![]() If, similarly, it was a barren masterpiece that ended in final disaster, that also was due to circumstances that lay in the nature of the times. Spartacus’ final campaign, his ‘1814’ so to speak, was as brilliant as was Napoleon’s swan-song in that year. Even from our extant fragmentary accounts, it is clear that Spartacus displayed, throughout, military genius of the highest order, coupled with that personal magnanimity in coming to the aid even of deserters, that we have already noted in the case of Crixus. If it ended in the victory of Rome, this was at least as much due to the endemic insubordination characteristic of a slave army composed of many nationalities as it was to the military power of the Roman war machine. The campaign that raged through the early months of 71 BC was swift, bloody and ruthless. It was a fight to the finish between Spartacus and Crassus, between Rome and the revolution. The final act in the tremendous drama represented by the Servile War had now opened. Francis Ambrose Ridley 1944 Chapter V: The Death of Spartacus – And the Appian Way Spartacus: A Study in Revolutionary History. Spartacus: A Study in Revolutionary History by Francis Ambrose Ridley 1944
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