Spartacus
In Our Time: History
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What Are They Thinking?
Sources seem to describe them as spectacular victories. They often have little, sort of like tricks, cause they're trying to account for how how swartcus was so successful. He put corpses on stakes and lit fires, so that te the romans thought they were still in their camp. And meanwhile, they'd sort of snuck off. So this kind of trickery is sot are constant in the accounts of the battles. Yeell, he's like a greek hero, pluto, or the cunning slave. That's all you the slaves don't have fire power, but they thesot mari. What are they thinking? How are they working out what to do
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