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 Bosporan Kingdom Cimmerian Bosporus

Media

Ballet

• Spartacus (ballet) or Spartak, ballet music by Aram Khachaturian

Film and television

• Spartacus (film), a 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Spartacus (TV miniseries), a 2004 made-for-TV miniseries broadcast over two nights.
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand, a Starz original television series that premiered on January 22, 2010. The series focuses on the historical figure of Spartacus
  • Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, a series that serves as a prequel to Blood and Sand
  • Spartacus: Vengeance, a series that serves as a sequel to Blood and Sand
• Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, a French animated series, originally entitled Les Mondes Engloutis
  • Spartakus, one of the main characters in this series

Literature

• Spartacus (Fast novel), a historical novel by Howard Fast, the basis for Kubrick's film
• Spartacus (Gibbon novel), a historical novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• Spartacus (1961 book), a political history by F.A. Ridley

Music

• Spartacus, music by Khachaturian
• Spartacus (Triumvirat album), by Triumvirat
• Spartacus (The Farm album), by The Farm
• Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus

Sports

• Spartacus Rugby Club, a rugby club in Gothenburg, Sweden
• Spartak (sports society) (Спартак), the first and the largest All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of the USSR
• The nickname of swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara
• Spartak, 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)
• Spartakiad, athletic competitions held in the Soviet Union

Groups and their publications

• Spartacus 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, a defunct underground newspaper published by the left-wing Dutch anti-Nazi resistance group, Marx–Lenin–Luxemburg Front
• Spartacus (Σπάρτακος), the magazine of the Greek section of the reunified Fourth International organization of Communist Internationalists

Other

• Spartacus International Gay Guide, an annual publication
• 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"
• Spartacus Trial, a series of criminal trials against Camorra
• Spartacus, a fictional supercomputer in the James P. Hogan novel The Two Faces of Tomorrow

See also

• All pages beginning with "Spartacus"
• All pages with titles containing "Spartacus"
• Sparta (disambiguation)