The gladiators decided to "strike for their own freedom rather than for the amusement of spectators," according to the Roman historian Appian. MANY OF us have heard the name Spartacus, if only because ...

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt with an army numbering in the tens of thousands. He defeated Roman forces over half a dozen times, marching his people up and down the Italian ...

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Spartacus is the most famous gladiator—and probably the most famous slave—in history, and yet in many ways we really know very little about him. From 73 to 71 B.C. he led a slave revolt in Italy, ...