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The Second Servile War was an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic on the island of Sicily. The war lasted from 104 BC until 100 BC.
The Consul Gaius Marius was recruiting for his eventually successful war against the Cimbri in Cisalpine Gaul. He requested support from King Nicomedes III of Bithynia near Roman Asia Province. Additional troops from Rome's Italian Allies were not supplied due to the claim that contracted Roman tax collectors had enslaved Italians unable to pay their debts. Marius decreed that any allied/friendly Italian should be released if they were in Roman slavery.
Around 800 Italian slaves were released from Sicily, frustrating many non-Italians who thought they would be released as well, and many of these abandoned their masters incorrectly believing to have been freed. A rebellion broke out when they were ordered back to servitude by the Governor. A slave by the name of Salvius was following in the footsteps of Eunus, fighting for his rights and elected leader of this rebellion. He assumed the name Tryphon, from Diodotus Tryphon, a Seleucid ruler.
He amassed an army containing thousands of trained and equipped slaves, including 2,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry, and was joined by a Cicilian named Athenion and his men from the west of Sicily. The Roman consul Manius Aquillius quelled the revolt only after great effort. It was the second of a series of three slave revolts in the Roman Republic, but fuelled by the same slave abuse in Sicily and Southern Italy.
Second Servile War in Literature [edit]
- F. L. Lucas's short story "The Boar" (Athenaeum, 10 September 1920) is set in Sicily in the aftermath of the Slave War.
References [edit]
- Shaw, Brent (2001). Spartacus and the Slave Wars: a brief history with documents. pp. 107–129.(at google books)
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Ancient Roman wars
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| Wars of the Roman Republic |
- Roman-Etruscan Wars
- Roman-Latin wars
- Roman-Volscian wars
- Samnite Wars
- Pyrrhic War
- Punic Wars (First, Second, Third)
- Macedonian Wars (Illyrian, First Macedonian, Second Macedonian, Seleucid, Third Macedonian, Fourth Macedonian)
- Jugurthine War
- Cimbrian War
- Servile Wars (First, Second, Third)
- Social War
- Civil wars of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (First, Second)
- Mithridatic Wars (First, Second, Third)
- Gallic Wars
- Caesar's invasions of Britain
- Julius Caesar's civil war
- End of the Republic (Post-Caesarian, Liberators', Sicilian, Fulvia's, Final)
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