Barry Strauss - The Spartacus War

Arausio, Battle of (105 BC)

aristeia (story of warrior’s heroic deeds)

Arminius, Hermann

armour

Arrius, Quintus

Asia Minor

Asicius, Lucius

Aspromonte, Plains of

Aspromonte Mountains see also Melìa Ridge

Crassus’s fortifications in

Roman army meets rebels in (71 BC)

Atena Lucana (Atena Petilia), hills around

Aufidus (Ofanto) River

Augustus, Emperor (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)

Auriolus

Avella (Abella)

Bacchae, The

Bacchantessee also Dionysus, worshippers of

Bacchussee also Dionysus

bailiffs, plantation (vilici)

Balkans

bandits

Basilicata see Lucania

Batiatus, Lentulus (see Vatia)

battle, prayer before

battle, wine consumed before

battle tactics

Beneventum (Benevento)

Bessi tribe

Bible, Second Book of Maccabees

Bibracte, Battle of (58 BC)

Boudicca

Brindisi (Brundisium)

Bruttium (Calabria)

road in centre of

Buccino (Volcei)

Bulgaria

Caepio, Quintus Servilius

Caesar, Julius adopts Octavian (Augustus) celebration of triumph civil war with Pompey and Gallic people’s religion and Gaul and gladiators’ revolt kidnapped by pirates marches on Rome murder of qualities

Caggiano

Calabria see Bruttium

Callinicus, skirmish at (171 BC)

Camalatrum, Mount

Campania

Campania Felix

Campanian plain

Campus Atinas (ValloDiano)

Cannae, Battle of (216 BC)

Cannicus (Gannicus)

Cantenna, Battle of (71 BC)

Cantenna, Mount

Capaccio

Cape Caenys (Punta Pezzo)

Cape Pelorus (Peloro)

Caposele

Capua

amphitheatre

city market

crucifixion of slaves after revolt

as gladiatorial games center

gladiators in, after the war

gladiators’ revolt

highways from

Novius’s house

police force

Sabbio’s townhouse

slave revolt (104 BC)

slaves in

Thracian lady in

Vatia, house of see Vatia, Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulus

Capuans

Carrhae, Battle of (53 BC)

Case Romano

Cassius

Cassius Longinus, Gaius

Castelcivita‘

Castus

Catiline

Cato ‘the Censor’ (Marcus Porcius Cato)

Cato the Elder

Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato)

Catona (Statio ad Statuam)

Caudine Forks, Battle of the (321 BC)

Celadus

celebration, Saturnalia

Celtic armies before battle

Celtic refugees

Celtic women

Celts

Balkan

in battle

battle as religious act

at feasts

as gladiators

height of

horse sacred to

ideal of hero’s death on battlefield

migrating

rebel army breakaway contingent

reputation as herdsmen

rituals

sacrifice prisoners of war

as slaves

and suicide in defeat

warlike nature

as warriors

centurions

Charybdis and Scylla, myth of

Chiusa Grande

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

and Verres

Cilento Hills

Cilicia

Cilicians

Cimbri tribe, women of

Cisalpine Gaul

clairvoyants

Clanis (Clanio) River

Claudian

Cleopatra

Colliano

Colline Gate, Battle of the (82 BC)

Columella

Compsa (Conza)

Consentia (Cosenza)

consuls

Contrada Romano

Contursi Terme hot springs

Conza (Compsa)

Copia see Thurii

Corbulo

Coscile River see Sybaris River

Cosenza (Consentia)

Cossinius, Lucius

country estates, managers of

country estates, slaves on

Crassus, Marcus Licinius

Aspromonte Mountains, clash with rebels in

Aspromonte Mountains, fortifications in

attack on breakaway rebel army

Battle of Cantenna

pursuit of rebels after

Battle of the Silarus after battle preparations for

bust of

career

character

Cicero praises

death of

defeat of breakaway rebel army

forces Spartacus to retreat

grandfather ‘Agelastus’

and his legions

marches south

and Mummius’s defeat

officers

ovation celebration

and prolonged struggle with Spartacus

punishment for slaves after revolt

and the rebels’ crossing to Sicily

recruiting

return of

revives decimation discipline practice

rivalry with Pompey

Spartacus offers peace treaty

and split in rebel army

strategy against Spartacus

wages war against Marians

wants confrontation with Spartacus

and war in Spain

wealth

Crassus, Publius

Crathis (Crati) River

valley

Crete

Crixus

army crushed

compromise with Spartacus

defeated

funeral games

leads rebel group in the south

crucifixions

meaning

procedure

relics saved from

Cumae

Curio, Gaius Scribonius

Danube River

Darius, king of Persia

Diana Tifata temple

Didius, Titus

Dionysus (god of Thrace)

worshippers of

Dositheus

Dossone della Melìa (Melìa Ridge)

Drusus, Marcus Livius

Eboli (Eburum)

Eburian (Eboli) Hills

elephants

emergency (tumultus)

Ephesus, Turkey, gladiators’ cemetery

estates, country (latifundia)

Etna, Mount

Etruria (Tuscany)

Familia Gladiatoria Lentuli Vatiae (Lentulus Vatia’s Family of Gladiators) see Vatia, Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulus: gladiatorial barracks

farm workers

farmer-soldiers

farmers, Italian subsistence

fides relationship (‘protection’; ‘faith’; ‘trust’)

Flaccus

Floralia

Florus (gladiator)

Florus (writer)

foraging

Forum Annii

free men

Furius, Lucius

Gallic warriors’ grave

Gannicus (Cannicus)

Garganus (Gargano), Mount

Gaul

Gauls

Gavius, Publius

Gellius, Lucius

GenzanoLucania

German battle cry

German refugees

German women

Germans

in battle

contempt for death

height of

and hero’s death

horse sacred to

migrating

in rebel army

rebel army breakaway contingent

sacrifice prisoners of war

as slaves

and women’s religious authority

Germany

Getae tribe

Gióia Tauro (Plain of Metauros)

Giungano

Glaber, Caius Claudius

gladiatorial enterprise (ludus - ‘school’)

gladiatorial entrepreneurs (lanistae)

gladiatorial games, Spartacus gives

gladiatorial games run by private enterprise

gladiatorial matches

death blow

gladiators’ cry

prizes

producer (editor)

referee and assistant (summa rudis and seconda rudis)

thumbs gesture

gladiators

Celtic

diet

escape from Vatia’s barracks

family relationship

‘fight to the death’ (sine missione)

heavyweight (murmillones)

heavyweight (thraex)

Italian citizen volunteers as

life expectancy

life of

moved out of Rome

oath of

origins

in Pompeii

rewards for

Roman attitude towards

Thraciansee also Spartacus

training

gladiators’ revolt see rebel army

Gorgias

Gracchi brothers

grape crops

grape-vine, wild (vitis vinifera sylvestris)

Gratidanus, Marius

Greece

Greek kings

Greeks

Grumentum

guerrillas

Gulf of Tarentum (Taranto)

Hannibal

Herachthinus

Heraclea

vase and contents

Heracleo

Herculaneum

herdsmen