The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt againt the decadent Roman Republic. In 73 BCE, a Thracian...
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt againt the decadent Roman Republic.
In 73 BCE, a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then tranport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus, Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army againt the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor, Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army againt the slaves. Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesian have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome.
