The Spartacus War (32 page)
Authors: Barry Strauss
Aspromonte Mountains, fortifications in
attack on breakaway rebel army
Battle of Cantenna
pursuit of rebels after
Battle of the Silarus after battle preparations for
bust of
career
character
Cicero praises
death of
defeat of breakaway rebel army
forces Spartacus to retreat
grandfather ‘Agelastus’
and his legions
marches south
and Mummius’s defeat
officers
ovation celebration
and prolonged struggle with Spartacus
punishment for slaves after revolt
and the rebels’ crossing to Sicily
recruiting
return of
revives decimation discipline practice
rivalry with Pompey
Spartacus offers peace treaty
and split in rebel army
strategy against Spartacus
wages war against Marians
wants confrontation with Spartacus
and war in Spain
wealth
Crassus, Publius
Crathis (Crati) River
valley
Crete
Crixus
army crushed
compromise with Spartacus
defeated
funeral games
leads rebel group in the south
crucifixions
meaning
procedure
relics saved from
Cumae
Curio, Gaius Scribonius
Danube River
Darius, king of Persia
Diana Tifata temple
Didius, Titus
Dionysus (god of Thrace)
worshippers of
Dositheus
Dossone della Melìa (Melìa Ridge)
Drusus, Marcus Livius
Eboli (Eburum)
Eburian (Eboli) Hills
elephants
emergency (tumultus)
Ephesus, Turkey, gladiators’ cemetery
estates, country (latifundia)
Etna, Mount
Etruria (Tuscany)
Familia Gladiatoria Lentuli Vatiae (Lentulus Vatia’s Family of Gladiators) see Vatia, Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulus: gladiatorial barracks
farm workers
farmer-soldiers
farmers, Italian subsistence
fides relationship (‘protection’; ‘faith’; ‘trust’)
Flaccus
Floralia
Florus (gladiator)
Florus (writer)
foraging
Forum Annii
free men
Furius, Lucius
Gallic warriors’ grave
Gannicus (Cannicus)
Garganus (Gargano), Mount
Gaul
Gauls
Gavius, Publius
Gellius, Lucius
GenzanoLucania
German battle cry
German refugees
German women
Germans
in battle
contempt for death
height of
and hero’s death
horse sacred to
migrating
in rebel army
rebel army breakaway contingent
sacrifice prisoners of war
as slaves
and women’s religious authority
Germany
Getae tribe
Gióia Tauro (Plain of Metauros)
Giungano
Glaber, Caius Claudius
gladiatorial enterprise (ludus - ‘school’)
gladiatorial entrepreneurs (lanistae)
gladiatorial games, Spartacus gives
gladiatorial games run by private enterprise
gladiatorial matches
death blow
gladiators’ cry
prizes
producer (editor)
referee and assistant (summa rudis and seconda rudis)
thumbs gesture
gladiators
Celtic
diet
escape from Vatia’s barracks
family relationship
‘fight to the death’ (sine missione)
heavyweight (murmillones)
heavyweight (thraex)
Italian citizen volunteers as
life expectancy
life of
moved out of Rome
oath of
origins
in Pompeii
rewards for
Roman attitude towards
Thraciansee also Spartacus
training
gladiators’ revolt see rebel army
Gorgias
Gracchi brothers
grape crops
grape-vine, wild (vitis vinifera sylvestris)
Gratidanus, Marius
Greece
Greek kings
Greeks
Grumentum
guerrillas
Gulf of Tarentum (Taranto)
Hannibal
Herachthinus
Heraclea
vase and contents
Heracleo
Herculaneum
herdsmen
Hermann (Arminius)
Highway:
Highway:
Hindu Kush Mountains
Hispania Citerior
Hispania Ulterior
Hollywood
Homer
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Horatius
horses
Hortensius
Illyrians
Imachara
imperator as title of honour
Ionian coast
Ionian Sea
Irpinia
Italian citizens as volunteer gladiators
Italian nationalists
Italian subsistence farmers
Italians in rebel army
Italy, snakes in
Italy, winter in
Jerusalem, siege of (AD)
Jesus (gladiator)
Judaea
Jugurtha, King of Numidia
kitchens, Roman
knights, mounted
Lactarii (Lattari) Mountains
lanistae (gladiatorial entrepreneurs)
latifundia (‘wide fields’ - country estates)
latro (‘thief’, ‘bandit’, ‘highwayman’, guerrilla soldier’, ‘insurgent’)
Lattari (Lactarii) Mountains
Lentula
Lentulus Clodianus, Gnaeus Cornelius
Licinii family
lictors (Roman officials’ attendants)
Lilybaeum (Marsala)
Livy
Locris
loot, acquisition of
Lucania (Basilicata)
lake in
north-western
northern hills
Lucanian horses
Lucanians
Lucullus, Lucius Licinius
Lucullus, Marcus
Lucullus, Marcus Terentius Varro
ludus (gladiatorial enterprise - ‘school’)
Lusitania
Lusitanians
Macedonia
Machiavelli
Maedi tribe
Magdalene Mountains (Monti della Maddalena)
Magna Graecia (‘Greater Greece’)
managers of country estates
Manlius, Cnaeus
Marcellus, Marcus Claudius
Marcius Rufus, Quintus
Marco, Plains of
Marians
Marius
wife of
Marius (inhabitant of Vibo Valentia)
maroon communities
Marsala (Lilybaeum)
Marseilles (Massilia)
Martha (Syrian prophetess)
Marzano, Mount
Massilia (Marseille)
Melìa Ridge (Dossone della Melìa)
Messana (Messina)
Messina, Strait of
Metapontum (Metaponto)
temple of Apollo
Metauros, Plain of (Gióia Tauro)
Metellus, Lucius Caecilius
Metellus Pius, Quintus Caecilius
Milo
Mithridates, King of Pontus
Mithridatic Wars
Modena (Mutina)
Moesian tribe
Monastir (Ruspina), Tunisia
Monte del Papa (Pope’s Mountain)
Monti della Maddalena (Magdalene Mountains)
Mount Aetna (Etna)
Mount Camalatrum
Mount Cantenna
Mount Garganus (Gargano)
Mount Marzano
Mount Ogna
Mount Soprano
Mount Vesuvius
Grand Cone
Monte Somma
slave-run estates around
Mount Vultur (Vulture)
Mummius
musical instrument, tibia
Mutina (Modena)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nares Lucanae
nationalists, Italian
Nocera (Nuceria)
Nola
Novius family
Nuceria (Nocera)
Numantia
Numidian cavalry
Octavius, Gaius
Odrysian people
Oenomaus
Ofanto (Aufidus) River
Ogna massif
Oliveto Citra
Olympias
opportunists
Orange, France
Orchomenus, Battle of (85 BC)
Orpheus and Orphic religion
Oscan language
ovation celebration
Padus River see Po River
Paestum
Palermo (Panormus)
Partenio Mountains
Parthians
pathfinders
peltasts (lightly armed Thracian infantrymen)
Perperna, Marcus
Petelia
Peteline Mountains
Pharsalus, Battle of (48 BC)
Philippus
Picenti, Agri
Picentia
Picentine guide
Picentini Mountains
Picenum, Battle of (72 BC)
pirates
Plain of Metauros (Gióia Tauro)
Plain of Sybaris
Plains of Aspromonte
Plains of Marco
Plutarch
Po (Padus) River
plain
Polla
Pollino Mountains
Pompeians
Pompeii
fresco at
gladiatorial ludus
small farms around
Spartacus painting in
veteran soldiers in
Pompey, Sextus
Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus)
Pomptinus, Caius
Pope’s Mountain (Monte del Papa)
Portugal
Poseidonia
praetors
prayer before battle
prisoners of war
prophetesses
‘proscription’
Ptolemy31
Publipor
Puglia (Apulia)
Punic War, Second (218-201 BC)
Punta Pezzo (Cape Caenys)
Puteoli (Pozzuoli)
Pydna, Battle of (168 BC)
Pythagoras
quaestors (financial officials)
Quinctius, Lucius
rebel army
achievements
after final battle
Apennine Mountains battle
on the Appian Way
Aspromonte Mountains, wins clash in
attack on Roman camp at Vesuvius
attack on Varinius’s force
battle with joint consular army
battles against army
beginnings of
breakaway contingent defeat at Battle of Cantenna
breakout from Aspromonte Mountains
in Bruttium
camp left deserted
Campus Atinas, raping and pillaging in
Capuans driven off
cavalry
Celts in
cohesion
commanders, choosing
Crassus’s force encounters
Crixus’s army crushed by
crucifixions after defeat
defeated at Battle of the Silarus
desire to fight Roman army
equipment captured
fugitives join
Germans in
Glaber sent to put down
heads for Samnium
heads south
heads south again
internal divisions
leadership
marches northwards
marches to the sea
new recruits
‘nobles’ in
numbers, estimated
pathfinders
plans to cross to Sicily
possible mutiny in
pre-battle rituals
pursued after Cantenna battle
rafts, men build and try to cross to Sicily on
raids
raids on Roman camps
reaches the Ionian coast
respect for Spartacus’s authority
retreat into Aspromonte Mountains
retreat to Peteline Mountains
Roman attitude towards
Rome’s response to
splits into two groups
survivors at large
Thracians in
Thurii conquered
training newcomers
unit insignia designations
at Vesuvius
on Via Annia
weapons, improvised
Regium (ReggioCalabria)
religions and lunar cycles
Roccadaspide
Roman army
against guerrilla warfare
and Apennine Mountains battle
Aspromonte Mountains, clash with rebels in
auxilia units
battle formation see Roman army: tactics
Battle of Arausio (105 BC)
Battle of Cantenna
Battle of the Silarus preparations for
battles against rebels
camp attacked by rebels
camps and defences
and Capuan slave revolt (104 BC)
centurions
chickens considered sacred to
cohorts
commanders, new, chosen
commanders enabled to reward bravery with citizenship
Crassus’s force encounters rebels
cremation of dead after battle
decimation discipline practice revived
discipline in
eagles
failures
farmers in
fasces (bundle of rods)
fighting wars (73 BC)
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