1. 3rd Slave War/Spartacus Revolt (73-71 BCE)
Slave leaders:
Spartacus (Thracian)
Crixus (Gaul): killed at Mt Garganus w breakaway army
Oenomaus (Gaul): killed early
Gannicus (Gaul): killed near Rhegium while leading a breakaway army
Castus (Gaul): killed near Rhegium while leading a breakaway army
Ethnic groups: Germans, Gauls (Marius’ wars), Thracians
Also: ethnic groups of Asia Minor (Mithradatic Wars 80s & 70s), Greeks (Sulla’s sack of Athens in 86)…

2. 19th century Spartacus (Edwin Forrest)

3. Spartacus, the ballet (1956)

4. 20th century Spartacus

5. 21st century Spartacus

6. Roman generals:
73 (war is praetorian)
Claudius Glaber (praetor?): humiliated on Vesuvius by 74 men + some vines
P Varinius (praetor: enhanced imperium): eventually loses camp, battle, and horse
L Furius (legatus): defeated along with a cavalry force
L Cossinus (praetor? tribune?): almost caught in bath
72 (war declared consular)
Lucius Gellius Publicola (consul): wins and then loses
Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (consul): defeated in the Apennines
C. Cassius Longinus (proconsul): defeated at Mutina)
72-71
M. Licinius Crassus (praetor; enhanced imperium)
Mummius: defeated with 2 legions, which are then decimated
+ Lucullus, Pompey

9. The Augustan Capuan amphitheatre: on the same site and retains some features of the older amphitheatre

10. Gladiator cells in Pompeii

11. Opening phase of the war from the initial breakout from Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia/Batiatus’s ludus

12. Mt. Vesuvius

13. Stage II: movement from Vesuvius

14. Spartacus War movement according to Appian

15. Marcus Licinius Crassus
c BCE

16. Initial movement of Crassus