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# Spartacus and the Slave Wars: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

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    Short but highly informative
  

*by G***E on Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2008*

The old adage that history is  more often than not written by the victor is nowhere more highlighted than in the conflicts that arose between the Roman Republic and its slaves.Be aware that Spartacus dominates maybe only a quarter of the book. That said the author has titled it "Spartacus ad the Slave Wars" and not "Spartacus". The uninitiated may be surprised to realise that slave uprisings werent isolated to the Spartacus revolt but occured several times between 2nd and 1st C BC and on reasonable scales as to be a serious threat to Roman psyche.So 3/4 of the work is for contextural purpose: Capturing the background,value, usage and life of slaves and their positive and negative contribution on Ancient Rome. It also examines social attitudes and bias of Romans and non Romans to the slave and nowhere is this captured more than in the source documents that make up the bulk of this work.Narrative by the author is short once one passes the introduction chapter (that has some nice black and white maps covering the Spartacan slave war as well as slave routes in the Ancient Med), more often just pretext to lead the reader into the relevance of the document so one can assess the background events, setting, time frame etc it pertains to. The source documents can cover anything between a mere paragraph onwards to several pages. Written by statesmen, writers, historians, etc they are plucked from several centuries of contributors(2nd C BC - end of Empire)and give the work a more reliable and historical feel than if the book were simply endless narrative to limited references leading to conjecture by a modern historian.Yes its not solely about Spartacus but that is what makes it more interesting, for after combing through several pages of source documents purely about the Spartacan rebellion one will realise that the story is essentially twisted around the same loop and wisely Mr Shaw has not devoted the whole work to it. Of Spartacus the man, only a third party view from a Roman perspective exists and of his rebellion, the essential differences in the sources are often the contempt or praise (pending their performance) of the main Roman protagonists chosen to lead efforts to suppress it. Only modern times and popular culture has restored/saved a more sympathetic view of Spartacus (as covered in the introduction). No doubt he had his admirers then too but those opinions if expressed are long gone. Overall this work is a reminder that good things come in small packages.

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    Very Brief History, Good Documents
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2014*

When Brent Shaw says "a brief history", he means brief.This could have used a bit more in the history part, especially on Spartacus and the revolt he led since his name is in the title of the work.While there was good information in the first part, to me the real strength of this work is the second part which contains translated primary sources.It is a useful source for anyone studying this period, but don't expect too much in the way of detail.

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    I was disappointed that most of the focus was not on Spartacus
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2018*

To be honest, I only read half of this book. I was disappointed that most of the focus was not on Spartacus, but rather the all three slave wars, which is very informative, but I wanted more about Spartacus, but then again, I still need to read the other half of the book!

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