The Spartacus Road: A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy

The Spartacus Road: A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy by Stothard, Peter. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781590205785.

The name of Spartacus resounds through history. In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves led by Spartacus rose up in Italy. Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the worlds finest military forces between 73and 71 BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind. Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal, The Spartacus Road is a book like none other--at once a journalists notebook, a reflection on lifes fragility, including the authors own fight against cancer; and a classicists celebration. As he travels along the Spartacus Road and into the classical Italian landscape, Stothard breathes new life into a singular war in antiquity, recounting one of the greatest stories of the ages.