Spartacus
In Our Time: History
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Slavery in the Roman Empire
Everything you've said is extremely cearand is tet is a lot of it contested? Or are we in the clear about all those facts? Probably the snake on the face is an anecdote that comes up with a lot of people in the ancient wrld, where er they are found with snakes or other interesting eagles and things like that. But apart from that, the em his background in thrace seems very likely. And certainly, obviously he was in em capua. There are one or two writers who say that his extreme military competence might have been accrued from having first been a mercenary in the roman army. But that's not so clear. Mary may be referred to the nature
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