What was his endgame? It wasn't to liberate Rome's

>>2591420
One could speculate that after he reached the alps and his troops requested to turn back that his ego took over and he imagined himself a general sacking the confederation. Sort of like how the Teutones did a few hundred years before

>>2591420
Defeat Crassus so his army can also cross the Alps into Transalpine Gaul/Germania with the civilian slaves. However he wasn't confident he'd beat Crassus so mainly it was a holding action.

That's the show at least. The historical Spartacus was sending correspondence to Sertonius and Mithradates, so it's possible they were hoping for a three pronged attack against Rome, but it didn't work out.

>>2591420
He was barbarian scum, meaning that his only goal or purpose in life was to shed bled. However he did not know his place in the arena among many other 'people' and decided to shed the blood of innocent civilians. Fortunately Marcus Licinius Crassus out an end to his dastardly tirade.

>>2591420
Did this really happen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ddFbBmFzk

>>2591420
>For some reason he wasn't trying to escape.
Pretty much every ancient source is sympathetic to Spartacus in that they agree that he personally wanted to fuck off back to Thrace.
It was the rest of the slaves that wanted to tear up shit, kill Romans and steal everything that wasn't nailed down. Releasing he was either with them or against them in their eyes, Spartacus had no choice but to lead the revolt till its inevitable defeat.


Did anyone else here have an irrational love for Crassus as a kid?

>>2592576
>Did anyone else here have an irrational love for Crassus as a kid?

No, and you were a weird fucking child.

>>2591420
He got in too deep and couldn't turn back. Even if he and his troops would have made it to safety, he would have died within a year. The reason for that is that his whole army consisted of former warriors from different cultures and places. That doesn't mix well. So if he would have sided with one party the other one would have killed him. After a while Rome would just conquer them again,

>>2592885
The only time he tries to do something noble and "Roman" he loses everything for it.
He was as truly tragic figure, you'd be weird not to like him.

>>2592982
>The only time he tries to do something noble and "Roman" he loses everything for it.
>He was as truly tragic figure, you'd be weird not to like him.
Brah, he was a fucking real estate tycoon who beat up slaves. As soon as he fought an actual enemy he got destroyed by them when he outnumbered them four to one.

He's like Donald Trump of the common era.

>>2591436
Wow that's interesting, they could've put that part in the show

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>>2592576
My earliest association with Crassus is his name being connected to Carrhae and the asswrecking the Parthians gave him.

>>2593040
What's that fish-banner-thingy? Looks cool.

>>2593002
>He's like Donald Trump of the common era.
Slander and lies.

>>2593040
Same, but he the way he went down was kind of what drew him to me. Imagining the richest and most powerful man in Rome wandering through the desert mourning his son's death and awaiting a fatal arrow in the back.

>>2593063
Its a windsock banner for cavalrymen depicting a Dragon. Romans copied it lel.

Like in China, Indo-Iranian dragons are snaky.

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>>2593063
It's a Draco, eventually the Romans started using them too

>>2591420
Most likely realised at the foot of the Alps that the best years of his life was being revered by the freed slaves as a Messianic saviour, which was preferable to forever being on the run, and so turned back with delusions of grandeur to free even more slaves or even take down Rome itself.

>>2592576

That's my guess too: he wanted to eventually get back to Thrace (roughly equivalent with modern Bulgaria).

>>2592885
>>2593002
>Hating someone because they were rich and "muh freedumb"
I beat you have a copy of the communist manifesto with a picture of Bernie Sanders on it you Reddit cuck

>>2595017

Fuck off back to /pol/

>>2595387
Fuck off to tumblr

he was trying to escape he got blocked off at the top of italy. Then he arranged for some pirates to pick him up at the bottom of italy but they never came

>>2595017
Fuck off, you're making my man Crassus look bad.