ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A SPECTACULAR JOURNEY THROUGH ANCIENT ITALY
Book ID/图书代码： 04300009B33208
English Summary/英文概要： In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves brought a peculiar terror to the people of Italy. Its leaders were gladiators. Its purpose was incomprehensible. Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the Roman legions between 73 and 71BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind. It is a road that stretches through 2,000 miles of Italian countryside and out into 2,000 years of world history. In this inspiring and original memoir, the former editor of The Times, Peter Stothard, takes us on an extraordinary journey.
The result is a book like none other – at once a journalist’s notebook, a classicist’s celebration, a survivor’s record of a near fatal cancer and the history of a unique and brutal war. As he travels along the Spartacus road – through the ruins of Capua to Vesuvius and the lost Greek cities of the Italian south – Stothard’s prose illuminates conflicting memories of times ancient and modern, the simultaneously foreign and familiar, one of the greatest stories of all ages. Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal, “On the Spartacus Road” is non-fiction writing of the highest order.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一場兼具歷史深度及旅遊文學的跨時代之旅！
「斯巴達克斯起義」是古羅馬共和末期（西元前73-71年）由斯巴達克斯領導的大規模奴隸反抗事件。起義的領導者是斯巴達克斯，在一次和羅馬軍隊的戰鬥中被俘虜，被賣為奴隸送往卡普亞城的一個角鬥士（gladiator）訓練所。在這裡他暗中串聯了200多名角鬥士，希望通過戰鬥來換取自由。後來計劃洩露，只有78名角鬥士逃往維蘇威火山（Vesuvio）。他率領這些角鬥士在山上建立營寨，並且四處襲擊奴隸主莊園，各地奴隸和貧民紛紛投奔這裡，隊伍迅速擴大到1萬多人。之後雖然斯巴達克斯所率領的起義軍曾多次擊退羅馬的軍隊，甚至撼動羅馬政權，使羅馬居民人心惶惶。最後卻依然敗北遭到殲滅，但沉重地打擊了羅馬的貴族統治。本書便是藉由重回斯巴達克斯當時起義的路程，從Capua途中翻山岳嶺到Vesuvio火山，到最後由希臘南征的西西里島重新回溯當時起義的歷史原貌，為讀者帶一場兼具歷史深度及旅遊文學的跨時代之旅。(VL)
Awards/获奖情况：更多评论请参见WORD档 “Haunting, erudite and beautifully written...Unlike any other book ever written about Spartacus” --- Tom Holland, Spectator
“Beautifully written, musing and far-sighted...An astounding success” --- Christopher Hart, Literary Review
Publishers of ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: UK(HarperCollins), US (The Overlook Press).
About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Stothard爵士，曾在1992至2002年間擔任英國《泰唔士報的編輯，目前則轉任《泰晤士報文學增刊》的編輯。擁有豐富的學術涵養及專業報章媒體經驗的他，在2003年時被英國女王冊封為爵士。發表許多政治及文學相關的文章，著有：《首相布萊爾的30天》(Tony Blair and the Test of thirty days History)等書。
Peter Stothard was editor of The Times from 1992 to 2002, the period of its greatest commercial success for a century, and is currently editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He was knighted for his services to newspapers in 2003. He has written extensively on politics and literature.
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