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EarlierAristotle Tutors Alexander at Mieza343 BC
LaterTrajan's Column Completed113 AD
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Spartacus (c. 103 – 71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Historical accounts of his life come primarily from Plutarch and Appian, who wrote more than a century after his death. Plutarch's Life of Crassus and Appian's Civil Wars provide the most detailed accounts of the slave revolt.

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