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Spartacus
Spartacus (; ) was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Third Servile War
major slave rebellion against the Roman Republic (73-71 BCE)
Crixus
Crixus (died 72 BC) was a Gallic gladiator and military leader in the Third Servile War between the Roman Republic and rebel slaves. Born in Gaul, he was enslaved by the Romans under unknown circumstances and trained as a gladiator in Capua. His name means "one with curly hair" in Gaulish.
Gaius Claudius Glaber
1st century BC Roman military commander
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia
1st century BC Roman owner of the gladiatorial school where Spartacus was trained
Oenomaus
Gallic gladiator
Ganicus
Gannicus was a Celtic slave, who together with the Thracian Spartacus, Crixus, Castus and Oenomaus, became one of the leaders of rebel slaves during the Third Servile War (73–71 BC). In the winter of 71 BC, Gannicus, along with Castus, broke off from Spartacus, taking a large number of Celts and Germans with them, marking the second detachment of the rebellion. Gannicus and Castus met their end at the Battle of Cantenna in Lucania near Mount Soprano (Mount Camalatrum), where Marcus Licinius Crassus, Lucius Pomptinus and Quintus Marcius Rufus entrenched their forces in battle and defeated them.
Battle of the Silarius River
last battle of the Roman Servile War, 71 BC
Castus
slave leader during the Spartacus rebelion
Gaius Pomptinus
politician
Battle of Mount Vesuvius
73 BCE conflict of the Third Servile War,battle
Battle of Cantenna
71 BC battle