![]() Three major novels were written about him and one of these, by the leftist writer Howard Fast, found its way into Kirk Douglas' hands. Though Roman histories tend, for obvious reasons, to downplay the importance of Spartacus, he has in modern times been cited as an inspiring figure to revolutionaries everywhere. Spartacus was killed and some 6,000 of his followers crucified along Appian Way between Capua and Rome. Eventually, the rebel slave was defeated by a Roman army commanded by M. Over the next two years, Spartacus and his ragtag army repeatedly defeated Roman armies and even threatened Rome itself. ![]() The uprising began when Spartacus, an enslaved bandit from Thrace (now part of Bulgaria), and about seventy other slaves escaped from a gladiator training school run by Lentulus Batiatus at Capua. From 73-71 B.C., the empire of Rome was shaken by a massive slave rebellion. ![]()
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