What associations in a person when he hears the word "Rome"?It Vatican, the Coliseum, triumphal arches and aqueducts, and the victorious legions of skilled Thais.It is the capital of the empire, where the people are demanding bread and circuses, where the rulers divide their enemies and dominate them.In this abode of vice and power, might and majesty were many people who influenced history.Among them, Gaius Julius Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Pliny and Cato, Fulvia and gladiator Spartacus.
Spartak can rightly be considered the most famous gladiator in the world.It was a great warrior who entertained the crowd yawning and aristocracy of ancient Rome.Every minute of the fight could be the last in his life.But he stood to pick up a huge empire to fight.In a holy war against class inequality, against poverty and slavery, against the fact that a handful of senators decide the fate of millions of people.
Just can not say today what was the gladiator Spartacus.Some historians believe that this man was the birthplace of Thrace, and he got to Rome as a prisoner.As evidence, they cite the fact that the Romans were at war at the time with Thrace and Macedonia, whose inhabitants put up fierce resistance.Others claim that Spartacus was a fugitive legionnaire and rebel.In favor of Thracian origin and says fighting style.There are two types of combat, for which the use of a Thracian warrior called Gaul.Spartacus gladiator could be a native of Sparta - a powerful state, which in the past was famous for its amazing endurance, strength of mind and body of their warriors, iron discipline.
It is known that Spartacus, whose history is striking and admirable at the same time studied.Gladiatorial school of Lentulus Batista not only taught him tactics of fighting, but also gave love to philosophy Guy blossom.The teaching blossom resembles the theory of communism, predicting that one day "the last shall be first, and vice versa."
in 73 BC Spartacus gladiator and seventy of his colleagues rebelled against the Roman Empire.This rebellion had three leaders, each of whom was a brave fighter and a great person.They all had the same fate, and hatred of those who for the sake of fun put their lives at risk.Crixus, Castus and Gannicus with Spartak robbed his own school.They have taken out all the existing weapons, and fled to the caldera, near Naples.On the way they robbed and killed the Roman nobility, over time it began to join other runaway slaves.At the end of the uprising army fugitives reached ninety thousand people.
In Rome, slaves were numerous, and if the authorities allowed all of them to join the rebellion, the state would cease to exist.Therefore, to subdue unruly sent the best legions.Despite valiant battle and excellent tactics that gave the rebels a series of brilliant victories, they lost.Gladiator Spartacus and his army were killed by the famous military leader Pompey.
Today the name Spartacus became a byword for the fearless warriors who dare to challenge the existing arrange.He is the idol of popular leaders, for whom the most important freedom for which no pity to die!
