Battle of Mount Vesuvius

The Battle of Vesuvius was the first conflict of the Third Servile War which pitted the escaped slaves against a military force of militia specifically dispatched by Rome to deal with the rebellion. ^[1]

Abseiling

Abseiling, also known as rappelling, is the controlled descent of a steep slope, such as a rock face, by moving down a rope.

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Auxilia

The auxilia were introduced as non-citizen troops attached to the citizen legions by Augustus after his reorganisation of the Imperial Roman army from 27 BC.

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Campania

Campania is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri.

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Capua

Capua is a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Crixus

Crixus (died 72 BC) was a Gallic gladiator and military leader in the Third Servile War between the Roman Republic and rebel slaves. Battle of Mount Vesuvius and Crixus are Third Servile War.

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Flanking maneuver

In military tactics, a flanking maneuver is a movement of an armed force around an enemy force's side, or flank, to achieve an advantageous position over it.

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Gaius Claudius Glaber

Gaius Claudius Glaber was a military commander of the late Roman Republic, holding the office of praetor in 73 BC. Battle of Mount Vesuvius and Gaius Claudius Glaber are Third Servile War.

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Galleria Borghese

The is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana.

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Gladiator

A gladiator (gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.

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Gladiator Mosaic

The Gladiator Mosaic is a famous set of 5 large mosaics of gladiators and venators and two smaller ones.

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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia

Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia (also called Lentulus Batiatus by Plutarch) was the Roman owner of a gladiatorial school in ancient Capua. Battle of Mount Vesuvius and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia are Third Servile War.

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Herder

A herder is a pastoral worker responsible for the care and management of a herd or flock of domestic animals, usually on open pasture.

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Looting

Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.

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Metapontum

Metapontum or Metapontium (Metapontion) was an important city of Magna Graecia, situated on the gulf of Tarentum, between the river Bradanus and the Casuentus (modern Basento).

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.

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Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius is a somma–stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore.

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Nocera Inferiore

Nocera Inferiore (Nucèrä Inferiórë or simply Nucèrë,, locally) is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in Campania in southern Italy.

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Nola

Nola is a town and a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, southern Italy.

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Oenomaus (rebel slave)

Oenomaus was a Gallic gladiator, who escaped from the gladiatorial school of Lentulus Batiatus in Capua. Battle of Mount Vesuvius and Oenomaus (rebel slave) are Third Servile War.

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Praetor

Praetor, also pretor, was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties.

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Publius Varinius

Publius Varinius (born circa 110 BC) was a Roman praetor in 73 BC, proconsul in 72 BC, and a military commander who was unsuccessful during the Third Servile War.

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Roman legion

The Roman legion (legiō), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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Shepherd

A shepherd or sheepherder is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep.

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Slavery in antiquity

Slavery in the ancient world, from the earliest known recorded evidence in Sumer to the pre-medieval Antiquity Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.

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Spartacus

Spartacus (Spártakos; Spartacus) was a Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Battle of Mount Vesuvius and Spartacus are Third Servile War.

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Third Servile War

The Third Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic known as the Servile Wars. Battle of Mount Vesuvius and Third Servile War are 1st century BC in the Roman Republic and 70s BC conflicts.

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Thracians

The Thracians (translit; Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history.

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Thraex

The Thraex (Thraeces), or Thracian, was a type of Roman gladiator armed in Thracian style.

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Thurii

Thurii (Latin: Thūriī, Thoúrioi), called also by some Latin writers Thūrium (compare Thoúrion, in Ptolemy), and later in Roman times also Cōpia and Cōpiae, was an ancient Greek city situated on the Gulf of Taranto, near or on the site of the great renowned city of Sybaris, whose place it may be considered as having taken.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Vesuvius

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1st-century BC battles

70s BC conflicts

71 BC

Battles of the Servile Wars

Military history of Campania

Mount Vesuvius

Third Servile War

References