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June 2010
On Sale: June 10, 2010
398 pages
ISBN: 1590203232
EAN: 9781590203231
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The name Spartacus is one familiar to most. He was the
Thracian gladiator who rose up from slavery in 73 B.C. to
defeat every Roman army sent to destroy him‹before his
defeat and crucifixion. Trained at the gladiatorial school,
Spartacus escaped. Joined by approximately seventy
followers, his army increased to allegedly 140,000 slaves. Today, his struggle is widely perceived as the fight for
freedom, but this hasn¹t always been the case; the ancient
Romans were embarrassed by Spartacus¹s victories over them;
the Greeks admired him; and others viewed his uprisings as
the embodiment of cruelty. In this fascinating and original work, Stothard retraces the
journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels, taking us
back to an ancient world which confronted similar issues to
those we face today‹the perils of religious belief; the
comfort of organized religion; the virtues of public life.
As he travels along the Spartacus road, Stothard breathes
new life into the story of Spartacus and the greatest slave
war in antiquity. He tells it, definitively, for our time.
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