- Gaius Claudius Glaber
Gaius Claudius Glaber was a Roman
praetor in 73 BC. He tried but failed to hem inSpartacus and his fellow slaves on Mt. Vesuvius during theThird Servile War . [Broughton 109]John Dall 's character Glabrus in the film "Spartacus" (1960) was loosely based on Glaber.elected ancient Sources
*Sallust, "Histories" 3.90-93 Maurenbrecher.
*Livy, "Periochae" 95.
*Plutarch, "Crassus" 8-9.
*Frontinus, "Strategemata" 1.5.21.
*Appian, "Civil Wars" 1.116 [Appian conflates the names of Varinius and Claudius Glaber, writing "Varinios Glabros", not Varinius Faber, as in the Ancient Sourcebook translation, cf. Broughton 2.115 n. 1] .
*Florus, "Epitome" 2.8.4
*Some of these sources are available in English translation from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm).Notes
Bibliography
*Broughton, T. Robert S. "Magistrates of the Roman Republic," vol. 2. Cleveland: Case Western University Press, 1968, p. 109 &115 n. 1.
*Bradley, Keith. "Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World." Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 93-94. ISBN 0253312590
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