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Excellent book in view of the sparse informations by roman contemporary authors available good to read geography description ac... Read More
I have always been interested in spartacus starting with the kirk douglas movie and more recently with the cable series
Packaging/appearance
I was hoping for a better idea of the man spartacus and his early days in the ludus
Competitiveness
Slaves revolts werent unique but none had the organization planning that this one had
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- This product had a total of 275 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 15 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
His writing skills are excellent which makes this a very good read and i had difficulty putting it down even to go to work
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These are words you will not read in this book
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But he died without fanfare and the im spartacus moment somewhat sadly was only a hollywood creation
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We all have a different view of spartacus today as the image of the ancient rebel has been treated with media and the business of hollywood
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Barry strauss has here written a very flowing history of spartacus and his war
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Strauss takes the path of not embellishing the tale to make it mean things that perhaps it didnt and instead just tells the tale in a highly readable account
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The book does not spend a lot of time trying to put the entire roman world into focus accepting that the real tale is the slave revolt spartacus led
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This book did nothing to dim that interest and in fact added fact to the fiction
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