Melitta spartacus biography roman
Melitta spartacus biography roman
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Crixus
Gallic gladiator and military leader (d. 72 BC)
Crixus (died 72 BC) was a Gallic gladiator and military leader in the Third Servile War between the Roman Republic and rebel slaves.
Born in Gaul, he was enslaved by the Romans under unknown circumstances and trained as a gladiator in Capua.[1] His name means "one with curly hair" in Gaulish.[2][3]
Biography
In 73BC, Crixus was part of what started as a small slave revolt in the gladiatorial training school of Lentulus Batiatus in Capua, in which about 70 gladiators escaped.
The escaped slaves defeated a small force sent to recapture them, then made camp on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Spartacus history
Word of the escaped gladiators' revolt spread, and other escaped slaves started to join their ranks. At this time, the band of former slaves chose Crixus—with the ThracianSpartacus, and the Gaul Oenomaus—as one of their leaders. Later in the rebellion, another Gaul, Castus, and Celtic former gladiator Ganni