thrace, possibly from the Maedi tribe, he served as a Roman soldier before enslavement landed him in the gladiatorial arena. In 73 BC he and about 70 others smashed out of their school and began gathering the enslaved and dispossessed across southern Italy. What followed were repeated tactical victories that shouldn't have been possible - former slaves and gladiators, barely trained, breaking trained Roman units. The revolt swelled to an estimated 70,000. Crassus finally brought the full weight of the Republic down in 71 BC. Spartacus was presumed killed in the final battle, though no one ever found his body. Six thousand captured rebels were crucified along the Appian Way. Whether he wanted only escape or something larger remains unclear, but the name stuck: a symbol of resistance that echoed through revolutions centuries later.
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