SPARTACUS

spärˈtəkəs, d. 71 b.c., leader in an ancient Italian slave revolt, b. Thrace. He broke out (73 b.c.) of a gladiators' school at Capua and fled to Mt. Vesuvius, where many fugitives joined him. Their army defeated several Roman forces and moved north, devastating S Italy and Campania; Spartacus' aim was a general escape from Italy, but his followers preferred plunder, and in 72 b.c. they were back in S Italy. They took Thurii and got through a cordon which Marcus Licinius Crassus stretched across the "toe" of Italy. Spartacus was killed in a battle with Crassus in Lucania. Pompey, back from Spain, helped annihilate the survivors. Of the captured slaves 6,000 were crucified along the Capua-Rome highway. After the death of Spartacus, 3,000 Roman prisoners were found unharmed in his camp.

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books on: Spartacus  - 1072 results

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Spartacus
Book by Howard Fast; North Castle Books, 1996
Subjects: Gladiators--Rome--Fiction, Revolutionaries--Rome--Fiction, Rome--History--Servile Wars, 135-71 B.C--Fiction, Spartacus--D. 71 B.C--Fiction
Spartacus Also by Howard Fast The Bridge Builders Story...Children Strange Yesterday Two Valleys Spartacus Howard Fast NORTH CASTLE BOOKS An imprint of...Rome--History--Servile War, 73-71 B.C.--Fiction. 2. Spartacus, d. 71 B.C.--Fiction. 3. Revolutionaries--Rome--Fiction...
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Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World, 140 B.C.-70 B.C
Book by Keith R. Bradley; Indiana University Press, 1998
Subjects: Rome--History--Servile Wars, 135-71 B.C, Slave Insurrections--Rome
...66 V. The Slave War of Spartacus 83 VI. The Maintenance...34-72, for a fascinating discussion of Spartacus in film. 2 The value of cross-cultural...due to the leadership of the gladiator Spartacus, took place in Italy and at one point...
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International Communism
Book by David Footman; Southern Illinois University Press, 1960
Subjects: Communism, Hunt, R. N. Carew--(Robert Nigel Carew)
...2 The Bolshevisation of the Spartacus League 23 by RICHARD LOWENTHAL...DEGRAS 1960 THE BOLSHEVISATION OF THE SPARTACUS LEAGUE By Richard Lowenthal Introduction...autonomous revolutionary tradition of the Spartacus League and of Rosa Luxemburg's leadership...
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Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema
Book by Steven Cohan, Ina Rae Hark; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Masculinity--In Mothion Pictures, Men In Motion Pictures, Sex In Motion Pictures
...OR ROMANS Looking at masculinity in Spartacus Ina Rae Hark 151...or Romans: Looking at masculinity in Spartacus maintains that the film offers its...patrician class. Within its political plot, Spartacus traces its heros search for an alternative...
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The German Revolution, 1917-1923
Book by Pierre Broué; Brill, 2005
Subjects: Germany--History--Revolution, 1918, Germany--Politics And Government--1918-1933, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands--History, World War, 1914-1918--Germany
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journal articles on: Spartacus  - 68 results

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The Tragedy of History
Journal article by Jeffrey Vogel; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1996
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...the freedom of the oppressed such as Spartacus and Thomas Munzer and they devoted their...of human dignity. Indeed, Marx takes Spartacus, leader of the greatest slave revolt in Ancient Rome, as his historical hero: Spartacus is . . . the most splendid fellow in...
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"A Hero Will Rise": the Myth of the Fascist Man in Fight Club and Gladiator
Journal article by Jennifer Barker; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2008
Subjects: Masculinity, Motion pictures, Politics, Violence
...Wylers Ben-Hur (1959), Stanley Kubricks Spartacus (1960), and Anthony Manns The Fall of...indebted to The Fall of the Roman Empire and Spartacus for plot and characters, it has more...after disposing a tyrant.13 In contrast, Spartacus, Ben-Hur, and The Fall of the Roman Empire...
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The Country of the Mind in Kubrick's Fear and Desire
Journal article by Jason Sperb; Film Criticism, Vol. 29, 2004
Subjects: Fear and Desire (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Motion pictures--Movie reviews
...de-emphasizing its place, along with Spartacus (another under-considered effort), in...Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1958), and Spartacus (1960) suggest narratives preoccupied...the third-person narrators who open Spartacus and, to a lesser extent, The Killing...
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Palpable Realities, Politics and Thirties Histories
Journal article by Steven Matthews; Critical Survey, Vol. 15, 2003
Subjects: Mitchell, James Leslie, Poetry, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Politics, Politics--Analysis, Yeats, William Butler
...Gibbon/Mitchells 1933 historical novel, Spartacus. The revolutionary vision of the work...Spartacuss rebellion is cast in Gibbons later novel...subsequent struggles against imperium (Spartacus seemingly the novel which paradoxically...
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The Hollywood Left: Aesthetics and Politics
Journal article by Paul Buhle; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1995
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...fate of that blacklistbreaking classic, Spartacus ( 1960 ), at once a revolutionary film...maintained in considerable detail, in "Spartacus:" An Exclusive Report , Cineaste...Trumbos hitherto unpublished "Report on Spartacus", pp. 30- 3; and Duncan Cooper...
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Carlos Acosta in Spartacus
Magazine article by Margaret Willis; Dance Magazine, Vol. 81, October 2007
Subjects: Dancing--Dance reviews, Spartacus (Ballet)--Dance reviews
Carlos Acosta in Spartacus. by Margaret Willis Bolshoi Ballet London Coliseum August...certainly the first black dancer--to perform the leading role of Spartacus with the company. Coached in Moscow by Mikhail Lavrovsky, one of...
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Blast from the Past
Magazine article by Allan Ulrich; Dance Magazine, Vol. 78, December 2004
Subjects: Choreography (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, Romeo and Juliet (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, Spartacus (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, Swan Lake (Video recording)--Video recording reviews, Video recordings--Video recording reviews
...Ballet, 1954 Video Arts International; 91 minutes; $34.95. Spartacus. Bolshoi Ballet, 1977 Video Arts International; 92 minutes...audience reaction shots. Although Yuri Grigorovichs stirring Spartacus (here reissued in its original letterbox format) defines itself...
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Bible Lesson
Magazine article by John Nelson, Amy Sullivan; Washington Monthly, Vol. 36, September 2004
...Douglas did not win an Academy Award for Spartacus. He was not even nominated for this film...honorary Academy Award in 1996. Second, Spartacus is not about religion unless you consider...simply involve religious characters. While Spartacus was hardly as religious as other contemporary...
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Bolshoi Ballet
Magazine article by Doris Hering; Dance Magazine, Vol. 79, December 2005
Subjects: Ballerinas--Performances, Ballet companies--Performances, Ballet dancers--Performances, Zakharova, Svetlana--Performances
...audiences. The others, Don Quixote and Spartacus, were familiar. All have survived previous...influential-but-evil received a steamy workout in Spartacus. The current version, staged in 1968...resembled a crucifixion with the slave-hero Spartacus held aloft, his arms outstretched. The...
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Behind the UN Curtain: Reflections on Covering UN Conferences and Summits in Cairo, Copenhagen, and UN Headquarters in New York City
Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 21, September 19, 2005
Subjects: Economic development--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Economic development--New York, Population--Conferences, meetings and seminars, United Nations--Conferences, meetings and seminars
...question from an African journalist named Spartacus R. The editor whom Wirth snubbed had...self-described pan-African nationalist, Spartacus, publisher of a Readers Digest-style...get contraceptives, but not aspirin." Spartacus and I compared notes often during informal...
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Cuban Star Soars in Bolshoi's Bold Tale of Rome Via Vegas; I'm Spartacus: Carlos Acosta as the Roman Gladiator in the Bolshoi Production at the Coliseum. despite a Faltering Start, the Cuban Dancer Showed He Suited the Ballet's Blockbuster Style
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 7, 2007
Subjects: Ballet, Ballets
...Bolshois Bold Tale of Rome Via Vegas; Im Spartacus: Carlos Acosta as the Roman Gladiator...Blockbuster Style. Byline: SARAH FRATER Spartacus/Bolshoi Ballet Coliseum CARLOS Acosta made his London debut in Spartacus last night, and it was everybit as...
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'Spartacus' on Starz
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 4, 2008
Subjects: Cable television broadcasting industry, MTV Networks Inc., Whitford, Bradley
Spartacus on Starz. Byline: Robyn-Denise Yourse, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Spartacus on Starz Starz is bringing Spartacus to life on the small screen, greenlighting a 13-episode series from executive producers Sam Raimi...
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Hard Cases of Ballet Serve Up High Drama; Spartacus Birmingham Hippodrome
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 30, 2006
Subjects: Ballet, Ballets
...Cases of Ballet Serve Up High Drama; Spartacus Birmingham Hippodrome. Byline: Susan...of an interval drink drunk on emotion. Spartacus, with its three acts, 12 scenes and nine...story in ballet of the Thracian hero Spartacus who led the rebellion of gladiators and...
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HARRY SOLDIERS DO A SPARTACUS; EXCLUSIVE Troops Wear Target T-Shirt
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 3, 2007
Subjects: Soldiers
HARRY SOLDIERS DO A SPARTACUS; EXCLUSIVE Troops Wear Target T-Shirt...legendary scene of solidarity in movie Spartacus - comes days before the royal is deployed...advertised under a rallying call of "Im Spartacus, Im Harry, Were all Harry now. Confuse...
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Truth Behind a Great Gladiator; the Real Spartacus Ch4, 9.00pm
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 10, 2001
Truth Behind a Great Gladiator; the Real Spartacus Ch4, 9.00pm. MENTION the word Spartacus, and an instant visual image will appears...visually spectacular quest to shed new light on Spartacus - as a man, a slave, a gladiator and the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Spartacus  - 22 results

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Spartacus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SPARTACUS spar t k s, d. 71 b.c., leader in an ancient Italian...forces and moved north, devastating S Italy and Campania; Spartacus aim was a general escape from Italy, but his followers...Licinius Crassus stretched across the "toe" of Italy. Spartacus was killed in a battle with Crassus in Lucania. Pompey...
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Spartacus Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SPARTACUS PARTY or Spartacists, radical group of German Socialists, formed c.Mar., 1916, and led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg . The name was derived from the pseudonym Spartacus used by Liebknecht in his pamphlets denouncing World War I, the government, and the majority section of the Social Democratic...
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Liebknecht, Karl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...lep k nekht, 1871 1919, German socialist, leader of the Spartacus party ; son of Wilhelm Liebknecht . His antimilitaristic...revolutionary, antiwar socialist group. This group later became the Spartacus party. Imprisoned again for his antiwar activities, Liebknecht...
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Fast, Howard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...various forms of tyranny. They include Citizen Tom Payne (1943), Freedom Road (1944), My Glorious Brothers (1948), Spartacus (1951), and April Morning (1961). Among his later novels is a lengthy multivolume, multigenerational family saga set in...
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Noske, Gustav
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...these capacities he ruthlessly suppressed radical uprisings throughout Germany, notably the insurrection of the Communist Spartacus party . He was forced to resign after the abortive monarchist Kapp Putsch (1920), because many Social Democrats felt that...
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