{"id":91495,"date":"2021-04-11T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=91495"},"modified":"2021-04-11T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T08:01:49","slug":"who-was-spartacus","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/who-was-spartacus\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Spartacus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Spartacus<\/b>, the leader of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wojny\/powstania-niewolnikow-w-antycznym-rzymie\/powstanie-spartakusa\/\">the greatest slave revolt<\/a> in Roman history, was most likely of Thracian origin, as evidenced by his fighting style in the arenas. He was incorporated into the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/\">Roman army<\/a> as a soldier of auxiliary units. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Trying to evade service, he defected, for which he faced the only possible punishment &#8211; demotion to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/spoleczenstwo\/warstwy-spoleczne-starozytnego-rzymu\/niewolnictwo-w-starozytnym-rzymie\/\">slave status<\/a>. But he probably wasn&#8217;t sold into slavery right away; instead he turned to robbery. Eventually, he was captured and sent to the Capua Gladiator School.<\/p>\n<p>There he distinguished himself as an excellent fighter. For some time he even held the position of a fencing teacher (<em>doctore<\/em>). Hatred of the Romans and universal injustice pushed him to organize and lead a slave rebellion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40094,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[147],"class_list":["post-91495","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/91495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/91495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=91495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}