Pinning down Spartacus - Mary Beard

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The New York Review of Books has a nice article by Mary Beard entitled Pinning Down Spartacus. It is ostensibly a review of the English translation of Aldo Schiavone's book Spartacus (which sounds really interesting), but it is also a great overview of current scholarly and public opinion.

My favourite line from the article:

As a basic rule of thumb, the longer a book on Spartacus is, the less historically accurate it is likely to be.