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In seventy two B.C., within the center of Rome's Mediterranean empire, a slave named Spartacus ignited some of the most violent episodes of slave resistance within the heritage of the Roman Empire - certainly on the planet annals of slavery. This quantity organizes unique translations of eighty Greek and Latin assets into topical chapters that examine the day-by-day lives of slaves informed as gladiators and those that worked on farms in Italy and Sicily, together with bills of revolts that preceded and expected that of Spartacus. In a delicately crafted introductory essay, Shaw locations Spartacus within the broader context of first and moment century B.C. Rome, Italy and Sicily and explains why his tale remains to be a well-liked image of uprising at the present time. the amount additionally features a word list, chronology, chosen bibliography, 3 maps, an annotated record of historical writers, and questions for consideration.

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