Spartacus
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Spartacus | |
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![]() The Daith o Spartacus bi Hermann Vogel (1882) | |
Rebel sclave leader | |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 111 BC The aurie aroond the middlin coorse o the Strymon (the modren-day Struma river, Bulgarie) |
Dee'd | 71 BC Battlefield near Petelia (modren-day Strongoli, Calabrie, Italy) |
Naitionality | Thracian |
Militar service | |
Battles/wars | Third Servile War |
Spartacus (Greek: Σπάρτακος Spártakos; Laitin: Spartacus;[1] c. 111–71 BC) wis a Thracian gladiator wha, alang wi the Gauls Crixus, Gannicus, Castus, an Oenomaus, wis ane o the escaped sclave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major sclave uprisin against the Roman Republic.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "M. Tullius Cicero". Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 24 February 2013.