Rome\s Sicilian Slave Wars
Rome\s Sicilian Slave Wars Natale Barca's study sets the revolts of Ennius and Salvius in their social context, describing the nature of slavery in the Late Republic and while explaining the causes…
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Rome\s Sicilian Slave Wars
Natale Barca's study sets the revolts of Ennius and Salvius in their social context, describing the nature of slavery in the Late Republic and while explaining the causes behind the revolt.In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed. Antiochus' ambition was to drive the Romans from the whole of Sicily. Their leader, a fortune-teller named Eunus, was declared king (taking the Syrian royal name Antiochus), and tens of thousands of runaway slaves as well as poor native Sicilians soon flocked to join his fledgling kingdom.
Antiochus' 'Kingdom of the Western Syrians' was extinguished by 132 but his agenda was revived The Romans responded with characteristic intransigence and relentlessness, leading to years of brutal warfare and suppression.