![]() The Senate, which previously did not believe in the seriousness of the problem, finally decided to intervene. In subsequent skirmishes, Spartacus defeated the praetor Varinius himself, who informed the senate about the problems in suppressing the rebellion and sent requests for more funds to fight the slaves. This action in the night allowed to surround Roman troops, shock them and surprise them with a victorious attack from the back. When the Romans were close to the encampment with around 3,000 soldiers, Spartacus told his companions to make rope ladders from the climbers, thanks to which they quickly got to the bottom of the volcano. The Roman commander was Claudius Glaber, sent by praetor Publius Varinius, whom the Senate commissioned this operation. The Senate finally decided to send a regular army against the rebels. They became the terror of all the rich Romans nearby. Vesuvius turned into a fortress that sheltered 10 000 people. The initial, small group of insurgents grew quickly, powered by escapes from neighbouring estates. The slaves gathered on Mount Vesuvius chose – Crixus and Oinomaos – to be the chiefs. It is said that when he was first brought to Rome to be sold, a serpent was seen coiled about his face as he slept, and his wife, who was of the same tribe as Spartacus, a prophetess, and subject to visitations of the Dionysiac frenzy, declared it the sign of a great and formidable power which would attend him to a fortunate issuee.Īfter initially plundering the fertile farms of Campania, Spartacus led his gradually expanding force of fugitive slaves to Mount Vesuvius, where he camped in its crater and waited for the Romans to besiege it. We also know the prophecy that Plutarch gave us: After his enslavement, she was also sold as a slave girl. Plutarch mentions that Spartacus had a wife, from the same tribe. The name “Spartakiad”, so mass form of sporting events, comes from his name. There, for killing another gladiator, he was transferred to Lentulus Batiatus’ school, a very difficult and high-security one. Spartacus, as an excellent gladiator, for some time served as a fencing teacher there, he taught valuable “pieces” of this fight. ![]() However, later, as a result of his bad behaviour and lack of discipline he was sent to the gladiator school in Capua (the west coast of the Apennine Peninsula). Spartacus initially served in the Roman army as a Thracian mercenary. Thrace located on the Balkan Peninsula was known for a well-trained infantry using sickle swords. He probably came from Thrace 1, a country that was still independent (then Thrace would become one of the provinces of Rome), but already exposed to Rome’s retaliatory actions. Spartacus was a man of strong character and intelligence. Gladiators were often prisoners of war or slaves, but sometimes they were recruited from former soldiers. Rome’s contacts with Africa and Far East.
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