Spartacus has been the icon of freedom ever since his great endeavour of courage. His story has inspired and brought hope of equality to many minds.
The origin of Spartacus
Spartacus came from the small town of Thrace, which is not modern day Bulgaria. He was born in around 100bc. Spartacus joined the roman army but soon fled an attack when he was asked to kill his own people.
Becoming a Gladiator
As running and abandoning your own army was one of the worst crimes you could ever commit, he was sent to one of the capital gladiator schools were very brutal. The gladiators were practically beaten into fighting machines; Spartacus was one of the best gladiators. Marcus Crasis owned the Gladiator school …show more content…
130 men were too frightened to leave.
Spartacus would have to eat, sleep and train with 200 other men. Crixus was Spartacus’s partner of sparring and they quickly became friends. There would have been a great bond between the 200 gladiators and so they made a plan to revolt and escape Rome.
They killed, stole food and fled into the country side- word soon gets out of the revolution. They need a leader to face off Rome, Spartacus. 70 will become 100,200,1000,10,000. They steal weapons from the guards so that they are armed.
Claudius Glabor
The roman army isn’t that worried about the Gladiator army and don’t go out to attack the rebels for quite a long time.
They begin to take them seriously, when the Romans hear about more rebellions and so send out Claudius Glabor, a solider with few qualifications and only about 3000 men. The proper Roman army is busy fighting real wars in Spain and Greece. The gladiator army was far up the hill of Vesuvius, with only one narrow path up to the top. The Romans could only really come up about 2 by 2 and Spartacus on his own could easily take them on like …show more content…
As Claudius and his men sleep, Spartacus orders his men to make rope from the vegetation on the hill and abseil down. They then sneaked up to the sleeping army and attacked from all angles, and killed Claudius.
Borinius
Rome realises that Claudius and his army isn’t coming back and so they decide to send Borinius along with 4000 men. Sparticus is surrounded by them, but as night falls he came up with yet another ingenious plan. He ordered the gladiator army to take the dead corpses and dress them with clothes and weapons. They then tied the corpses up on posts to give the effect of a full scale rebel army standing, ready to fight. As dawn broke Borinius and his army attack the corpses as the real slaves and gladiators slipped away.
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