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Simon & Schuster
February 2010
On Sale: February 2, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 1416532064
EAN: 9781416532064
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The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most
famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating
true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration for
novelists, filmmakers, and revolutionaries for 2,000 years.
Starting with only seventy-four men, a gladiator named
Spartacus incited a rebellion that threatened Rome itself.
With his fellow gladiators, Spartacus built an army of
60,000 soldiers and controlled the southern Italian
countryside. A charismatic leader, he used religion to win
support. An ex-soldier in the Roman army, Spartacus excelled
in combat. He defeated nine Roman armies and kept Rome at
bay for two years before he was defeated. After his final
battle, 6,000 of his followers were captured and crucified
along Rome's main southern highway. The Spartacus War is the dramatic and factual account of one
of history's great rebellions. Spartacus was beaten by a
Roman general, Crassus, who had learned how to defeat an
insurgency. But the rebels were partly to blame for their
failure. Their army was large and often undisciplined; the
many ethnic groups within it frequently quarreled over
leadership. No single leader, not even Spartacus, could keep
them all in line. And when faced with a choice between
escaping to freedom and looting, the rebels chose wealth
over liberty, risking an eventual confrontation with Rome's
most powerful forces. The result of years of research, The Spartacus War is based
not only on written documents but also on archaeological
evidence, historical reconstruction, and the author's
extensive travels in the Italian countryside that Spartacus
once conquered.
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