Revolt of Spartacus
From 73 BCE to 71 BCE
WHO IS SPARTACUS?
- Tracian Gladiator
- Was originally a mercenary
WHY REVOLT? WHY WAS THIS REVOLT VIEWED AS INSIGNIFICANT?
He sought to escape
They were tired of being treated they the way they were
Because it was Roman slaves
Because slave revolts happened before
THIRD SERVILE WAR
- Stared with the besiege on Spartacus' First camp
- Spartacus raids a Praetors camp
- Lucius Gellius Publicola and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus are sent after Spartacus
- Marcus Licinius Crassus is sent to finish the war
- Mummius is sent by Crassus to take Spartacus from behind
- Spartacus is forced though Lucania
- Spartacus tries to hire Cilician Pirates
- Spartacus is put under Seige
- Pompey is told by the Senete
- Spartacus sends some of his forces towards the mountains west of Petelia
- Discipline in Spartacus' forces break apart
- Spartacus gathers all his forces for his last stand
SPARTACUS' DEATH AND THE AFTER EFFECTS
- Spartacus died in the battle at the the territory of now day Senerchia
- His body was never found
- 6,000 of the survivors were crucified along the Appian Way
- While another slave revolt happened, Rome feared another