SPARTACUS: How 70 Gladiators Sparked a 30,000–120,000 Revolt That Terrified Rome and Forced Crassus to Crucify 6,000
The Thracian gladiator SPARTACUS turned a kitchen-knife escape in 73–71 BCE into a mass rebellion that exposed the Roman Republic’s fragile foundations SPARTACUS is one of history’s most magnetic figures, a man whose life blurred the line between fact and legend. Between 73 and 71 BCE, a band of escaped gladiators and runaway slaves coalesced […]
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