Spartacus
The story of the legendary gladiator turned rebel
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Show Notes
With just 70 men the gladiator slave Spartacus planned a revolt and escaped. Turning those 70 men into over 70,000. And in the process defeated multiple Roman armies and became one of the biggest thorns in the side the Roman Republic ever saw. This is the story of Spartacus.
Sources
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/plutarch/plutarchs-crassus/plutarch-on-spartacus/
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/appian/appian-spartacus/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Servile_War
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tod_des_Spartacus_by_Hermann_Vogel.jpg
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