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Position:Home>History> Help on Spartacus???????Question: Help on Spartacus!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I have to do a project on Spartacus, I have to find a situation he was in and say what I think he heard, saw, thought, feel and did!. The thing is I'm not sure what situations are real!. Everything I find about spartacus seems to be unreliable!. Any help!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Spartacus, I am assumnig the gladiatior rebel!? Well he was a rebel leader!. He was a Greek slave and orginially a sodleir he later became a Gladiator becuas he was so strong!. He used a Thracian gladiator style using a buckler short shield and a shrot sword or spear!. I can give you mroe info but I don't think it's neccesary!. What I would write about, is that what he feels of what he is doing!. His ambitions and the army of slaves he has!. Talk about his fears of what would happened!. He is simialr to Maximus from Gladiator except write more about him ahting the slavery he is in and desiring freedom etc!. He had military experience as i said he was a soldier before, but msot of the slaves who were his sodliers did not!. He had successes agaisnt the Roman army, write about his miltary feats and how he tricked an inexperienced Roman Praetor sent by the Senate which helped him to escape and later gain an army of 140,000 slaves!. Write about how hed eefated to Roman consuls but also had a follwoing of slave women, chidlren and old men which would of dragged him behind then the speed he could of tarvelled with jsut men!. Then write about how he faced Pompey and Crassus!. Two of the msot known and remarkable leaders in Rome during Caesar's time!. Jsut write about how he wants to have freedom and wnats to rescue the slaves etc and tried to fight the Romans and stuff!.Www@QuestionHome@Com go here for some prelim info: http://www!.history!.com/encyclopedia!.do!?a!.!.!. or buy this DVD: http://store!.aetv!.com/html/product/index!.!.!. and go here: http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Spartacus and be sure to go to the library or use Worldcat and interlibrary loan to read some the wikipedia sources!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Spartacus' revolt is mentioned in the ancient historian, Plutarch's "Life of Crassus", the Roman general who hunted him down!. Other then broad descriptions of the revolt, you will find that most of the accounts are works of fiction and conjecture!.Www@QuestionHome@Com GOOGLE IT Www@QuestionHome@Com |