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EPISODE · Feb 16, 2026 · 24 MIN

Spartacus

from History Dispatches · host Matt and McKinley Breen

With just 70 men the gladiator slave Spartacus planned a revolt and escaped. Turning those 70 men into over 70,000. And in the process defeated multiple Roman armies and became one of the biggest thorns in the side the Roman Republic ever saw. This is the story of Spartacus. Sources https://www.livius.org/sources/content/plutarch/plutarchs-crassus/plutarch-on-spartacus/ https://www.livius.org/sources/content/appian/appian-spartacus/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Servile_War Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tod_des_Spartacus_by_Hermann_Vogel.jpg History Dispatches is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on History Dispatches? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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