Spartacus, History and Tradition

Despite the convergence between the title of the conference and the book discussed here, at first glance it is plain to see that this publication constitutes an autonomous whole, as well as an ambitious attempt to capture the issues connected with Spartacus as a historical character, comprehensively, in all their complexity, and also to tackle the difficult issue of the "posthumous works" of the Thracian slave. We must note that researchers on Spartacus are confronted with two ideologies, o...