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SPARTACUS
Roman, 109-71 BCE
“The defiant gladiators escape
So steeped in
Brief myth and legend is
the famous slave that
Bio historians still argue the school where they had
over the particulars
of his origins. However, most been taught not just how
assume that he was born
around 109 BCE in Thracia
(modern-day Bulgaria). He to kill, but how to kill to
enlisted in the Roman infantry
as a teenager and eventually
became a slave. He fought as a ensure the Roman mob
gladiator before inciting a slave
rebellion that led to the Third were entertained”
Servile War. He died during the
Battle of the Siler River.
