Film Review: Spartacus

Film Review: Spartacus <b>What is clearly justified by the historical sources</b> In Stanley Kubrick’s film of Spartacus, many events that are documented in the historical sources are accurately portrayed. In the film, we see Spartacus and other slaves seize kitchen implements from the cookhouse in which they are eating and attack the guards. This is clearly justified by Plutarch in Fall of the Roman Empire; "seventy-eight, who realised this, managed to act …

…around 73BC. Instead, it has taken certain events and dramatised them in order to keep entertainment value high and keep the viewers interested. However, in doing this, the film has become less historically accurate to the extent that it could even be called a fiction film. <b>Bibliography</b> <li>KR Bradley, Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 1989 <li>Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1972