Spartacus

American  

[spahr-tuh-kuhs] / ˈspɑr tə kəs /

noun

1. died 71 b.c., Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.

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Spartacus British  

/ ˈspɑːtəkəs /

noun

1. died 71 _bc , Thracian slave, who led an ultimately unsuccessful revolt of gladiators against Rome (73–71 _bc )

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Spartacus Cultural  

1. A Roman slave of the first century b.c. He led an insurrection of slaves that defeated several Roman armies before being crushed.

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Example Sentences

A dozen years later, Lawless traded in her blade and leather bustier for a noblewoman’s silks and jewels in the original “Spartacus” season, “Blood and Sand,” contradicting the passive vision of high-born Roman femininity codified in movies like Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” and Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 version of “Spartacus,” posing them in draped fabrics and statement necklaces.

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Women like Lucretia set apart “Spartacus” in all versions from other modern fantasies of antiquity, including Scott’s moribund 2024 sequel “Gladiator II.”

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But a few, including the heroine of “Spartacus” creator Steven S. DeKnight’s latest chapter, seize their shadow of glory defiantly and in full view of those who would deny it to them.

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Throughout the first three seasons of “Spartacus,” however, Lawless’ Lucretia demonstrates that she knows her worth – although in this pitiless world, she behaves as the opposite of what some today would characterize as “a girl’s girl.”

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But if the once-dismissed “Spartacus” continues to win new viewers, it is because the series acknowledges that women can be warriors, queens and, in their way, formidable politicians.

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