The Spartacus Road A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy

by Stothard, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781590205785
• ISBN10: 1590205782
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-03
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

The name of Spartacus resounds through history. In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves led by Spartacus rose up in Italy. Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the world's finest military forces between 73and 71 BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind. Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal, The Spartacus Roadis a book like none other--at once a journalist's notebook, a reflection on life's fragility, including the author's own fight against cancer; and a classicist's celebration. As he travels along the Spartacus Road and into the classical Italian landscape, Stothard breathes new life into a singular war in antiquity, recounting one of the greatest stories of the ages.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xi
Rome To Ariccia	p. 1
Saxon Suicides
Senator Symmachus Regrets
Finishing Schools
Too Many Foreigners
Riddle of The Number 3
Chemistry With Kirk Douglas
Capuan Carlo's Virgin
ARICCIA to BENEVENTO	p. 39
Spectacular
Poplios Papinios Statios
Dwarf-Eating Birds
Nazi Revenge
A Cancer Called Nero
How to Die Well
Horace And His Father
Hacksaw Teeth
CAPUA to ACERRA	p. 75
Spartacus Leaves The Kitchen
Contract Killers
Curious Koreans
Sabbio's Las Vegas
Bush E Sharon Criminali
Florus Of Fleet Street
What Goes Around Comes Around
Mountain Monster
VESUVIUS to POMPEII	p. 117
Slaves On A Volcano
Epicurus In Scotland
Death And His Half-Brother Sleep
A Boxer From Thebes
How To Succeed In Selling Plates
What Pain Does To The Brain
POMPEII to Nuceria	p. 155
Terror, Rape And Revenge
Cesspools In Our Streets
Virtual Herculaneum
A Vicar From Essex
Spartacus Triumphant
Lost Libraries By The Sea
EGNAZIA to BOTROMAGNO	p. 191
South For The Winter
Magicians And Castrati
Greeks Vs Trojans
Arthur Koestler's Crucifixions
Early Cases Of Syphilis
Massacre Of The Horse-Builder's Men
Body Scans
The Duties Of Slave Women
GARGANO to POGNANA	p. 231
Victory For A Philosophical Consul
In The House Of Archangel Michael
Human Entrails Around Their Waists
Calls Of Crows I Corpses On The Beaches
How Spartacus Lost His Hollywood War
TORNO to PICENINO	p. 261
Ghost-Hunting With The Yogurt-Seller
To Leave Italy Or To Fight Rome
In A Chemo-Fuelled Rose Garden
Solid Gold Piss-Pots
Enter Marcus Licinius Crassus
REGGIO CALABRIA to BUCCINO-VOLCIEI	p. 297
Popcorn For Plutarch
Columns In The Press
Betrayed By Pirates
Man A And Man B
At The Bitter-Sweet Lake
When The War Was Over
SORRENTO to ROME	p. 333
How To Live A Happy Life
Marble Mimics Grass
Things To Do With Defeated Slaves
Crucified In Theory
A Head Full Of Molten Gold And Other Aftermaths
Acknowledgements	p. 347
List of Illustrations	p. 349
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