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Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459520
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Spartacus written by Howard Fast and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture.
Author : Ben Kane
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466802669
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Spartacus: The Gladiator written by Ben Kane and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gritty, passionate and violent, this thrilling book is a real page-turner and a damn good read. It brings Spartacus—and ancient Rome—to vivid, colorful life."—Steven Pressfield, author of Gates of Fire Sink your teeth into the gritty, powerful tale of Spartacus: The Gladiator, a historical thriller that will grip you from the first page to the very last. Written by bestselling novelist Ben Kane, this epic journey delves into the life of Spartacus—from Roman auxiliary and slave to revered gladiator and a symbol of defiance against the most potent army of the era. Step onto the unforgiving sands of the gladiatorial arena and experience the brutality and raw energy of combat at its most primal. Witness the audacious bid for freedom led by Spartacus and his band of gladiators as they risk everything to break free from their shackles and challenge their oppressors–the mighty, ever-expanding Roman Empire. Spartacus's tale isn’t just a story of rebellion; it's an exploration of humanity, resilience, love, and sacrifice, set against the historic grandeur of ancient Rome. Charged with emotion and vivid color, this novel will transport you back in time to the underbelly of the Roman Empire—a journey that’s as thrilling as it is enlightening. Enjoy a fresh perspective of the legend that is Spartacus, one that goes deeper than ever before, uncovering the man at the heart of the myth.
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453239375
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book I Am Spartacus! written by Kirk Douglas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lively” memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times). One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the “Unfriendly Ten,” men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about their political affiliations. Douglas’s source material was already a hot property, as the novel Spartacus was written by Howard Fast while he was in jail for defying HUAC. With the financial future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production both on- and off-screen. As both producer and star of the film, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Lew Wasserman. Writing from his heart and from his own meticulously researched archives, Kirk Douglas, at ninety-five, looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era—but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the notorious Hollywood blacklist. A master storyteller, Douglas paints a vivid and often humorous portrait in I Am Spartacus! The book is enhanced by newly discovered period photography of the stars and filmmakers both on and off the set.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470777265
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Spartacus written by Martin M. Winkler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book systematically to analyze Kirk Douglas’ and Stanley Kubrick’s depiction of the slave revolt led by Spartacus from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film’s use of ancient sources, the ancient historical contexts, the political significance of the film, the history of its censorship and restoration, and its place in film history. Includes the most important passages from ancient authors’ reports of the slave revolt in translation.
Author : Lawrence Watt-Evans
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 080955626X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Spartacus File written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty-first century Philadelphia, a worker is neurally imprinted with the wrong job skills and he learns a new way of thinking that causes government agents concern.
Author : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780943202
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Spartacus written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original landmark story of the gladiator Spartacus, a masterpiece of vivid storytelling full of adventure, suspense, cruelty, and romantic intrigue Rome, 73 BC. Kleon, a Greek slave, wakes early, cuts his master's throat, and flees south by a back road, clutching a copy of Plato's Republic. His destination is Capua, where he hopes to join the burgeoning rebel army of Spartacus, an escaped gladiator. So begins the definitive telling of one of the most famous stories in history. Spartacus and his companions, having defeated every Roman force sent against them, are plundering the countryside and gathering to their ranks thousands of fugitives, brigands, and itinerants. They seek to create a new world, one where men are not owner and owned. But they must first escape Italy, and the vengeful Roman legions already marshalling against them. Brutal and uncompromising in its depiction of the ancient world, Spartacus masterfully evokes the violence, hope, and despair of the war that shook Rome to its very foundations.
Author : Scott Douglas
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781475026160
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Spartacus written by Scott Douglas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander is just 17 when his father is killed, and he is taken as a slave by Roman soldiers; he knew his life was about to be changed, but he never imagined he would become the servant to one of the greatest gladiators of Rome: Spartacus. Amidst rumors of a slave revolt, Alexander learns what it means to love, fight, and lead.
Author : Ben Kane
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250012775
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Spartacus: Rebellion written by Ben Kane and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Great Britian: Preface Publishing, 2012.
Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374722161
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Black Spartacus written by Sudhir Hazareesingh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize “Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read.” —David A. Bell, The Guardian A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary’s image has multiplied across the globe—appearing on banknotes and in bronze, on T-shirts and in film—the only definitive portrait executed in his lifetime has been lost. Well versed in the work of everyone from Machiavelli to Rousseau, he was nonetheless dismissed by Thomas Jefferson as a “cannibal.” A Caribbean acolyte of the European Enlightenment, Toussaint nurtured a class of black Catholic clergymen who became one of the pillars of his rule, while his supporters also believed he communicated with vodou spirits. And for a leader who once summed up his modus operandi with the phrase “Say little but do as much as possible,” he was a prolific and indefatigable correspondent, famous for exhausting the five secretaries he maintained, simultaneously, at the height of his power in the 1790s. Employing groundbreaking archival research and a keen interpretive lens, Sudhir Hazareesingh restores Toussaint to his full complexity in Black Spartacus. At a time when his subject has, variously, been reduced to little more than a one-dimensional icon of liberation or criticized for his personal failings—his white mistresses, his early ownership of slaves, his authoritarianism —Hazareesingh proposes a new conception of Toussaint’s understanding of himself and his role in the Atlantic world of the late eighteenth century. Black Spartacus is a work of both biography and intellectual history, rich with insights into Toussaint’s fundamental hybridity—his ability to unite European, African, and Caribbean traditions in the service of his revolutionary aims. Hazareesingh offers a new and resonant interpretation of Toussaint’s racial politics, showing how he used Enlightenment ideas to argue for the equal dignity of all human beings while simultaneously insisting on his own world-historical importance and the universal pertinence of blackness—a message which chimed particularly powerfully among African Americans. Ultimately, Black Spartacus offers a vigorous argument in favor of “getting back to Toussaint”—a call to take Haiti’s founding father seriously on his own terms, and to honor his role in shaping the postcolonial world to come. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize | Finalist for the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named a best book of the year by the The Economist | Times Literary Supplement | New Statesman
Author : Alan Scribner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517567682
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book The Return of Spartacus written by Alan Scribner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Return of Spartacus is the fourth of the highly acclaimed and best selling historical mysteries set at the height of the Roman Empire. The year is now 165 CE, 2 years after Marcus Aurelius Betrayed, 4 years after The Cyclops Case and 7 years after Mars the Avenger. In The Return of Spartacus, Marcus Flavius Severus, Judge in the Court of the Urban Prefect in the City of Rome, is assigned to investigate murders of gladiators outside the arena, in the Ludus Magnus, the gladiator school in Rome. Severus is told he must put a stop to the killings. Severus is also told that there may be new Spartacus hidden among the gladiators. Whether a new Spartacus is now emerging almost 250 years after the original Spartacus revolt, and whether he is involved in the killings is not known. But Severus is told that any gladiator or slave revolt must be stopped in its tracks. The assignment is not an easy one for the judge. Two of his aides are former slaves and in sympathy with a slave revolt. Severus himself is conflicted by the definition of slavery in Roman law as an institution contrary to the Law of Nature and the pragmatics of slavery in the world he lives in. He also never goes to the gladiator games himself for his own reasons. Nevertheless, Severus must now enter the world of the gladiator. The gladiators, the owner of the gladiator troupe, the lanista who trains them, the Procurator who heads the school, the women who service the gladiators and ex-gladiators all must be investigated. Scenes are set throughout the City of Rome as the investigation requires, including a scene in the Flavian Amphitheater for a gladiatorial bout on the opening day of the Games of the Floralia Spring festival. There are also scenes in Severus' courtroom and the book is accurate as to the criminal laws of the time, including the use of judicial torture. All laws, rescripts and legal procedures are from Roman law sources. The Return of Spartacus is not only a mystery but also a daily life in ancient Rome, a sojourn into world of the Roman Empire and its courts, police and criminal laws. Alan Scribner was an Assistant District Attorney in the office of Frank S. Hogan in New York County and a criminal defense attorney. He is also an independent scholar of Ancient Rome and co-author of Anni Ultimi: A Roman Stoic Guide to Retirement, Old Age and Death. He is the author of Mars the Avenger, the Cyclops Case and Marcus Aurelius Betrayed, the first three Judge Marcus Flavius Severus mysteries in Ancient Rome.
Author : Brent D. Shaw
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312237035
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Spartacus and the Slave Wars written by Brent D. Shaw and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-02-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 72 B.C., in the heart of Rome's Mediterranean empire, a slave named Spartacus ignited one of the most violent episodes of slave resistance in the history of the Roman Empire--indeed in the world annals of slavery. This volume organizes original translations of 80 Greek and Latin sources into topical chapters that look at the daily lives of slaves trained as gladiators and those who labored on farms in Italy and Sicily, including accounts of revolts that preceded and anticipated that of Spartacus. In a carefully crafted introductory essay, Shaw places Spartacus in the broader context of first and second century B.C. Rome, Italy and Sicily and explains why his story continues to be a popular symbol of rebellion today. The volume also includes a glossary, chronology, selected bibliography, three maps, an annotated list of ancient writers, and questions for consideration.
Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647486211
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Spartacus written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spartacus, a Thracian whose early life is hidden in the mists of history, is one of the most infamous figures of antiquity. Perhaps the most famous gladiator of all, parts of Spartacus' story inspired elements of the award-winning film Gladiator (2000).
Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541920848
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Spartacus: The Roman Liberator of Slaves - Ancient History for Kids | Children's Ancient History written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the story of Spartacus in the pages of this book of ancient history for kids. Reading about the lives of people from the past will help you understand how they lived, what decisions they made and what circumstances brought them into the pages of history books. You can also learn about ancient societies just by reading their stories.
Author : Nic Fields
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846033537
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Spartacus and the Slave War 73–71 BC written by Nic Fields and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Osprey Campaign title brings to life the story of Rome's most famous revolt, the Slave War (73-71 BC), and the ex-gladiator who led it. In the year 73 BC, the Thracian Spartacus broke out of the gladiatorial training school at Capua in Campainia. A charismatic leader, Spartacus formed an army of runaway slaves and people with little to lose, and defeated the Roman troops under the praetor C. Claudius Glaber. With this minor victory, Spartacus' army swelled to 70,000 and rampaged throughout Campania assaulting a number of cities and defeating two consular armies. Terrified lest the revolt spread across the republic, the government assigned M. Licinius Crassus the task of crushing the revolt. Crassus' first attempt to capture Spartacus failed, and the Roman senate called upon Pompey to help him. Together, they cornered Spartacus and brought him to battle near the source of the river Silarus. During the battle, Spartacus was killed and his army defeated. Crassus crucified 6,000 prisoners as an example to others who might think of revolt.
Author : Mark Morris
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0857681788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Spartacus: Morituri written by Mark Morris and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn to the bloody violence of the fights, Crassus, an Equites who aims at the Praetorship, sets up his own gladiatorial school, while Batiatus and Solonius vie with each other for Crassus's favor. Original. TV tie-in.
Author : Michael G. Cornelius
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786498013
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Spartacus in the Television Arena written by Michael G. Cornelius and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator turned rebel leader, endures as a near-mythic hero who fought for the oppressed against a Roman oligarchy built on the backs of slave labor. The image of Spartacus as a noble if doomed avenger is familiar and his story has been retold through history as a cautionary tale about social injustice. The television series Spartacus takes a different view, with a violent depiction of the man and his times and a focus on the archetype of the gladiator--powerful, courageous and righteous. This collection of new essays studies the series as an exploration of masculinity. In the world of Spartacus, men jockey for social position, question the nature of their lives, examine their relationships with women and with each other, and explore their roles in society and the universe. The series also offers a compelling study of the composite nature of historical narrative in television and film, where key facts from original sources are interwoven with period embellishments, presenting audiences with a history and a fiction whose lines remain blurred by a distant yet all-too-familiar past.
Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439158398
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Spartacus War written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative account from an expert author: The Spartacus War is the first popular history of the revolt in English. The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration for novelists, filmmakers, and revolutionaries for 2,000 years. Starting with only seventy-four men, a gladiator named Spartacus incited a rebellion that threatened Rome itself. With his fellow gladiators, Spartacus built an army of 60,000 soldiers and controlled the southern Italian countryside. A charismatic leader, he used religion to win support. An ex-soldier in the Roman army, Spartacus excelled in combat. He defeated nine Roman armies and kept Rome at bay for two years before he was defeated. After his final battle, 6,000 of his followers were captured and crucified along Rome's main southern highway. The Spartacus War is the dramatic and factual account of one of history's great rebellions. Spartacus was beaten by a Roman general, Crassus, who had learned how to defeat an insurgency. But the rebels were partly to blame for their failure. Their army was large and often undisciplined; the many ethnic groups within it frequently quarreled over leadership. No single leader, not even Spartacus, could keep them all in line. And when faced with a choice between escaping to freedom and looting, the rebels chose wealth over liberty, risking an eventual confrontation with Rome's most powerful forces. The result of years of research, The Spartacus War is based not only on written documents but also on archaeological evidence, historical reconstruction, and the author's extensive travels in the Italian countryside that Spartacus once conquered.
