- 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 theCimmerian 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 byradical 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 anunderground 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
* TheTwentieth 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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