97 - Spartacus: When Gladiators Attacked Rome Itself

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who escaped his gladiatorial school in Capua with about 70 other gladiators and slaves and then led a slave rebellion against the armies of Rome in the 1st century BCE , commanding a fighting force that grew to an army of 90,000–120,000 strong. We explore his fight and the interesting history of Roman gladiatorial combat in today's Suck. Men (and women!) facing off against each other in arenas, forums, and coliseums in fights that often lasted until severe injury or the death. Insane emperors, trident-wielding warriors, spear-wielding elephants, and so much more in today's tale of Roman debauchery and the man who almost took down a Republic. My new free Behind the Bit Pandora station with Chad Daniels talking about our favorite bits! https://www.pandora.com/station/play/3978690913982414208?ag=17920720304261509 Timesuck is brought to you today by The Great Courses Plus! Do yourself a HUGE favor and get SO MUCH amazing, interesting, and informative content for FREE: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/timesuck Timesuck is also brought to you by HIMS! Get a trial month of everything you need to keep your hair - for just $5 today, right now while supplies last, by going to https://www.forhims.com/timesuck Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 2600 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator, a slave who brought war to the ruling powers of Rome.
0:05.9	He escaped from a gladiatorial training school at Capua, a little north of Naples,
0:10.0	along with some 70 other gladiators in 73 BCE, and initially they were just armed with whatever
0:15.4	tools they could grab from the gladiator schools, kitchen as they ran out. Nives, cleavers,
0:20.4	anything else they felt they could kill with. Other runaway slaves who'd join them and they quickly
0:25.2	got a hold of proper gladiatorial weapons. Taking refuge on Mount Vesuvius, that volcano that
0:30.3	would later bury the town of Pompeii, the gladiators trained the other slaves who'd join them
0:34.3	in rudimentary combat skills. Spartacus is believed to have been the primary leader of his new army
0:40.0	and beneath him two goals, Crixus and Animos. Initially Rome didn't consider Spartacus and his
0:45.1	rogue slave army to be much of a threat and they didn't send in the A team to deal with them.
0:49.6	They sent in some scrubs to be team, some are like team, the development league army,
0:54.1	and Spartacus' army outmaneuvered and defeated the first four forces they confronted.
0:59.6	And then his new slave army grew tremendously in size. More slaves continued to swell his ranks
1:05.6	with each victory and at its peak his army is believed to have been 90 to 120,000 strong.
1:12.0	At one point Spartacus and his army could have braved the Alps to the north of Italy,
1:16.0	headed back to freedom in their homelands but they didn't. They attacked the Roman Empire
1:20.1	instead. And how did that work out? Well, you're going to have to listen to find out.
1:25.0	Time to learn not only about the life and bloody times of Spartacus but also about the history
1:28.8	of Roman gladiatorial combat. Today on an equal parts testosterone and history on my signal
1:35.8	unleash hell edition of TimeSuck. Happy Monday TimeSuckers! Happy beginning of what's
1:49.7	going to be a kick ass week for you suck heads. Or maybe it'll be a terrible week. I don't know,
1:54.7	what am I? Sussere? Who am I the oracle of Delphi? One of those many ridiculous palm readers,
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