Third Servile War
                     Third Servile War
• Third Servile War also known the Spartacus War, the 
Romans lost the first battles to a growing army of 
escaped slaves, the first of which were escaped 
gladiators.
•  In a series of engagements, the army of Spartacus 
initially fared well, but a change in the Roman 
leadership led to victory for the Romans.
•  Punishment for the rebels was severe. Howard fast 
wrote a book, “Spartacus” which although initially 
privately published (he had been sanctioned by the 
McCarthy Hearings) became a bestseller and major 
epic movie
• The impact was that it empowered Pompey and 
Crassus and strengthened their rivalry which 
Julius Caesar used for his own advantage by 
convincing them to create the Triumvirate. 
• This helped Caesar become wealthy and 
eventually led to his command in Gaul which 
both Pompey and Crassus later regretted for 
making him too powerful.
As for slavery, the thought would likely 
not even cross a Roman’s mind. 
• Why? Because Roman life - and the life of all ancient civilizations - 
depended on slaves. Even the less well off Romans had slaves to 
help them on their farms or eke out their livings in the cities.
• There was no mechanization. No steam or wind power. If something 
had to be moved it had to be done by muscle power alone. And for 
most things that muscle power came from other human beings.
• Spartacus has been made into a hero in some quarters, but the 
uprising wasn’t about ending slavery. It was about Spartacus and his 
fellow slaves gaining their freedom. There isn’t any proof they were 
abolitionists and it’s unlikely given the state of the world at that time 
they would be
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Did any slaves escape death in the Third Servile War ?
• There’s always dribs and drabs, born survivors and lucky 
blighters, war is chaos. What happened to the women and the 
children the Roman’s were not so well organized. For instance 
Pompey was a Gallic Prince born in a Homogenous Gallic Province 
which was located in what we now see as Italy.
• Pompey was in complete and undisputed charge of a Romanesque 
but predominantly Gallic Army whose loyalty was only to him! Even 
though his nickname was the Butcher Boy he would look upon the 
soldiers in The Spartacus Army as prime recruitment material to 
reinforce his Legions not as objects of revenge
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