Third Servile War
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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.
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Movies
- Spartacus - Directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas
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See also
- Class conflict
- Spartacus League
- Spartacist uprising
- Slavery
- List of revolutions and rebellions
- Unfree labour
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