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Contribuţii la istoria răscoalei sclavilor condusă de Spartacus

  • Subiect: Taking into account the !atest articles and studies referring to the revolt of Spartacus and, on the whole, to the ancient slavery, the author of this study sets as his task to investigate the ethnical and social composition of the participants in the greatest slave revolt of the ancient world. On the ground of the results of the above mentioned articles, and from the analysis of the contemporary historical sources, the author draws the following conclusions: 1. The majority of the slaves who took part in the revolt were employed above all in agriculture and in cattle-breeding, and most of them were brought to Italy as war prisoners. The literary sources speak of them as being of Gallic, German, Thracian and Greek origin. 2. Many historians, Marxist and non-Marxist, though on different ground, deny the presence of free men in the revolt. However, the evidence of the sources is more than convincing in this respect. Besides the numerous references to the common fight of the slaves and free men, the Greek writer Appianus is very plain on this subject (cf. Bellum civile, 116). 3. The revolt led by Spartacus cannot be regarded any more as an isolated movement, having no relations with other anti-Roman forces and movements of the age. The author thinks that the real purpose of the campaign towards Mutina was Spartacus' intention to join these anti-Roman forces, which in the East were led by Mithridates, and waged an uncompromising war against Rome. 4. Finally, the article states that the solution of the question of ethnical and social composition of participants in the revolt may contribute to the understanding of many other problems connected with this great uprising of the slaves, such as the divergences between the two groups of thc slaves, their relations to the outer world, mainly to the pirates and to the anti-Roman forces of the period.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Comunicări şi studii
  • Vezi publicația: Studii Clasice: StCl
  • Editura: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
  • Loc publicare: Bucureşti
  • Anul publicaţiei: 1966
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: anul 1966
  • Paginaţia: 131-141
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