Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Spartacus
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Spartacus
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Spartacus, the gladiator who led a major slave rebellion against the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. He was an accomplished military leader, and the campaign he led contributed significantly to the instability of the Roman state in this period. Spartacus was celebrated by some ancient historians and reviled by others, and became a hero to revolutionaries in 19th-century Europe. Modern perceptions of his character have been influenced by Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film - but ancient sources give a rather more complex picture of Spartacus and the aims of his rebellion.
With:
Mary Beard
Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge
Maria Wyke
Professor of Latin at University College, London
Theresa Urbainczyk
Associate Professor of Classics at University College, Dublin.
Producer: Victoria Brignell.
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.5
18131,813 ratings
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Spartacus, the gladiator who led a major slave rebellion against the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. He was an accomplished military leader, and the campaign he led contributed significantly to the instability of the Roman state in this period. Spartacus was celebrated by some ancient historians and reviled by others, and became a hero to revolutionaries in 19th-century Europe. Modern perceptions of his character have been influenced by Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film - but ancient sources give a rather more complex picture of Spartacus and the aims of his rebellion.
With:
Mary Beard
Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge
Maria Wyke
Professor of Latin at University College, London
Theresa Urbainczyk
Associate Professor of Classics at University College, Dublin.
Producer: Victoria Brignell.
More shows like In Our Time: History
View all
In Our Time
5,412 Listeners
History Extra podcast
3,196 Listeners
Thinking Allowed
308 Listeners
Great Lives
500 Listeners
In Our Time: Culture
602 Listeners
In Our Time: Science
723 Listeners
In Our Time: Religion
279 Listeners
In Our Time: Philosophy
866 Listeners
The History Hour
591 Listeners
Dan Snow's History Hit
4,694 Listeners
The Ancients
3,058 Listeners
The Rest Is History
13,109 Listeners
Gone Medieval
1,764 Listeners
Not Just the Tudors
1,983 Listeners
Manchester Arena Bomb: Stories of Hope
0 Listeners
When I Was 25
0 Listeners
Би-Би-Си Кыргыз кызматы 25 жыл ободо
0 Listeners
Dad Boys with Dave Elliott and Shane Todd
2 Listeners
QUB Talks 100 – The Partition of Ireland: Causes and Consequences
0 Listeners
Descendants
13 Listeners
The Listening Project
6 Listeners
The Great Post Office Trial
32 Listeners
Siarad Moel: Podlediad Aled Hughes
1 Listeners
Що це було
4 Listeners
Empire
2,107 Listeners