
Spartacus
73 v. Chr.
Adrian Franklin(Author)
BoD - Books on Demand (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-3-7460-3515-4 (ISBN)
Description
Prologue
"...some are marked out for subjection... he, who is by nature not his own but another's man, is by nature a slave; and he may be said to be another's man who, being a human being, is also a possession."
Aristotle, Politics, 1254b1-21.
Year 73 B.C.
Nothing foretold an uprising when a small group of gladiators managed their escape from the school in Capua. Quickly, a widespread uprising emerges that spreads throughout the entire country.
Under the leadership of the Thracian Spartacus, they defeated the Roman legions time and time again, - forces renowned for their victories across the known world.
Pressing forward as far as the Alps, then turning south again, in an attempt to escape the peninsula.
Spartacus, a Thracian, not really tangible from the mists of history, - compared to Hannibal or Alexander, there are hardly any written records about him.
Hannibal is, above all, the battle of Cannae. Spartacus has no recorded battle that eclipses all others, no crossing of the Alps, only a tale told in familiar strains, shaped more by legend than by history.
This novel attempts to portray the uprising as, -»The Attempt Of The Impossible«.
The film Blade-Runner (despite a completely different genre) has been a blueprint for the form of making the impossible, subtly, visible. There is no similarity to the plot, or the characters, it is the form/idea of depicting the impossibility of an undertaking.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Norderstedt
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7460-3515-4 (9783746035154)
Schweitzer Classification
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Author
Adrian Franklin is a pseudonym.
Aside this book a german edition of this novel was already published.