Who Was the Real Spartacus?
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Dee
At age 12 for my junior high school's speech contest i recited Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua. It was a mid-19th century fictional speech imagining what the historical person might have said, written by a teenaged college student, Elijah Kellogg, so it was an amateurish work. I only recited it because i couldn't find a poem or speech i really liked that was the right length for the contest, and my mother, who once taught in one-room schools in Kentucky, knew it by heart and taught it to me. When i was 9, i'd also watched the movie with Kirk Douglas and was deeply moved by it. But i rightly felt that the speech wasn't the right choice for me to recite.
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At age 12 for my junior high school's speech contest i recited Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua. It was a mid-19th century fictional speech imagining what the historical person might have said, written by a teenaged college student, Elijah Kellogg, so it was an amateurish work. I only recited it because i couldn't find a poem or speech i really liked that was the right length for the contest, and my mother, who once taught in one-room schools in Kentucky, knew it by heart and taught it to me. When i was 9, i'd also watched the movie with Kirk Douglas and was deeply moved by it. But i rightly felt that the speech wasn't the right choice for me to recite.
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joonas
There is another intepretation. It is that you are repeating is piece of Roman fiction, they liked dramatisation and propacanda above truth.
Spatacus was a high ranking Roman centurio who was condemned to be gladiator for whatever reason. That would explain his skills in military organisation.
He was a Thrax-style gladiation, and this got mixed intentionally or unintentionally with his ethnicity.
(Needless to say this is impossible to proof and we will likely newer know if amount of truth in the roman story.
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There is another intepretation. It is that you are repeating is piece of Roman fiction, they liked dramatisation and propacanda above truth.
Spatacus was a high ranking Roman centurio who was condemned to be gladiator for whatever reason. That would explain his skills in military organisation.
He was a Thrax-style gladiation, and this got mixed intentionally or unintentionally with his ethnicity.
(Needless to say this is impossible to proof and we will likely newer know if amount of truth in the roman story.
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SNP1999
It is a modern myth that Spartacus and his former slave followers wanted to abolish slavery. Slavery was a fact of life in antiquity and freed slaves invariably bought their own after their manumition, at least as soon as they could afford it. Spartacus actually held gladiatorial combats between captured Roman soldiers, usually to the death. Had he and his army ever gained true freedom to settle down somewhere, the ex-slaves would have got on with their lives - with their slaves doing the hard work.
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It is a modern myth that Spartacus and his former slave followers wanted to abolish slavery. Slavery was a fact of life in antiquity and freed slaves invariably bought their own after their manumition, at least as soon as they could afford it. Spartacus actually held gladiatorial combats between captured Roman soldiers, usually to the death. Had he and his army ever gained true freedom to settle down somewhere, the ex-slaves would have got on with their lives - with their slaves doing the hard work.
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ken
Stars did a video series about Spartacus and while it is a work of fiction it did portray a few events correctly but trying to figure out who the man was first you need to separate fact from fiction and that is not easy and it would be slightly easier to separate fact from fiction and myth from folklore concerning Vampires, than to know anything more about the man who the Romans named Spartacus. His real life name is but just one thing about the man that is lost to history.
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Stars did a video series about Spartacus and while it is a work of fiction it did portray a few events correctly but trying to figure out who the man was first you need to separate fact from fiction and that is not easy and it would be slightly easier to separate fact from fiction and myth from folklore concerning Vampires, than to know anything more about the man who the Romans named Spartacus. His real life name is but just one thing about the man that is lost to history.
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Perjaru
Various chunks of? Trachia?
Are you out of your mind?
Trachia was the second biggest empire of the time, and the second best after ROMAN empire!
Learn some history before spreading fake infos!
It was not in South Eastern Europe! It was biggest than EUROPE TODAY!
Did you read 2-3 pages of a book and now you are trying to share history?
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Various chunks of? Trachia?
Are you out of your mind?
Trachia was the second biggest empire of the time, and the second best after ROMAN empire!
Learn some history before spreading fake infos!
It was not in South Eastern Europe! It was biggest than EUROPE TODAY!
Did you read 2-3 pages of a book and now you are trying to share history?
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Brett
Spartacus was a figure of his brutal times. because he revolted against Imperial Rome's oppression. as a freed man. who freed himself, and died a freedman's death. if. he died, as his body wasn't found. he WAS a heroic figure. Most great figures of history had their less savory sides. Very few pristine, squeaky clean notables in history.
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Spartacus was a figure of his brutal times. because he revolted against Imperial Rome's oppression. as a freed man. who freed himself, and died a freedman's death. if. he died, as his body wasn't found. he WAS a heroic figure. Most great figures of history had their less savory sides. Very few pristine, squeaky clean notables in history.
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Edwin
This is like the BLM movement, the concept was nice but their execution was based on pure personal gain. That is why those movement are irritating, they want to get their bad deads congratulated just because they used an end to slavery movement that had nothing to do with what they were actually doing with their freedom
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This is like the BLM movement, the concept was nice but their execution was based on pure personal gain. That is why those movement are irritating, they want to get their bad deads congratulated just because they used an end to slavery movement that had nothing to do with what they were actually doing with their freedom
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Sleazy
I watch Spartacus: B&S - War of the Damned atleast once every quarter of the year along with the sopranos, dexter, breaking bad, and Oz. Holy hell is Spartacus one of the most underrated series of the past 30 years. Oh and its pronounced like On-uh-May-us not ohnamouse
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I watch Spartacus: B&S - War of the Damned atleast once every quarter of the year along with the sopranos, dexter, breaking bad, and Oz. Holy hell is Spartacus one of the most underrated series of the past 30 years. Oh and its pronounced like On-uh-May-us not ohnamouse
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catmandu1957
Karma. Crassus was rewarded for his brutal treatment his soldiers and the defeated slaves by later losing a battle to make him richer to a much smaller force of Parthians in Asia Minor who poured melted gold down his throat to execute him.
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Karma. Crassus was rewarded for his brutal treatment his soldiers and the defeated slaves by later losing a battle to make him richer to a much smaller force of Parthians in Asia Minor who poured melted gold down his throat to execute him.
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Brent
This needs more conscious diembowelment scenes like Outlaw King, and then strangle the gladiator with a noose made out of the warm freshly carved out small intestine. If you can't eat humans, then why are they made of meat?
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This needs more conscious diembowelment scenes like Outlaw King, and then strangle the gladiator with a noose made out of the warm freshly carved out small intestine. If you can't eat humans, then why are they made of meat?
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magdcs
Crossing the alps would have meant a death sentence for many. Not all were former gladiators. I hope his choice was made to preserve as many as possible.
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Crossing the alps would have meant a death sentence for many. Not all were former gladiators. I hope his choice was made to preserve as many as possible.
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Stefan
If we strive for historic accuracy then we should call him with his real name. Sparotok/os. Spartacus is just latinised version of his real name.
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If we strive for historic accuracy then we should call him with his real name. Sparotok/os. Spartacus is just latinised version of his real name.
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hafadude69
I'm surprised they haven't made a movie about Toussaint Louverture and his battle for freedom. I think that would make a great story.
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I'm surprised they haven't made a movie about Toussaint Louverture and his battle for freedom. I think that would make a great story.
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Robd1
Its been said Marcus Crassus was later was captured and had molten gold poured into his mouth! Ironic for the richest man in rome to die!
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Its been said Marcus Crassus was later was captured and had molten gold poured into his mouth! Ironic for the richest man in rome to die!
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gurra63able
When the figure Caesar entered the season 3 it turned the series for the worse, that character was predictable and useless.
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When the figure Caesar entered the season 3 it turned the series for the worse, that character was predictable and useless.
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Roger
I've read an Awful lot about Spartacus & Rome, & some of your Facts are a lot closer to Fiction you might want to check them out.
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I've read an Awful lot about Spartacus & Rome, & some of your Facts are a lot closer to Fiction you might want to check them out.
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Tom
Why show clips from the film 300, that was about the Spartan Army at Thermopylae, Nothing to do with Spartacus the Gladiator/Slave.
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Why show clips from the film 300, that was about the Spartan Army at Thermopylae, Nothing to do with Spartacus the Gladiator/Slave.
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Kat
RIP Andy Whitfield, you played an awesome (and gorgeous) Spartacus, Liam didn't do a bad job after but he was no Andy Whitfield!
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RIP Andy Whitfield, you played an awesome (and gorgeous) Spartacus, Liam didn't do a bad job after but he was no Andy Whitfield!
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joperhop
spartacus body was never found, i like to think he got away, and lived the remainder of his life away from Rome, and free.
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spartacus body was never found, i like to think he got away, and lived the remainder of his life away from Rome, and free.
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Godfrey
From the information that I received earlier, Spartacus was an Israelite. The Israelites were taken into slavery to Europe.
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From the information that I received earlier, Spartacus was an Israelite. The Israelites were taken into slavery to Europe.
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