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Spartacus (Ancient Greek: Σπάρτακος, romanized: Spártakos; Latin: Spartacus; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
The Third Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic known as the Servile Wars. This third rebellion was the only one that directly threatened the Roman heartland of Italy. It was particularly alarming to Rome because its military ...
A gladiator (Latin: gladiator ' swordsman ', from Latin gladius 'sword') was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their lives and their legal and social standing by ...
Washington's Macrinus, an enslaved person-turned-slave owner, plays a ruthless character who is “misunderstood,” quipped the Training Day star at the screening. “He's a product of his ...
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia [1] (also called Lentulus Batiatus by Plutarch) [2] was the Roman owner of a gladiatorial school in ancient Capua. It was from this school that, in 73 BC, the Thracian slave Spartacus and about 70 to 78 followers escaped. The breakout led to the slave rebellion known as the Third Servile War (73–71 BC). [3]
Just think of how imperious Crowe was in Ridley Scott’s swords-and-sandals classic, all grizzled, gravel-voiced machismo as the soldier who becomes a slave who becomes the saviour of Rome.
‘Gladiator 2’ Is the Definition of Glorious Excess Paramount Pictures Let’s just get this out of the way: Paul Mescal is a very good actor. He may even become a major movie star someday.
The use of slave labour was extensive, especially in agriculture." [94] [95] The Anti-Slavery Society estimated there were 2 million slaves in Ethiopia in the early 1930s out of an estimated population of 8 to 16 million. [96] Slave labour in East Africa was drawn from the Zanj, Bantu peoples that lived along the East African coast.