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Spartacus (Greek: Σπάρτακος, translit. Spártakos; Latin: Spartacus; c.103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Historical accounts of his life come primarily from Plutarch and Appian, who wrote more than a ...
The Thracians (/ ˈθreɪʃənz /; Ancient Greek: Θρᾷκες, romanized:Thrāikes; Latin: Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe and north-western Anatolia in antiquity. [ 1 ][ 2 ] They primarily resided on the territories of modern-day Bulgaria, Romania, northern Greece and north-western ...
The ancient Greeks employed the term "Thrace" to refer to all of the territory which lay north of Thessaly inhabited by the Thracians, [9] a region which "had no definite boundaries" and to which other regions (like Macedonia and even Scythia) were added. [10] In one ancient Greek source, the very Earth is divided into "Asia, Libya, Europa and ...
Spartacus. Portrayed by Andy Whitfield in Blood and Sand, Liam McIntyre in Vengeance and War of the Damned. A Thracian who becomes a gladiator in the ludus of Lentulus Batiatus. Spartacus disobeys an order by legatus Gaius Claudius Glaber, who refused to send his men to protect Spartacus' village. Spartacus' wife Sura is condemned to slavery ...
Saii / Saioi / Saianes (Saians) - Thracian tribe that inhabited Thassos island before Phoenician and Greek colonization. Samothraci / Samothrakoi - Thracian tribe that lived in the island of Samothrace after the Pelasgians and before the Greeks that came from Samos island. Sapaei, [43] close to Abdera, ruled Thrace after the Odrysians.
Peirous, a Thracian war leader [5] killed by Thoas the Aetolian. Rhesus of Thrace, died in the Trojan war [6] Cisseus, father of Theano, the wife of Antenor. Diomedes of Thrace, Giant that ruled over the Bistones. Lycurgus, of the Edoni. Oeagrus, father of Orpheus and Linus. Orpheus [7] of the Cicones.
The name Thracians itself seems to be a Greek exonym and we have no way of knowing what the Thracians called themselves. [2] Also certain tribes mentioned by Homer are not indeed historical. Agrianes [3] Apsynthii [4] Astae, [5] [6] they appear in the 2nd century BC to 1st century BC; Beni [7] Bessi [8] Bisaltae [9] Bistones [10]
The Getae (/ ˈdʒiːtiː, ˈɡiːtiː / JEE-tee, GHEE-tee) or Gets (/ dʒɛts, ɡɛts / JETS, GHETS; Ancient Greek: Γέται, singular Γέτης) were a Thracian -related [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] tribe that once inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube, in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania.