Los gladiadores | Arthur Koestler | book used | perfect

Arthur Koestler

Edhasa : pocket | 2005

502 | 12h 3m

spanish | softcover | used | perfect

18cm x 11cm | 318gr

In the year 73 BC, seventy gladiators led by the Gaul Cirxus and the Thracian Spartacus fled from the school of Lentulus Batuatus to escape the tragic fate of a death degraded to the status of a spectacle. Thus begins one of the most fascinating adventures in history, an episode that Koestler recreates as a paradigmatic example of how liberation movements can lead to tyranny. At the threshold of the centenary of the birth of the controversial writer Arthur Koestler, it seems the ideal time to recover this work in an edition accessible to all audiences, and which can also be read in contrast to the one given by Howard Fast, on the same topic, in "Spartacus". Previously published in the collection of Historical Narratives with the title "Spartacus. The rebellion of the gladiators", an attempt has been made to maintain a similar design so as not to be misleading, but to recover a more faithful translation of the original title to clearly distinguish it from the work of Howard Fast and avoid confusion for readers.