Schiavone, Aldo.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Part of the series Revealing antiquity 19;Revealing antiquity 19.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-171) and index.
• This book was originally published as Spartaco … 2011 by Giulio Einaudi Editore SpA, Torino –Title page verso.
• Translator’s Note — The Fugitive — The Commander — The Loser.
• The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth making in his own time and of movie making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system.
• Translated from Italian.

Subjects:

• Spartacus, -71 B. C.
• Slaves — Rome — Biography.
• Gladiators — Rome — Biography.
• Soldiers — Rome — Biography.
• Rome — History — Servile Wars, 135-71 B.C.
• Slave insurrections — Rome.

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