Biography spartacus

Spartacus was born in Thrace, an area where the modern-day Balkans states, including Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece, are located. Though little is known about Spartacus’ early life, historians believe he may once have served in the Romanarmy.

Spartacus was sold into slavery, perhaps due to rebellion against or desertion from the army. He was sent to the gladiatorial training school in Capua in 73 B.C.E. Soon after, he escaped with about 70 other gladiators and gathered his followers on nearby Mount Vesuvius. Gradually, more escaped slaves joined their ranks. It is estimated that there were 90, to , men in all. tillsammans they used guerrillatactics to kamp off Roman attacks.

After about a year, the group mobilized and started traveling throughout the långnovell Empire. They marched as far north as Gaul (modern-day France). Rome initially considered the revolt a nuisance. With each of Spartacus’ victories, however, Roman leaders started to take the group more seriously. In 71 B.C

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Spartacus

"possessed not only of great courage and strength, but also in sagacity and culture superior to his fortune"

Plutarch,(VIII.2)

A Thracian by birth who had been sold as a slave to a gladiatorial school in Capua, Spartacus was one of seventy-eight men who escaped and took refuge in the caldera of Mt. Vesuvius (Plutarch, Life of Crassus,VIII.2). bygd 72 BC, as other fugitive slaves and freedmen joined, they grew to an army of seventy thousand (Appian, Civil Wars, I). Defeating the legions sent against them, Spartacus and his men fought their way to Cisapline Gaul, from where they intended to disperse to their homelands. But then, inexplicitly, they marched south again for more plunder. The Senate, which had dismissed the threat as no more than the brigandage of gladiators and slaves, appointed Marcus Licinius Crassus (reputedly the richest man in Rome and later, a member of the First Triumvirate) to put down what was regarded as an insurrection that now h

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Spartacus (died 71 BC)

Spartacus  ©Roman slave and gladiator, and leader of a famous slave revolt. He has become a modern-day inspirational figure.

Little is known of the early years of Spartacus. He is thought to have been born in Thrace (modern day Balkan region) and it has been suggested he was in the Roman army. He was sold into slavery and trained at the gladiatorial school in Capua, north of Naples.

Spartacus escaped in 73 BC and took refuge on nearby Mount Vesuvius, where large numbers of other escaped slaves joined him. Their insurrection came to be known as the Third Servile War, or the Gladiators’ War. Leading his army of runaway slaves, which has been estimated to have reached , men, Spartacus defeated a series of Roman attacks using tactics which would now be called guerrilla warfare.

In 72 BC Spartacus and his army marched north towards Gaul (the Roman term for a region covering France, the Low Countries and northern Italy). They fought off a series of attac