Spartacus (disambiguation)

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Spartacus, and its derivations and translations such as "Spartacist", "Spartak" or "Espartaco" may refer to:

• Spartacus, the Thracian who led a slave uprising against Roman slavery.
• Spartacus, the name of several kings of the Cimmerian Bosporus.

also, derived from the above:

• Spartacus (film), a film directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Spartacus (2004 film), a made-for-tv film
• Spartacus (Fast novel), a historical novel by Howard Fast, the basis for Kubrick's film.
• Spartacus (ballet) or Spartak, ballet music by Aram Khachaturian
• Spartacus (novel), an historical novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• Spartacus Rugby Club, a rugby club in Gothenburg, Sweden

• There are at least three albums called Spartacus
  • Spartacus by Triumvirat
  • Spartacus by The Farm
  • Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus

also:

• Spartacus International Gay Guide, an annual publication
• The terms "Spartacus" and "Spartacist" were and are used by radical left groups in various countries, as in:
  • The Spartacist League was the 1918 German revolutionary movement, headed by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, from which the Communist Party of Germany emerged
  • Spartacus Letters was an illegal publication of the Spartacist League
  • Spartacus was an underground newspaper published by the left-wing Dutch anti-Nazi resistance group (Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg Front)
  • Spartacus is the magazine of the OKDE-Spartacus, the Greek section of the reunified Fourth International
• Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, a French animated series, originally entitled Les Mondes Engloutis. One of the main characters in this series is Spartakus.
• Brother Spartacus was the code name of Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.
• The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, an unusual model of Macintosh computer sometimes referred to by its development codename "Spartacus".
• Espartaco is the professional name of a Spanish bullfighter from Espartinas.
• Spartacus Educational an educational website featuring online biographies, primarily from the history of the USA and Britain
• Spartak (sports society) (Russian: Спартак) was the first and the largest All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of the USSR
• Spartak is still the name of numerous sports clubs and football and ice hockey teams in the former Soviet Union and other East European countries (see list of the most well-known under Spartak)