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The ___MASK47___ Republic was the era of ancient ___MASK47___ civilization beginning with the overthrow of the ___MASK47___ Kingdom , traditionally dated to 509 BC , and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the ___MASK47___ Empire . It was during this period that Rome ' s control expanded from the city ' s immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world . Oenomaus was a Gallic gladiator , who escaped from the gladiatorial school of Lentulus Batiatus in ___MASK46___ . Together with the Thracian Spartacus and the fellow Gauls Crixus , Castus and Gannicus , he became one of the leaders of rebellious slaves during the Third Servile War ( 73 -- 71 BC ) Oenomaus was involved in one of the first major successes of the slave army , the rout of the army of the praetor Gaius Claudius Glaber , who had tried to lay siege to the slave army near Mount Vesuvius . Oenomaus fell in an early battle , possibly during the winter of 73 -- 72 BC when the slave armies were plundering cities and towns in the south of Italy . The Third Servile War ( 73  71 BC ), also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch , was the last of a series of unrelated and unsuccessful slave rebellions against the ___MASK47___ Republic , known collectively as the ___MASK47___ Servile Wars . Plutarch (" Ploútarkhos ", ; later named , upon becoming a ___MASK47___ citizen , Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ; c . AD 46  AD 120 ) was a Greek biographer and essayist , known primarily for his " Parallel Lives " and " Moralia ". He is classified as a Middle Platonist . Plutarch ' s surviving works were written in Greek , but intended for both Greek and ___MASK47___ readers . Crixus was a Gallic gladiator and military leader in the Third Servile War . Born in ___MASK76___ , he was enslaved by the Romans under unknown circumstances and trained as a gladiator in ___MASK46___ . His name means " one with curly hair " in Gaulish . A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves . Slave rebellions have occurred in nearly all societies that practice , or have practiced in the past , slavery , and are amongst the ___MASK75___ feared events for slaveholders . ___MASK76___ ( Latin : " Gallia ") was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age that was inhabited by Celtic tribes , encompassing present day France , Luxembourg , Belgium , ___MASK75___ of Switzerland , Northern Italy , as well as the parts of the Netherlands , Central Italy and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine . It covered an area of 190 , 800 mi² or 494 , 169 km² . According to the testimony of Julius Caesar , ___MASK76___ was divided into three parts : Gallia Celtica , Belgica and Aquitania . Archaeologically , the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture , which extended across all of ___MASK76___ , as well as east to Raetia , Noricum , Pannonia and southwestern Germania during the 5th to 1st centuries BC . During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC , ___MASK76___ fell under Roman rule : Gallia Cisalpina was conquered in 203 BC and Gallia Narbonensis in 123 BC . ___MASK76___ was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons , who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC . Julius Caesar finally subdued the remaining parts of ___MASK76___ in his campaigns of 58 to 51 BC . Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Batiatus ( or , possibly , Vatia ) was the ___MASK47___ owner of a gladiatorial school in ___MASK4___ ___MASK46___ Vetere ( the ancient city , where " ___MASK46___ Vetere " means " Old ___MASK46___ "), in ___MASK44___ . It was from this school that in 73 BC , the Thracian slave , Spartacus , and about 70 to 78 followers escaped . The break - out led to the slave rebellion known as the Third Servile War ( 73  71 BC ). ___MASK46___ is a city and " comune " in the province of Caserta , Campania , ___MASK44___ , situated north of Naples , on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain . Ancient ___MASK46___ was situated where Santa Maria ___MASK46___ Vetere is now . ___MASK4___ ___MASK46___ Vetere is a town and " comune " in the province of Caserta , part of the region of Campania ( ___MASK44___ ). A gladiator (" swordsman ", from , " sword ") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the ___MASK47___ Republic and ___MASK47___ Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators , wild animals , and condemned criminals . Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their lives and their legal and social standing by appearing in the arena . ___MASK75___ were despised as slaves , schooled under harsh conditions , socially marginalized , and segregated even in death . Spartacus (""; c . 111  71 BC ) was a Thracian gladiator who , along with the Gauls Crixus , Gannicus , Castus , and Oenomaus , was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War , a major slave uprising against the ___MASK47___ Republic . Little is known about Spartacus beyond the events of the war , and surviving historical accounts are sometimes contradictory and may not always be reliable . However , all sources agree that he was a former gladiator and an accomplished military leader .