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12 unusual facts about Spartacus


Anthony Flanagan

Flanagan appeared in the BBC TV docudrama Heroes and Villains as Spartacus, first broadcast in 2008.

Bad Bush

Starring Chris Sadrinna from television soap Home and Away and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor from Sea Patrol and featuring Viva Bianca from Spartacus: Blood and Sand in her debut feature film, the film is based on the real-life story centred on a young woman with her baby alone with a crazed man on a property.

Battle of Ruspina

Pompey had stolen the credit the victory of the Romans over the slave army of Spartacus after returning from a mission in the east which was given to him by the Senate.

Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece–Spartacus

In the Greek legislative election, 2012 it broke with the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International which decided to switch support from Antarsya to Syriza.

Peter Stothard

In 2010 his memoir On the Spartacus Road combined an account of the Spartacus uprising with elements of autobiography.

S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago

Here Caesar and Antony meet the soldier Spartacus who organizes a rebellion against Rome and the two friends join the prisoners.

Spartacist

An ancient supporter of Spartacus, who led a slave rebellion against the Roman Empire

Spartacus le Gladiateur

Spartacus le Gladiateur (meaning Spartacus the Gladiator in French) is a musical Elie Chouraqui and Maxime Le Forestier based on the story of Spartacus.

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena

Josef Brown as Auctus – a gladiator and Barca's lover who is killed by Crixus.

Spartacus: Vengeance

Brett Tucker as Publius Varinius, Glaber's chief political rival and fellow praetor.

Spartacus: War of the Damned

The series was inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus (played by Liam McIntyre from second season and Andy Whitfield in first season), a Thracian gladiator who, from 73 to 71 BCE, led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.

Susanna Moodie

She wrote her first children's book in 1822, and published other children's stories in London, including books about Spartacus and Jugurtha.


Anna Podlesnaya

Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Clara and Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Pas de deux and Giselle (Giselle), Princess Florina and Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Phrygia (Spartacus), Seventh and Eleventh Waltzes (Les Sylphides).

Argentine painting

The Spartacus Group (Grupo Espartaco) was founded by Ricardo Carpani, Juan Manuel Sánchez, and Mario Mollari, among others.

Craig Parker

Craig Parker (born 12 November 1970) is an actor from New Zealand, best known for his roles as Haldir in The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Two Towers (2003), Darken Rahl in Legend of the Seeker (2008–10) and Gaius Claudius Glaber in Spartacus.

Emilio Ruiz del Río

Among Ruiz del Río's achievements was to consistently work with a number of higher profile directors, including with Stanley Kubrick on Spartacus (1960), George Cukor on Travels with My Aunt (1970), Orson Welles on Mr. Arkadin (1955), and Guillermo del Toro on Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006).

Gaius Claudius Glaber

by John Dall as "Glabrus", a character loosely based on Glaber, in the 1960 film Spartacus

George Wang

In January 2011, Wang produced a sci-fi action-oriented project entitled "3 Minutes" with director Ross ching and fellow producer Don Le, starring Harry Shum, Jr., Stephen "tWitch" Boss (contestant on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, and Katrina Law (Spartacus: Blood and Sand, The Resistance).

Gladiator: Son of Spartacus

Gladiator: Son of Spartacus is the third book in the Gladiator Series, by Simon Scarrow.

John Bach

In 2010 Bach appeared in NZ science fiction series This Is Not My Life as the sinister Harry Sheridan, as magistrate Titus Calavius in Spartacus: Blood and Sand and in an episode of Legend of the Seeker.

Jonathan Fast

His father, Howard Fast (1914-2003), was the author of many best-selling novels, including Spartacus (1951), which became the basis for the 1960 film of the same name.

Lentulus Batiatus

Ian McNeice played Batiatus in the 2004 television adaptation Spartacus.

Liam McIntyre

McIntyre was chosen as the replacement for Andy Whitfield in the title role for the Starz television series Spartacus.

Simon Merrells

Simon Merrells (born 1966) is an English actor best known for his portrayal of Marcus Licinius Crassus in Spartacus: War of the Damned.

Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua

Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua is a rhetorical monologue written by Elijah Kellogg for a student competition at Bowdoin College in 1842, and later published by Epes Sargent, one of the judges, in his 1846 School Reader.

Stanley Kubrick Archive

His films are: Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

Todd Lasance

In 2012, Lasance played the role of the young Julius Caesar in the third and final season of the American historical action television series Spartacus: War of the Damned.