Krutka biography of Spartak
Todor Kharmandzhiev. The novel "Spartak is a Thracian from the Medov tribe", p. Gladiators were a category of slaves playing one of the most humiliating roles in ancient Rome. The spectacle of people who adorly in a battle on the stage was valued there very highly and was often arranged. These people were gladiators. They fought and died on large and small public arenas and even in private houses to give pleasure to the rich and poor Romans, enjoying this cruel spectacle.
It was considered a special art to win or die effectively, so the gladiators were trained in special schools. However, seventy people managed to escape and hide on the mountain of Vesuvius. Their leader was Spartak. According to information that came to us from that time, Spartak had a rich biography before the rebellion. He was a mercenary in Roman legions, but fled from there - and probably not in search of a calm life, for he later ended up with the Romans.
As a rule, the caught deserters were sentenced to death, but, apparently, thanks to the excellent physical data, Spartak was not executed, but made a gladiator. In this field, the manifestation of strength, courage, the ability to fight for slaves were ordinary days, so to speak, a professional life. Obviously, in Spartak, these qualities much exceeded the average level, because he not only survived, but also received freedom and became a teacher of fencing at a school in Kapua.
His new position was incomparably better than the previous one. Despite this, Spartak led the conspiracy of slaves, which testifies not only to his freedom, but also about the acute sense of social justice in relation to those whose fate he recently shared. From the preface of Stusto Gryncharov Anatoly Shalashov. The novel "The Great Gladiator", p. The young Thracian king of the Medov tribe conducts a stubborn and exhausting struggle for independence with the Romans.
For a long time, the exact calculation and a chain of accidents help the young man withstand the sly plans of Rome, but the forces are unequal, and Spartak falls into slavery. Annotation of the publishing house Rafaello Giovanioli. The novel "Spartak", p. Yasnaya PDF 13.7 MB - August - a copy from the library "Maxima Library" in the real book of the Italian writer Raphaello Giovanioli came to the largest Uprising of slaves of the GG.
Annotation of the publishing house Spartak's uprising, which is described in this book, took place more than two thousand years ago in Rome. Now, if we pronounce the word "Rome", we mean the famous city, the capital of Italy. But in those distant times, when Spartak's uprising took place, Rome was meant not only the city itself, but also a powerful state, which, according to the geographical concepts of that time, could be considered a world state.
Of course, the world Roman state did not immediately arise. The latest archaeological excavations in the city approximately confirm this dating. At first, Rome was a very small settlement of the semi -Derevensky type on the banks of the Tiber River.
But the city turned out to be located in a successful place, it quickly grew up, its population increased. The Romans turned out to be a very warlike, aggressive people. For the V-III centuries BC. As a result of these wars, the whole country obeyed Rome, and it turned into a large state. But the Romans were not satisfied with this: because of the island of Sicily, they began the struggle with another major state of the Mediterranean Sea-Carthage.
The city of Carthage was located on the northern coast of Africa in the area of the modern city of Tunisia, but its power extended to a number of large islands of the Mediterranean Sea and into a significant part of the territory of Spain from the preface of the Spartak uprising “The slaves, led by the charismatic gladiator Spartak, won a number of victories over the Romans, but two years later they suffered.
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