Talk:Spartacus

Spartacus was greek. Thracian is not a nationality

Spartacus was thracian? Thracian is not a nationality. Spartacus was greek. Maedi people (or Sandanski city now, or Strymon River) was a zone into the macedonian kingdom, 100km to Pella (Alexander the Great). His name needs traduction from greek. To affirm that Spartacus was thracian is like to say "Herodotus was persian. Or turkish". Archimedes was an italian. Eratoshenes of Libia." All greeks, of course. I propose to correct this point. Greetings.

--DIEGO73 (talk) 08:10, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Without getting too deeply into this... if the mainstream primary and secondary (and even tertiary) sources call him a Thracian (which they seem to do), that's what the article should say, per reliable sources. Haploidavey (talk) 08:19, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

The region belonged for almost 200 years to the Greece from the 350 a.C until the year 169 a.C (Roman occupation). You have to place yourself in the historical context. Its rulers were Greek Macedonians, Philip II, Alexander the Great, Antipater, Lysimachus (and their Macedonian successors). I refer to Macedonia as kingdom of Greece. "Spartacus" (Greek: Σπάρτακος Spártakos, translation from Greek I insist that Espartaco was Thracian is like saying "Thales of Miletus was Turkish." I leave 2 maps of the area, and I intend to correct this point.--DIEGO73 (talk) 18:37, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

--DIEGO73 (talk) 18:37, 3 February 2017 (UTC)-

Responded at editor's talk-page, as no sources have been offered here to support proposed changes. Haploidavey (talk) 19:49, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

DIEGO73, please, do not make the same attempt again without providing reliable sources to support such changes. Please, offer here academic sources backing your personal opinion before editing. Thank you. Jingiby (talk) 15:36, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

PS. What Plutarch said on Spartacus is: He was a Thracian from the nomadic tribes and not only had a great spirit and great physical strength, but was, much more than one would expect from his condition, most intelligent and cultured, being more like a Greek than like a Thracian. Note: This last remark is a well-known cliché from ancient literature. Any non-Greek/Roman who had done something special, was said to be more intelligent than other barbarians. However Plutarch never described Spartacus as a Greek. Check here, please. Jingiby (talk) 16:02, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Requested addition to in popular culture section - Music

I request the album Spartacus be added to this section. Spartacus is the third album by the German group Triumvirat. It is a concept album based on Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator who led the 3rd slave uprising in 73–71 BC. The lyrics were written by Hans Bathelt, with contributions by Jürgen Fritz. It was originally released in 1975 on the EMI label, and later distributed in the U.S. by Capitol.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/triumvirat-mn0000030088 http://www.allmusic.com/album/spartacus-mw0000325596 https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/124405-Triumvirat http://www.triumvirat.net/spartacus_lyrics.htm

Indies orbit (talk) 13:15, 5 March 2017 (UTC) indies_orbit

What does it add that isn't already covered by the other entries? The popular culture section is just to show that Spartacus' fame and influence has endured, so it uses a handful of examples from various different areas (cultural and geographical), it doesn't need to cite every time his name is used or mentioned.

DoubleDoubleDouble (talk) 07:15, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Requested addition to Popular culture- Television

Throughout the 5th and final series of BBC's Outnumbered, the character Ben is preparing to perform a theatrical performance pf Spartacus with his school, with Ben in the titular role of Spartacus. The final episode of the series and of the show, episode 6 of the series, sees Ben perform Spartacus in the final few minutes of the episode. In general, would add a small section containing links to the related material with a brief overview of how the subjects are related. Thank You! Trevor Richard (talk) 17:11, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

The story of Spartacus death?

I have heard 3 versions of how Spartacus' died and I am requesting we add a section for his death with all the different stories. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aman0226 (talk • contribs) 16:54, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Invalid source

The article mentions that no ancient writer specified that Spartacus’ goal was to abolish the institution of slavery itself, but it cites as a source a YouTube video (reference [1]) that does not mention anything of the kind. Clearly this cannot serve as reference and should be corrected. IntelligentET (talk) 21:45, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

While most videos on Youtube are garbage, that video is published by Simon & Schuster and features an interview with Barry S. Strauss. It would qualify as a reliable source if it supported the information in there. The edit in question was carried out by Krakkos. @Krakkos: did you mean to cite a specific page in the book instead? Ian.thomson (talk) 22:01, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Yup. I've now added the specific page as the source. Krakkos (talk) 23:14, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 March 2019

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