The gods love to joke. They gave Spartacus the mind and soul of a great commander and made him a gladiator slave. The proud Thracian wished for freedom, and the slaves of Rome followed him. Without weapons and without armor, the despised slaves defeated the Romans at the foot of Vesuvius. It was not wealth or power - only freedom that the soul of Spartacus thirsted for. He challenged the great empire, and for three years his army of slaves crushed the elite legions of the Romans. Oh, how the Romans wanted the name of Spartacus to be forgotten forever! But the gods know how to joke, and the memory of the Thracian Spartacus survived the Roman Empire.