The Gladiators

By Michael Fridgen

Book Overview

Entre los años 73 y 71 a.C., los gladiadores obligados a luchar y morir para diversión de los ciudadanos de Roma protagonizaron uno de los episodios más emocionantes, violentos y sorprendentes de la historia de Occidente: la Guerra de los esclavos o Guerra de los Gladiadores. 1ª edición. Coincidiendo con el centenario de Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), Edhasa publica en edición de bolsillo la novela que, basándose en una investigación personal, dedicó a este capítulo de la historia de Roma, que fue conocida también como Espartaco. La rebelión de los gladiadores, y que dió lugar a la película protagonizada por Kirk Douglas. Between the years 73 and 71 b. C., the gladiators, forced to fight and die for the entertainment of roman citizens, lead of one of the most exciting, violent and surprising events in western history: the slave war, or war of the gladiators. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B09645S8WH
• Release Date: January 1947
• Publisher: The Macmillan Company
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A masterful rendition of an heroic and grimy story

Spartacus is all of us when threathened in our human dignity, in our right to live, when we think we must fight oppression,the menace of terror and the tyranny of corrupt men of power. The Spartacus in this book is not as scintillating as Kubrick's Spartacus. He's more grim, much more conscious of the problem of restraining, in the rebellion to the tyranny of terror, the temptation of wreaking even more terror, and to give...

'Eat, Or Be Eaten'!...

This is a deeply disturbing novel about the failure of mass revolutionary movements. It contrasts the conscious self-interests of privileged elites with the self-interests of the masses and observes that there is only one fundamental 'law' that operates beneath the facades of 'order' and 'patriotism', namely the fatalistic assertion of the sad leader of the fierce and melancholic Celts, the gladiator Crixus, that the law is...