The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth making in his own time and of movie making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system.
Spartacus, a slave trained as a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic.Political figures in Rome plot to aid or hinder him for their own purposes.
Presents a graphic biography of Spartacus, and chronicles early Rome and the Roman Republic, Roman expansion, gladiators, and Spartacus's uprising which nearly brought down Rome.
