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![]() ![]() This revolt, though bloodily crushed, has inspired revolutionary movements. ![]() Unlike the fictional Gladiator which opposes the central character and his small band of gladiators to the truly wicked emperor Commodus, the real slave revolt saw 100,000 or more slaves waging war on their Roman oppressors and defeating the seeming invincible legions time and time again. Any inquiry into this question has to raise the spectre of the slave war between 73 and 71 BC, which was lead by the gladiator Spartacus. The world wide success of the film Gladiator has generated a renewed interested in Ancient Rome and the role of gladiators.
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