1st-Century BC Conflicts - Roman Conquest of Britain, Catiline, Quintus Sertorius, Third Servile War, Germanic Wars, Caesar's Civil War (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Roman conquest of Britain, Catiline, Quintus Sertorius, Third Servile War, Germanic Wars, Caesar's Civil War, Battle of Carrhae, Final War of the Roman Republic, Liberators' civil war, Social War, Sicilian revolt, Sertorian War, Sulla's first civil war, Battle of Zhizhi, Battle of Mount Gindarus, Antony's Parthian War, Battle of the Cilician Gates, Sulla's second civil war, Battle of Mutina, Battle of Vosges, Battle of Nicopolis, Battle of Zela, Siege of Alexandria, Battle of Jushi, Perusine War, Sino-Xiongnu War, Battle of Korakesion, Battle of the Lupia River. Excerpt: The Third Servile War (73-71 BC), also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last of a series of unrelated and unsuccessful slave rebellions against the Roman Republic, known collectively as the Roman Servile Wars. The Third Servile War was the only one to directly threaten the Roman heartland of Italy and was doubly alarming to the Roman people due to the repeated successes of the rapidly growing band of rebel slaves against the Roman army between 73 and 71 BC. The rebellion was finally crushed through the concentrated military effort of a single commander, Marcus Licinius Crassus, although the rebellion continued to have indirect effects on Roman politics for years to come. Between 73 and 71 BC, a band of escaped slaves-originally a small cadre of about 78 escaped gladiators which grew into a band of over 120,000 men, women and children-wandered throughout and raided Italy with relative impunity under the guidance of several leaders, including the famous gladiator-general Spartacus. The able-bodied adults of this band were a surprisingly effective armed force that repeatedly showed they could withstand the Roman military, from the local Campanian patrols, to the Roman militia, and to trained Roman legions under con...