![]() ![]() This book provides an accessible and informative introduction which is ideally suited to the general public and students up to undergraduate level, whilst still containing some material to interest (and provoke) scholars. Interest in one of the most famous figures of antiquity remains strong. This latest reception of the slave leader is briefly mentioned in Urbainczyk’s generally excellent and concise account of Spartacus and the slave wars. Howard Fast’s novel, the source for the famous 1960 film, was again adapted, this time as a four-hour TV miniseries by the USA Network. 1 Yet within a couple of years, the film and television industry, eager to capitalise on the success of Gladiator, had once again turned to Spartacus. Shaw declared that “it seems that the romantic myth of Spartacus has had its day”. In his 2001 anthology of sources on the slave uprising of 73-71 BC, Brent D. ![]()
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