Title : Spartacus - The Slave Revolt The Romans - Max Gallo - Book

Summary :

Spartacus: this name has survived through the millennia.

Max Gallo brings it back to life by following the fate of this Thracian who rejects Roman domination. She enslaves him and makes him a gladiator. He flees with a few companions doomed, like him, to death in the arena. Spartacus defeats the legions sent in pursuit. Thousands of slaves join him. A breath of freedom ignites, from Vesuvius to the Po, the entire Italian peninsula. The Roman Republic trembles.

Max Gallo paints a fresco of this "servile" war. On one side, the order of the legions, the power and wealth of Rome, its tribunes, its consuls, Caesar, Crassus, Pompey. On the other, the thirst for freedom, the savagery, the anarchy of men who have broken their chains and who pillage, pillage, following Spartacus without obeying him.

A whole cruel era comes to life under the pen of Max Gallo.

History becomes palpitating flesh, faces, tears and passions, voices that tell their stories. Everyone wants to leave their mark.

"Those who are remembered do not die," said Spartacus. "We were defeated, but we lived as free men."

The six thousand crosses erected by the proconsul Crassus along the Via Appia to torture the rebellious slaves and terrorize future generations will not erase the memory of Spartacus.

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