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Spartacus: The Gladiator
Ben Kane
St. Martin's Press
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
464 pages
ISBN: 1250001161
EAN: 9781250001160
Kindle: B006ZL9IEM
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy Historical
Long the stuff of legends, Spartacus is known to most
modern readers through the classic Kubrick film version of
Howard Fast's novel. Now bestselling historical novelist
Ben Kane returns to the source material and presents a
lively and compelling new vision of the man who was
SpartacusRoman army auxillary, slave, gladiator and
ultimately the leader of an army of slaves who nearly
brought Rome to its knees. Ben Kane's brilliant novel
begins in the Thracian village to which Spartacus has
returned after escaping from life as an auxiliary in the R
oman army. Jealous of his attachment to Ariadne, a
Dionysian priestess, the Thracian king betrays Spartacus
to the Romans who take him, along with Ariadne, into
captivity and to the school of gladiators at Capua.
Against the background of the unbelievable brutality of
gladiatorial life, Spartacus and Crixus the Gaul plan the
audacious overthrow of their Roman masters. They escape
and flee to Vesuvius, where they recruit and train an army
of escaped slaves that will have to face the conquerors of
the known world, the most successful deadly army in all of
history in a battle that will set in motion the legend
that is Spartacus.
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