HI346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, Gaius Claudius Glaber, Third Servile War
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Not so current events: 73 bce: the beginning of the third serville war (the spartacus rebellion); rome dispatched a military force under praetorian authority to put down the slave rebellion. Gaius claudius glaber, gathered a force of 3,000 men, not regular legions, but militia, picked up haste at random. Vesuvius, blocking the only known way down the mountain. Spartacus" men made ropes and ladders from vines and trees growing on the slopes of vesuvius and used them to rappel down the cliffs on the side of the mountain opposite glaber"s forces. They moved around the base of vesuvius and used them to rappel down the cliffs to the side of the mountain opposite glaber"s forces. The forces were defeated by the army of escaped slaves: 3rd mithridatic war; fought between mitridates iv of pontus, who was joined by his allies, and the roman republic.
