The Spartacus War
The Third Servile War, the only one of the slave revolts to directly threaten the Roman heartland of Italy, especially alarmed the Roman people due to the repeated successes of the rapidly growing band of escaped former slaves against Roman armies between 73 and 71 BC. The concerted military effort of a single commander, Marcus Licinius Crassus, finally crushed the rebellion, though the war continued to have indirect effects on Roman politics for years to come. The great slave revolts success is owed to Spartacus for unifying the constantly warring city states of Greece to come together and rebel against the Roman government. Spartacus was a roman gladiator from Thrace, an area known to romans for its fierce fighters, and for its alternation between alliance and rebellion. As a onetime allied soldier in Rome's service, Spartacus should have been a Roman success story. Instead, he had become the enemy within. A surprise attack on Cossinius starts the book off without a moment's warning, with the shouts of men, Cossinius, at rest in the moment after just leading an army of two thousand men never saw it coming, that being the army of runaway slaves, gladiators, and barbarians. Their leader was as cunning as he was strong, as experienced as he was fresh. He was Spartacus. The…show more content… In the middle of the novel the author has an assortment of pictures that correlate to the story that provide evidence to back up his facts. They also allow the reader to get a feel for what it was like to be a part of the rebellion. Overall the novel is a good source of information, although it can be dry at times, it is one of today's most historically accurate accounts of the Spartacus War written in
