Film Review: Spartacus
Submitted by on January 1, 1999
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What is clearly justified by the historical sources
In Stanley Kubrick's film of Spartacus, many events that are documented in the
historical sources are accurately portrayed. In the film, we see Spartacus and other
slaves seize kitchen implements from the cookhouse in which they are eating and
attack the guards. This is clearly justified by Plutarch in Fall of the Roman Empire;
"seventy-eight, who realised this, managed to act in time and get away, armed with
choppers and spits which they seized from some cookhouse".
The film shows that in the summer of 73 BC, "about seventy slaves escaped from
Batiatus's training school at Capua and established a defensible position on Mount
Vesuvius some thirty kilometres away. " This is clearly justified by the historical sources
and is accurately...