Of his 34 bouts, 21 were victories, four were missus a loss, but when the gladiator is spared death by the audience , and nine were stans missus when both fighters were declared the winner. This went down as one of the most impressive records in gladiatorial history. He lived until the age of 30, when he was killed in the arena. The Gaul. Trained as a gladiator in Capua, Crixus formed part of a small slave revolt in the gladiatorial training school of Lentulus Batiatus, from which about 70 gladiators escaped.
The breakout escalated into what became the Third Servile War, a massive revolt led by Spartacus that convulsed the whole of Roman Italy. The slaves defeated a succession of Roman armies. Crixus was a leading slave general throughout.
Spartacus thought so highly of Crixus that he sacrificed captured Roman soldiers in his honour. Commodus is an interesting gladiator not mentioned on this list. He does not deserve to be here because he was not such a great fighter. He fought as a gladiator even though he was the emperor of Rome. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience.
Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets CSS if you are able to do so. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. Stanley Kubrick directed Kirk Douglas in the film Spartacus, released in World War One Centenary. Settings Sign out. While the Strait of Messina is small, being only two miles 3. He had reached the strait in the winter of BC, a time when the weather was colder. Additionally the Roman governor of Sicily, Gaius Verres, had fortified some of the best landing spots.
Spartacus needed two things, good boats and good sailors, to be able to land an advance party of his troops across the strait. The pirates, however, had other plans. Undeterred Spartacus ordered his troops to assemble boats of their own and, while they succeeded in building a number of them, their attempt to cross the strait failed, leaving his troops stuck on the Italian mainland. This left Spartacus with no choice but to take his force north to face a Roman leader more ruthless than any he had encountered before.
By the time Spartacus had reached the straits a new leader named Marcus Licinius Crassus had taken command of the Roman forces. Strauss notes that he was a wealthy individual, able to raise a large army and pay them, at least in part, out of his own pocket.
In his military life he was even more ruthless. Among his forces were the remnants of legions belonging to Gellius and Lentulus that had been previously defeated by Spartacus. Needless to say discipline tightened under Crassus. Rather than try and openly battle Spartacus in southern Italy he built a system of fortifications centred on the Melia Ridge in an effort to trap Spartacus and starve his troops. Spartacus responded to the situation by offering Crassus a peace treaty which Crassus swiftly rejected.
Perhaps seeing his own soldiers beginning to waver Spartacus stiffened their resolve by crucifying a Roman soldier where all could see. Ancient writers say that he lost thousands of soldiers in the break out. Furthermore a split emerged in the rebel camp. A dissident group led by Castus and Gannicus, which included many Celtic and German troops, broke away from Spartacus and set off on their own. In the spring of 71 BC things fell apart for Spartacus. Castus and Gannicus were defeated by Crassus, likely sometime before April, at the Battle of Cantenna.
Spartacus was now isolated further. What happened next is hard to explain. Spartacus could have tried for another port, or another part of Italy. His force was not completely trapped and he likely had at least 30, troops able to fight.
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