Spartacus: The Slave Revolt That Set Up Rome's Collapse

Podcast: The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show · Jeremy Ryan Slate

Opublikowano: 2026-09-21

Hollywood sold you a hero in chains. Forget it. That's not what broke Rome. What broke Rome was what happened after Rome won. By 73 BC, Rome had stopped running on its citizens. It was running on slaves. Around a fifth of the peninsula was enslaved. In whole districts of Lucania and Apulia, the men working the land outnumbered the men who owned it by margins that should have frightened somebody. So when 78 gladiators broke out of a school in Capua with kitchen knives and...