EPISODE 1 The Slave Wars (Part 1)

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 116 minutes

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In the space of a few decades, three major slave wars threatened the Roman Republic. In this episode, we see how the greed of land speculators, tax collectors and slave owners unleashed an orgy of bloodshed as tens of thousands of escaped slaves went to battle against Rome’s armies. Part I of this story covers the first two of the servile wars, and features political intrigues, fire-breathing Syrian prophets, cannibalism, love struck aristocrats arming their slaves, and heroic mass suicides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether you like history or not, if you care about bravery, wisdom, passion, larger than life characters, and some of the most emotionally intense moments in human experience, you've come to the right place.
0:12.6	Danielle Bollelli is a university history professor, writer, and martial artist, and he shall be your guide in a journey to the place for history of Epic Goliath. I'm not Let's go say history on fire.
1:06.0	Capua is a town in southern Italy, just a few miles away from modern-day Naples.
1:12.6	There's a road there that was built in ancient times, known as the Appian Way, which connects Capua to Rome,
1:19.6	give or take, the distance is about 120, 125 miles.
1:25.6	If you happen to be there in the late spring of the 71, the year 71 before
1:31.4	Common Era, and you were to take your first step from Capua toward Rome, you'd immediately
1:37.6	run into the body of a man, nailed to a cross. Your ear should be struck by the mix of
1:43.7	screaming, crying, grunting, and all the other
1:47.7	noises that's legitimate to expect a human body to make when it has iron spikes piercing its
1:53.3	wrists and feet, and is left to hang from a piece of food with no water and food for days.
2:00.2	If this turbi-dies decide to walk a little further down the road, things are not
2:05.4	going to get any better. About 30 yards later you would run into another body knelt
2:10.7	across, same screaming, same crying, same grunting. Now, take what you just seen and heard and smelled and multiplied that first
2:22.6	crucifixion scene about 6,000 times, with one body every 30 to 40 yards all the way from
2:30.0	Capua to Rome. The entire road would appear from a distance as covered with some kind of signposts,
2:39.1	but once you go closer, you realize that every one of the signpost carries a human body.
2:44.7	They are all crosses with 6,000 crucified people on them.
2:50.7	That visual is how the last great slave rebellion in ancient
2:55.9	Rome ended. That's the finale to one of the most famous slave wars in ancient history.
3:04.2	This is Partacus rebellion. Not only one of the most famous slave wars in ancient
3:09.8	history, this is really one of the greatest wars of resistance ever. You know, there's a large
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