The Spartacus Road: A Personal Journey Through Ancient Italy
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In the final century of the first Roman Republic, an army of slaves undertook a historic revolt. Led by the gladiator Spartacus, its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the Roman legions between 73 and 71BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind. It is a road that stretches through 2,000 miles of Italian countryside and out into 2,000 years of world history.
In this inspiring and original memoir, the former editor of The Times, Peter Stothard, takes us on an extraordinary journey. The result is a book like none other: at once a journalist’s notebook, a classicist’s celebration, a survivor’s record of a near fatal cancer and the history of a unique and brutal war. As he travels along the Spartacus road—through the ruins of Capua to Vesuvius and the lost Greek cities of the Italian south—Stothard illuminates conflicting memories of times ancient and modern, breathing new life into one of the greatest stories of the ages.
Peter Stothard
Peter Stothard is editor of The Time Literary Supplement. He was born in 1951 and educated at Brentwood School, Essex, and Trinity College, Oxford. He was editor of The Times from 1992 to 2002, and has written widely on modern politics and ancient literature. He was voted Editor of the Year by Granada’s ‘What the Papers Say’ in 2000, and was knighted for services to newspapers in 2003. Harper Collins published his previous book, “30 Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair’s War “, in 2003.
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