Ben Kane

And actually, I forgot to say, Spartax had thought about going that way, but heard that Lentulus had landed in Brindisium, so couldn't.

And then you had Pompey had been recalled as well, and he came marching down the main road from Rome and slaughtered 5,000 fugitives from Spartacus' army.

Yeah.

And it gets political then because Crassus had obviously won the bigger battle and Pompey had just looked upon a small section of the army who was running away anyway, but he was closer to Rome.

So he sent a message to, to the Senate saying that, um, he had torn out the roots of the rebellion and he got more credit than Crassus, who was really angry.

Yeah.

And then he was later not given a triumph, whereas Pompey was, because of his victory over Sertorius, which he shouldn't have been, because Sertorius was a citizen.

But he was given a triumph, because you can bend the rules.

And puro crassus was only given an ovatio, which was one step below a triumph.

And you were only allowed to wear a myrtle wreath, not a laurel wreath.

but he petitioned the Senate because a myrtle wreath wasn't good enough.

So they allowed him to have a laurel wreath crown, even though it was only an ovatio.

I'm sure he could have paid for it if he wanted to.

Well, he probably did.

Not all of them were crucified, but 6,000 of them were.

And this is the largest mass crucifixion of ancient history.

It was equaled once by Octavian Augustus after the Battle of Actium.

but never even came close with any other crucifixions.

So the prisoners were marched to Capua, which is about 70 miles from the battlefield, and the main Roman road, which was Via Appia, which had run from the south but continued through Capua to Rome.

It's about 130-odd miles between the two cities, and I worked out the maths.