life of spartacus

  • Spartacus then led his forces south, where he was met in 71 by the army of Marcus Licinius Crassus.

  • captured and crucified in71

  • In 72, Spartacus drove north, defeating three Roman armies on the way

  • he broke out of a gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other gladiators in 73 B.C.

  • birth