Authors: Barry Strauss
The Spartacus War (33 page)
joint consular army battle
legionaries
legions
losses
marches south under Crassus
in northern Lucanian hills
Numidian cavalry
pursuit of rebel army
recruiting officers (conquisitores)
refuses to accept defeat
sent to put down gladiators’ revolt
size of
slave legions
standard-bearers
standards
tactics
under Varinius sent after rebels
veteran soldiers
Roman attitude
towards gladiators
towards slave revolt
towards slaves
towards Spartacus
Roman fleet
Roman Games (Great Games)
Rome see also Senate
Campus Martius (Field of Mars)
Capitoline Hill
Colline Gate
defences
Forum
funeral games
gladiatorial games
optimates (conservative politicians)
Pompey’s and Crassus’s armies reach
response to gladiator’s revolt
and Sicilian slave uprisings
Spartacus sold into slavery in
terror in
triumph celebration
Rufus, Quintus Marcius
runaways’ (maroons’) communities
Rupilius, Publius
Ruspina, Battle of (46 BC)
Sabbio, Publius Confuleius
Saguntum
St Augustine
Salernum (Salerno)
Sallust
Samnium
Samus
San Fratello (Apollonia)
Sarnus (Sarno) River
Saturnalia (annual celebration)
Scipio Aemilianus
Scordisci people
Scrofa, Gnaeus Tremelius
Scrofario
Scylla and Charybdis, myth of
seers
Sele (Silarus) River
marshes
Upper, valley ofsee also Silarus, Battle of the
Seleucia
Senate
afraid of gladiators’ revolt
appoints Crassus to command legions
and Capuan slave revolt
and consuls’ lack of success against Spartacus
and Crassus’s ovation
and Dionysus worship
gladiators moved out of Rome by
and pirates
praetors
reacts to news of defeat of Glaber’s army
and return of Pompey
sets public policy
and Sicily
senators
Seneca
Sertorius, Quintus
Shakespeare, William
shepherds
shields
large oblong (scuta)
rebels’ woven
small (parmulae)
Sicels
Sicilian Slave War, First (135-132 BC)
Sicilian Slave War, Second (104-100 BC)
Sicilian slaves
Sicily
Sila Greca
Sila Mountains
Silarus River see Sele River
Silarus, Battle of the (71 BC)
after the battle
slave legions
slave revolt see rebel army
slave shepherds of Apulia
slave stewards
slave uprisingssee also rebel army
Anatolian
Slave War, First Sicilian (135-132 BC)
Slave War, Second Sicilian (104-100 BC)
slaves
Celtic
cost of
on country estates
freedom earned
German
in Italy
minor humiliations for
Roman view of
runawaysee also rebel army
sales of
and seers
Sicilian
Thracian
Thurii
urban
in vineyards
worshipping the genius of master
smallholders, Italian
snakes, symbolism of
snakes in Italy
Social War (91-88 BC)
Soprano, Mount
Spain
Spartacus
Alps, wants to avoid battle and head for
on the Appian Way
Aspromonte Mountains, wins clash in
attack on Roman camp
authority respected by rebels
battle in Apennines
Battle at Cantenna
Battle of Picenum
Battle of the Silarus
death at
kills his horse before
born as aristocrat theory
breakout from Aspromonte Mountains
brought up as a warrior
builds his army
captured and enslaved
challenges Roman army
Claudian’s statement on
compromise with Crixus
Crassus’s strategy against
crucifies Roman prisoner
death before disgrace philosophy
description
deserts army and becomes a latro
early life as an auxiliary
encourages gladiators to revolt
escape from Vatia’s barracks
fate of a revolutionary
feelings towards Rome
fighting methods
gives gladiatorial games for slaves
as a gladiatorsee also gladiatorial matches
in gladiatorial barracks
and gladiators’ revolt
heads for Samnium
as a leader
legend of
lover see Thracian lady
Lucanian travels in folklore
march to the sea
marches northwards
and new recruits
in Nola
origins
peace treaty offered to Crassus
and pirates
plans to cross to Sicily
plans to move north
and Pompey
prolongs the struggle
pursued after Cantenna battle
rafts, orders men to build and cross to Sicily on
and raiding
raids on Roman camps
retreat into Aspromonte Mountains
retreat to Peteline Mountains
retreats south through Lucania
Roman attitude towards
snake said to have wrapped itself around his face
sold into slavery
and support for Mithridates
symbolic power
at Thurii
triumph against Varinius
turns south again
Venusia, approach to
and Vesuvius
‘victory disease’
Spartacus’s rebellion see rebel army
Sparticus
spolia opima (‘splendid spoils’)
Statio ad Statuam (Catona)
Strabo
Strait of Messina
Strongoli
Sulla
civil wars
Sulla’s army
Sulla’s veterans
Sybaris
Sybaris, Plain of
Sybaris (Coscile) River
valley
Sybarites
Syracuse
Great Harbour
Temple of Athena
Tacitus
Tanager (Tanagro) River
Tarentum (Taranto), Gulf of
Tempsa, ‘troubles’ at
tenant-farmers
Terence
Teutoburg Forest massacre (AD)
Thrace
Dionysus worship in
slave trade
Sulla invades
and women’s religious authority
Thracian art and culture
Thracian lady (Spartacus’s lover)
in Capua
escapes from Vatia’s barracks
origins
prophecy after snake wraps itself around Spartacus’s face
in Thrace
and Thurii
as worshipper of Dionysus
Thracian nomads
Thracian peltasts (lightly armed infantrymen)
Thracian revolt (15 BC)
Thracian war cry
Thracian women
Thracians
in battle
battle preparations
contempt for death
as gladiatorssee also Spartacus
height of
and hero’s death
horse sacred to
as horsemen
as men of honour
in Mithridates’ war
and mountainous terrain
passion for war
in rebel army
as slaves
specialize in night attacks
tattoos
and Vesuvius
victories over
as warriors
Thucydides
Thurii
plain of
Todi
Tonnara
Toranius, Gaius
Torre lo schiavo
Tremellius Scrofa, Cnaeus
Triballi people
triumph, celebrating a
Triumvirate, First
tumultus (emergency)
Tuscany (Etruria)
Tyre, rebels from
Tyrrhenian Sea
finds in olive grove near
urban slaves
ValloDiano (Campus Atinas)
Varinius, Publius
Varro
Varus, Quintilius
Vatia, Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulus
gladiatorial barracks (ludus)
gladiators escape from
Venosa (Venusia)
Venus
Venusia (Venosa)
Venusians
Verres, Gaius
Vestal virgin
Vesuvinum wine
veteran soldiers
Vettius, T. Minucius
Via Annia
Via Grande (‘Great Way’)
Via Latina
Vibo Valentia
vilicae (female officials)
vilici (plantation bailiffs)
Villa San Giovanni
villas, ‘rustic’
vineyards, slaves in
Viriathus
Volcei (Buccino)
Vologaesus
Volturnus (Volturno) River valley
Vultur (Vulture), Mount
weapons
catapults, mobile (‘scorpions’)
javelins (pila)
javelins, little (iacula or tela)
missiles, ‘acorn’
projectiles, Roman army
rebels’ improvised
swords, broad straight (gladii)
swords, curved (sicae)
wine, amphorae of
wine consumed before battle
wine production
winter in Italy
women
at battles
Celtic
Cimbri
German
plantation officials (vilicae)
as prophetesses
Thracian
Yehohanan
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