Six thousand crosses on the Appian Way
71 BCE · Event
Brought to a final battle, Spartacus dies trying to cut his way to Crassus himself; his body is never identified. Six thousand captured survivors are crucified at intervals along the 120 miles of the Appian Way from Capua to Rome, and left — a warning posted the whole length of the road the revolt began on. Rome never faces a great slave rising again.
On these timelines: The Spartacus Revolt, Roman History, Slavery & Abolition, Master, Italy (post-476 CE)
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