Spartacus
Billy Meier
11th October 1989
The slave gladiator Spartacus, who originated from the Indo-European folk of the Thracians and was enslaved by the Romans when he fell into captivity.
He belonged to an aristocratic family who were descendants of the tribe of Spartans and he therefore had great fighting experience and warfare qualities even before his enslaved gladiatorial life, so it was understandable that he could take over the leadership role during the escape and keep it after the escape.
Years prior to his enslavement and forced recruitment as a gladiator by the Romans, he fought in the war against their legions.
The Thracians and various other folks stood up against the Romans when they were incited by the Pontic king Mithridates VI, and it was precisely during this war that Spartacus was captured and brought to Rome as a slave.
And since he was as good as a perfectionist in the handling of weapons and in combat, had enormous physical strength and a high intelligence as well as a brilliant intellect and a good education, his destiny was sealed.
Such persons were unceremoniously taken by the Romans to the gladiator elite school of Capua, where they, being experienced in weapons and combat, besides fighting, also had the task of acting as gladiator trainers, which from then on was also Spartacus' fate.
Three years after his escape from the gladiator prison in Capua, he ordered the last and desperate attack on the chasers (Romans), whereby the two armies then collided for many hours and, in addition to a real bloodbath, also left behind a field of deaths on which lay many thousands of Roman legionaries and umpteen thousands of rebels, all of whom had to fight tired and power-wise exhausted.
The Spartacus fighters had no realistic chance, and Spartacus himself too suffered a severe stab wound that forced him to the ground.
Nevertheless, he continued to fight against the legionnaires attacking him until he received a blow to the head with a sword, which, however, did not split his skull, but only tore a flesh wound open, causing him to fall to the ground, covered in blood and unconscious, and was left lying there, believed to be dead.
Then, when everything was over and the night had arrived, Spartacus regained consciousness and left the battlefield half walking half crawling and thus fled from the Romans, whereby he was lucky that a helpful peasant found him, who took him in and cared for him for about two months, until he was well again.
Afterwards Spartacus set off unrecognized to return to his homeland, which he eventually reached after several months and lived there as a free man until the end of his life as well unrecognized and died at the age of 61 years.
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