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.
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Spartacus: it's no slave to the truth, but it's got the spirit
Who Killed the Legend of Spartacus? History and the Marketing of Spartacus: Bryn Mawr Classical Review Table of Contents Introduction: The Historical Meaning of Spartacus: Spartacus, Exodus, and Dalton Trumbo: Managing Ideologies of War: Spartacus, Rebel Against Rome: The Character of Marcus Licinius Crassus: Roman Slavery and the Class Divide: The Holy Cause of Freedom: American Ideals in Spartacus: Spartacus and the Stoic Ideal of Death: Francisco Javier Tovar Paz Plutarch, Crassus and Pompey Appian, The Civil Wars 1.
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Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History 2. Florus, Epitome of Roman History 2. Poor Laurence Oliver, doing his best to project thinly iced evil as Crassus, doesn't stand a chance. Incidentally, the film's suggestion that Crassus engaged Spartacus as a gladiator is fiction.
Ancient historian Plutarch does agree that Batiatus was a cruel master, though, and that the slave rebellion began in the gladiator school kitchen. In the next scene, it does, complete with Romans being pelted with pots, thrown into the impluvium, and drowned in vats of baked beans. The escaped rebels have a fine old time looting on the escarpments of Vesuvius, but Spartacus wants to turn them into a guerrilla force and liberate Europe: And yet, though he has been seized upon by everyone from Karl Marx to, well, Kirk Douglas as an icon of freedom, there is no evidence that Spartacus planned a social revolution, nor even to end slavery.
Meanwhile, Crassus attempts to seduce his own slave, Antoninus Tony Curtis , with a creepy metaphor about whether he prefers eating oysters or eating snails. Antoninus is so grossed out that he joins the revolt. This scene — historically baseless, but cinematically remarkable — was cut from the original release. When it was restored in the s the audio had been lost, so the lines had to be redubbed by an ageing Tony Curtis, and by Anthony Hopkins doing his best Laurence Olivier impression.
It's not bad at all, but the hint of Hannibal Lecter does add to the scene's menace.