Spartacus and his avatars. From reality to myth. From Capua to Hollywood - Gérard Lucas

From Varro to Psellos, via Cicero, Plutarch, Florus, Themistius, Freculphus of Lisieux, here is an anthology of Greek and Latin texts with their translation where the name Spartacus appears, sometimes allusively. Then it disappears... to be resurrected in the 18th century and become the emblem of various struggles; it is also this trajectory that this volume attempts to trace in its broad outlines through a selection of modern texts. But the question remains: who was Spartacus?