Gaius Claudius Glaber

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Gaius Claudius Glaber was a Roman praetor in 73 BC. He tried but failed to hem in Spartacus and his fellow slaves on Mt. Vesuvius during the Third Servile War.[1]

John Dall's character Glabrus in the film Spartacus (1960) was loosely based on Glaber.

[edit] Selected ancient Sources

  • Sallust, Histories 3.90-93 Maurenbrecher.
  • Livy, Periochae 95.
  • Plutarch, Crassus 8-9.
  • Frontinus, Strategemata 1.5.21.
  • Appian, Civil Wars 1.116[2].
  • Florus, Epitome 2.8.4
  • Some of these sources are available in English translation from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm).

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Broughton 109
  2. ^ Appian conflates the names of Varinius and Claudius Glaber, writing Varinios Glabros, not Varinius Faber, as in the Ancient Sourcebook translation, cf. Broughton 2.115 n. 1

[edit] Bibliography

  • Broughton, T. Robert S. Magistrates of the Roman Republic, vol. 2. Cleveland: Case Western University Press, 1968, p. 109 &115 n. 1.
  • Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 93-94. ISBN 0253312590
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