Tristan Hughes

Do we know much else about the command structure?

Bigger than Glaber's.

So they're starting to realize that, hang on, this guy we're fighting against, he actually does know how to effectively combat the Romans at war.

He's playing to his strengths, like ambushes and the like.

And at the same time, keeping the logistics networks up that they must have sorted with the, you know, whether it's still raiding the nearby towns or taking advantage of the rich lands of formerly Magna Graecia, you know, the Greek cities and all of that stuff to their benefit.

Right, so how do we go from those successful ambushes and chasing away that guy naked from the swimming pool to this, you know, this pitched battle against two consuls?

Yes, because they've gone from Campania to the south, then, you know, mutinous.

All the way north.

Defeating everyone as they come.

Do they just keep going north towards the Alps?

Funny, isn't it?

So who is Marcus Licinius Crassus?

Crassus.

It wasn't just that, how much are you going to pay me?

So he's now got a sizable army at his back.

They're deciding we've got to deal with Spartacus now.

And Spartacus, in the meantime, has he just been, I'm sure he's hearing the reports of what's happening, but he's been marching south still?

Yes, it doesn't seem to be a very regular punishment.

The only other example that comes immediately to my mind is with another rebel a few decades later, Tacferinus in North Africa, where I think there's a similar case of a Roman army going out, being beaten by Tacferinus, being overconfident, and then the commander-in-chief orders another decimation.

So yes,