Spartacus

:This article refers to the Roman slave. For other uses see Spartacus (disambiguation).

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Spartacus was a Roman slave, who led a large slave uprising in what is now Italy, (then the Italian Peninsula), during 73 BC-71 BC. His army of escaped gladiators and slaves defeated many Roman legions, in what is known as the Third Servile War, one of the three slave rebellions of ancient Rome. This war was also known as the "Gladiator War".

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Different sources claim that Spartacus was either a captured Thracian soldier, or a mutineer who had served in the Roman Army in Macedonia. One of the most common theories is that Spartacus fought in the Roman Army as an auxiliary. The auxiliary forces were made up entirely of men from captured lands, who willingly fought for the Romans. Spartacus deserted the army, was outlawed, captured, sold into slavery, and trained at the gladiatorial school of Batiatus, owned by Lentulus Batiatus, in Capua. He took his ideas from Blossius of Cumae, which can be summarized as: "the last will be the first (and vice versa)." (This is also a frequent Biblical quote of Jesus Christ, made early in the next century after Spartacus.)

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