Spartacus (disambiguation)

Spartacus (disambiguation)

Spartacus, and its derivations and translations such as "Spartacist", "Spartak" or "Espartaco" may refer to:
*Spartacus, the Thracian who led a slave uprising against Roman slavery
*Spartacus, the name of several kings of the Cimmerian Bosporus

also, derived from the above:
* "Spartacus" (1960 film), a film directed by Stanley Kubrick
* "Spartacus" (2004 film), a made-for-tv film
* "Spartacus (Fast novel)", a historical novel by Howard Fast, the basis for Kubrick's film
* "Spartacus (ballet)" or "Spartak", ballet music by Aram Khachaturian
* "Spartacus (novel)", an historical novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
* "Spartacus Rugby Club", a rugby club in Gothenburg, Sweden

* There are at least three albums called "Spartacus"
** "Spartacus (Triumvirat album)", by Triumvirat
** "Spartacus (The Farm album)", by The Farm
** "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus"

also:
* "Spartacus International Gay Guide", an annual publication
* The terms "Spartacus" and "Spartacist" were and are used by radical left groups in various countries, as in:
** Spartacist League, the 1918 German revolutionary movement, headed by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, from which the Communist Party of Germany emerged
** "Spartacus Letters", an illegal publication of the Spartacist League
** "Spartacus" was an underground newspaper published by the left-wing Dutch anti-Nazi resistance group (Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg Front)
** "Spartacus" (Σπάρτακος) has been, and currently is, the magazine of the Greek section of the Fourth International, currently named the OKDE-Spartacus
* "Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea", a French animated series, originally entitled "Les Mondes Engloutis". One of the main characters in this series is Spartakus
* Brother Spartacus, the code name of Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati
* The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, an unusual model of Macintosh computer sometimes referred to by its development codename "Spartacus"
* Espartaco is the professional name of a Spanish bullfighter from Espartinas
* Spartacus Educational, an educational website featuring online biographies, primarily from the history of the USA and Britain
* Spartak (sports society) (Спартак), the first and the largest All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of the USSR
* Spartak, still the name of numerous sports clubs and football and ice hockey teams in the former Soviet Union and other East European countries (see list of the most well-known under Spartak)


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