Spartacus

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.

ISBN 1853996688   Pages 144 ISBN13 9781853996689 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Weight (grammes) 186 Imprint Bristol Classical Press   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Ancients in Action Publication date 02 Aug 2004   Height (mm) 220 Library of Congress DG253.5   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 937.05092   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

1		The outbreak of the revolt		19
2		Previous revolts		36
3		The first victories		51
4		Crassus		66
5		Slaves after Spartacus		81
6		The creation of a hero		92
7		Spartacus in the modern imagination		106
8		The 'thinking man's epic'		118

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