![]() Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees. ![]() Historically very little is known about Spartacus. ![]() ![]() The first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC. ![]()
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