Classical era · 73 BCE – 71 BCE

Third Servile War

The Third Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic known as the Servile Wars. This third rebellion was the only one that directly threatened the Roman heartland of Italy. It was particularly alarming to Rome because its military seemed powerless to suppress it.

Third Servile War
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When
73 BCE – 71 BCE
Where
Italian Peninsula
Era
Classical

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