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Gladius Sword of Spartacus
Spartacus the Gladiator
Price: $249 Additional $29 for the Handmade Wood Scabbard
Spartacus was a slave and a gladiator who became a leader in a slave uprising against the Roman Republic known as the Third Servile
War. Spartacus received training in a Roman army, before becoming a slave. Spartacus and two Gallic gladiators led a riot at a school.
Of about two hundred gladiator slaves, less than eighty escaped, using kitchen tools as weapons. In the streets they found wagons
of gladiatorial weapons and confiscated them.
Total Length = 25"
Blade Length = 16 ¼ " Blade Width = 2 3/16 "
Blade Thickness = 3/16 " Handle Length = 9 " Handle Width = 1 1/8 "
Blade Thickness = 3/16 " Handle Length = 9 " Handle Width = 1 1/8 "
Handle: Tiger Maple & Maple
Weight = 2 lbs
Wood Scabbard in Maple Available
Wood Scabbard in Maple Available
Inspired by the Gladiator Spartacus
When soldiers tried to stop the band of escaped slaves, the band used their gladiatorial weapons, easily defeating the soldiers. Then they took the better, military weapons of the beaten soldiers, and set out on their way, collecting over 70,000 slaves! He had shown remarkable skill in creating a force capable of defeating Roman legions.
