This rebellion, interpreted by some as an example of oppressed people fighting for their freedom against a slave-owning oligarchy, has provided inspiration for many political thinkers, and has been featured in literature, television, and film. All sources agree that he was a former gladiator and an accomplished military leader. Little is known about him beyond the events of the war, and surviving historical accounts are sometimes contradictory. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who, along with Crixus, Gannicus, Castus, and Oenomaus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. ![]() Spartacus ( Greek: Σπάρτακος Spártakos Latin: Spartacus c. ![]() ![]() Near the Strymon river in present-day Bulgaria The Death of Spartacus by Hermann Vogel (1882)
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