Spartacus ( Σπάρτακος)

About Spartacus

• Thracian (Indo-Euro) Gladiator
• Was a slave leader in the Third Servile War
• end slavery 

Slavery

• Taken captive at some point
• trained at a gladiator school called Ludus
• in 73 BC planned a plot of an escape

the escape

• Sparticus lead men aside a volcano
• Believed he had military training
• slaves lacked skills
• won out of tactics and strategy 

objective

• dont really know
• End slavery in Rome
• Desperse men to home country

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• Once served as warrior for Rome
• Later soled as slave to be a Gladiator

THe betrayal

• Took his army to sea
• Hitched a ride with pirates
• pirates betrayed him to turn them in
• Spartacus tried to make a deal
• betrayed again 

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• his army fled in the mountains 
• last battle 6,000 were captured
• Spartacus body was never found
• crucified the 6,000
• 71 BC