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Site of memory · The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
The Spartacus revolt
73–71 BC — A gladiator’s breakout becomes an army of perhaps 70,000 enslaved people. After its defeat, 6,000 prisoners are crucified along the Appian Way, Capua to Rome. Remember them.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The Republic Breaks in The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476.
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