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Capua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, located on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain on the Volturno river. The town was founded af
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Spartacus
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Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
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…remained proverbial, and Campania was especially noted as the home of gladiatorial combat. It was from the gladiatorial schools of the region that Spartacus and his followers emerged during their revolt in 73 BC. In 59 BC, Julius Caesar, serving as consul, established a Roman colony in the territory—named…
Statue depicting Spartacus by Denis Foyatier (1830)
A 19th-century depiction of the fall of Spartacus by the Italian Nicola Sanesi (1818–1889)
The Death of Spartacus by Hermann Vogel (1882)
Viva Spartaco, Spartaco a Rosarno: graffiti connecting Spartacus with 2010 Rosarno riots between locals and migrant farm workers