Bettany Hughes relates the events of 73BC when a Thracian gladiator started a slave revolt that so panicked the Roman elite that they offered power to a single man, foreshadowing Rome's slide into dictatorship.
Bettany Hughes looks at the day Spartacus broke out of gladiator school and started the most terrifying slave revolt in Roman history; Hughes examines the realities of slavery in ancient Rome and how Sparacus' exploits attracted a mass following.
