Spartacus

by Urbainczyk, Theresa

• ISBN13: 9781853996689
• ISBN10: 1853996688
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-02
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Pr
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Summary

For many today Spartacus is Kirk Douglas. The influence of Kubrick's film has been enormous, but Spartacus was famous before 1960. For hundreds of years he has been a byword for resistance, revolution and the fight for freedom. He has given his name to a revolutionary party in Germany and a political group in the USA; he is the subject of several novels and films, and even a ballet. Though only a slave, he is as famous as Julius Caesar. Not much information, and much of it negative, survives about him from the ancient world, yet his reputation has survived this character assassination and he is still famous as a popular hero two thousand years after his death. Theresa Urbainczyk explores the man and the myth in this fascinating short treatment of an icon of revolution.

Author Biography

Theresa Urbainczyk is Senior Lecturer in Classics at University College Dublin.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(10)
1. The Outbreak of the Revolt	19	(17)
2. Previous Revolts	36	(15)
3. The First Victories	51	(15)
4. Crassus	66	(15)
5. Slaves after Spartacus	81	(11)
6. The Creation of a Hero	92	(14)
7. Spartacus in the Modern Imagination	106	(12)
8. The 'Thinking Man's Epic'	118	(13)
Notes	131	(3)
Further Reading	134	(7)
Index	141