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50. Rome: A Slave Society

Empire

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Spartacus and the Gladiator Training Camp

Who is Spartacus? Thracian? A bull? A gary in the modern... I am spunked. We know rather less than what Kurt Douglas would have liked us to imagine. It's a good story, though. You would think that, Willie. He's got this pre-slavery wife. And of course, as with the Sicilian rebellions, one of the things that often gets mobilized here is a kind of religious dynamic. The sense of divine power can help you get human power.

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