Barry Strauss - The Spartacus War

Hermann (Arminius)

Highway:

Highway:

Hindu Kush Mountains

Hispania Citerior

Hispania Ulterior

Hollywood

Homer

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Horatius

horses

Hortensius

Illyrians

Imachara

imperator as title of honour

Ionian coast

Ionian Sea

Irpinia

Italian citizens as volunteer gladiators

Italian nationalists

Italian subsistence farmers

Italians in rebel army

Italy, snakes in

Italy, winter in

Jerusalem, siege of (AD)

Jesus (gladiator)

Judaea

Jugurtha, King of Numidia

kitchens, Roman

knights, mounted

Lactarii (Lattari) Mountains

lanistae (gladiatorial entrepreneurs)

latifundia (‘wide fields’ - country estates)

latro (‘thief’, ‘bandit’, ‘highwayman’, guerrilla soldier’, ‘insurgent’)

Lattari (Lactarii) Mountains

Lentula

Lentulus Clodianus, Gnaeus Cornelius

Licinii family

lictors (Roman officials’ attendants)

Lilybaeum (Marsala)

Livy

Locris

loot, acquisition of

Lucania (Basilicata)

lake in

north-western

northern hills

Lucanian horses

Lucanians

Lucullus, Lucius Licinius

Lucullus, Marcus

Lucullus, Marcus Terentius Varro

ludus (gladiatorial enterprise - ‘school’)

Lusitania

Lusitanians

Macedonia

Machiavelli

Maedi tribe

Magdalene Mountains (Monti della Maddalena)

Magna Graecia (‘Greater Greece’)

managers of country estates

Manlius, Cnaeus

Marcellus, Marcus Claudius

Marcius Rufus, Quintus

Marco, Plains of

Marians

Marius

wife of

Marius (inhabitant of Vibo Valentia)

maroon communities

Marsala (Lilybaeum)

Marseilles (Massilia)

Martha (Syrian prophetess)

Marzano, Mount

Massilia (Marseille)

Melìa Ridge (Dossone della Melìa)

Messana (Messina)

Messina, Strait of

Metapontum (Metaponto)

temple of Apollo

Metauros, Plain of (Gióia Tauro)

Metellus, Lucius Caecilius

Metellus Pius, Quintus Caecilius

Milo

Mithridates, King of Pontus

Mithridatic Wars

Modena (Mutina)

Moesian tribe

Monastir (Ruspina), Tunisia

Monte del Papa (Pope’s Mountain)

Monti della Maddalena (Magdalene Mountains)

Mount Aetna (Etna)

Mount Camalatrum

Mount Cantenna

Mount Garganus (Gargano)

Mount Marzano

Mount Ogna

Mount Soprano

Mount Vesuvius

Grand Cone

Monte Somma

slave-run estates around

Mount Vultur (Vulture)

Mummius

musical instrument, tibia

Mutina (Modena)

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nares Lucanae

nationalists, Italian

Nocera (Nuceria)

Nola

Novius family

Nuceria (Nocera)

Numantia

Numidian cavalry

Octavius, Gaius

Odrysian people

Oenomaus

Ofanto (Aufidus) River

Ogna massif

Oliveto Citra

Olympias

opportunists

Orange, France

Orchomenus, Battle of (85 BC)

Orpheus and Orphic religion

Oscan language

ovation celebration

Padus River see Po River

Paestum

Palermo (Panormus)

Partenio Mountains

Parthians

pathfinders

peltasts (lightly armed Thracian infantrymen)

Perperna, Marcus

Petelia

Peteline Mountains

Pharsalus, Battle of (48 BC)

Philippus

Picenti, Agri

Picentia

Picentine guide

Picentini Mountains

Picenum, Battle of (72 BC)

pirates

Plain of Metauros (Gióia Tauro)

Plain of Sybaris

Plains of Aspromonte

Plains of Marco

Plutarch

Po (Padus) River

plain

Polla

Pollino Mountains

Pompeians

Pompeii

fresco at

gladiatorial ludus

small farms around

Spartacus painting in

veteran soldiers in

Pompey, Sextus

Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus)

Pomptinus, Caius

Pope’s Mountain (Monte del Papa)

Portugal

Poseidonia

praetors

prayer before battle

prisoners of war

prophetesses

‘proscription’

Ptolemy31

Publipor

Puglia (Apulia)

Punic War, Second (218-201 BC)

Punta Pezzo (Cape Caenys)

Puteoli (Pozzuoli)

Pydna, Battle of (168 BC)

Pythagoras

quaestors (financial officials)

Quinctius, Lucius

rebel army

achievements

after final battle

Apennine Mountains battle

on the Appian Way

Aspromonte Mountains, wins clash in

attack on Roman camp at Vesuvius

attack on Varinius’s force

battle with joint consular army

battles against army

beginnings of

breakaway contingent defeat at Battle of Cantenna

breakout from Aspromonte Mountains

in Bruttium

camp left deserted

Campus Atinas, raping and pillaging in

Capuans driven off

cavalry

Celts in

cohesion

commanders, choosing

Crassus’s force encounters

Crixus’s army crushed by

crucifixions after defeat

defeated at Battle of the Silarus

desire to fight Roman army

equipment captured

fugitives join

Germans in

Glaber sent to put down

heads for Samnium

heads south

heads south again

internal divisions

leadership

marches northwards

marches to the sea

new recruits

‘nobles’ in

numbers, estimated

pathfinders

plans to cross to Sicily

possible mutiny in

pre-battle rituals

pursued after Cantenna battle

rafts, men build and try to cross to Sicily on

raids

raids on Roman camps

reaches the Ionian coast

respect for Spartacus’s authority

retreat into Aspromonte Mountains

retreat to Peteline Mountains

Roman attitude towards

Rome’s response to

splits into two groups

survivors at large

Thracians in

Thurii conquered

training newcomers

unit insignia designations

at Vesuvius

on Via Annia

weapons, improvised

Regium (ReggioCalabria)

religions and lunar cycles

Roccadaspide

Roman army

against guerrilla warfare

and Apennine Mountains battle

Aspromonte Mountains, clash with rebels in

auxilia units

battle formation see Roman army: tactics

Battle of Arausio (105 BC)

Battle of Cantenna

Battle of the Silarus preparations for

battles against rebels

camp attacked by rebels

camps and defences

and Capuan slave revolt (104 BC)

centurions

chickens considered sacred to

cohorts

commanders, new, chosen

commanders enabled to reward bravery with citizenship

Crassus’s force encounters rebels

cremation of dead after battle

decimation discipline practice revived

discipline in

eagles

failures

farmers in

fasces (bundle of rods)

fighting wars (73 BC)

joint consular army battle

legionaries

legions

losses

marches south under Crassus

in northern Lucanian hills

Numidian cavalry

pursuit of rebel army

recruiting officers (conquisitores)

refuses to accept defeat

sent to put down gladiators’ revolt

size of

slave legions

standard-bearers

standards

tactics

under Varinius sent after rebels