02-06-2009, 08:18 PM
Quote:I heard that he organized his men into cohorts like a true roman army, but how did he put bloody gladiators to such "civilized" army?
Did you read the novel by an Italian author, Giovanni Magnoli or something like that, dating from the 19th century? I just read this book in a German translation. Because in this novel it is discribed that Spartacus had organized his gladiators and slaves like a Roman "army". In contrary to this novel it was only about 70 gladiators who escaped from the ludus of the lanista Lentulus Batiatus but the gladiators had the functions of officers in Spartacus' "army".
