Spartacus

[olvios]

Spartakus was a thracian of the Maedi but look exactly what plutarch writes about him

[akritas]

Spartacus was a Grekoman thracian

The first of these was Spartacus, a Thracian of Nomadic stock, possessed not only of great courage and strength, but also in sagacity and culture superior to his fortune, and more Hellenic than Thracian.

It is said that when he was first brought to Rome to be sold, a serpent was seen coiled about his face as he slept, and his wife, who was of the same tribe as Spartacus, a prophetess, and subject to visitations of the Dionysiac frenzy, declared it the sign of a great and formidable power which would attend him to a fortunate issue. This woman shared in his escape and was then living with him.

Plutarch • Life of Crassus

Appian at Civil wars (1-116) quoted as about Spartacus

At the same time Spartacus, a Thracian by birth, who had once served as a soldier with the Romans, but had since been a prisoner and sold for a gladiator, and was in the gladiatorial training-school at Capua, persuaded about seventy of his comrades to strike for their own freedom rather than for the amusement of spectators.

Appian • The Civil Wars — BookÂ*I

and finally Florus in Epitome of Roman History (2-8) mention

Nor did he, who of a mercenary Thracian had become a Roman soldier, of a soldier a deserter and robber, and afterwards, from consideration of his strength, a gladiator, refuse to receive them. He afterwards, indeed, celebrated the funerals of his own officers, who died in battle, with the obsequies of Roman generals, and obliged the prisoners to fight with arms at their funeral piles, just as if he could atone for all past dishonours by becoming, from a gladiator, an exhibitor of shows of gladiators.

Epitome of Roman History/Book 2 - Wikisource

[Ehetlaios]

Kai to onoma tou ellhniko den einai...?

[Tsontos]

8a allaksw to titlo tou thread gia na fanei stis agglikes anazitiseis

[olvios]

The Maedi (also Maidans, Maedans, or Medi) were a Thracian tribe who, in historic times, occupied the area between Paionia and Thrace.

Maidi

Thucydides 2.100 - they live near the Paeonians, and join Sitalces' army.

Livy XXVI, 25 (210 BC)

Phillip (V) "marched into Macedonia..., and thence into Thrace against the Maedi. This latter people had made a habit of raiding Macedonia whenever they knew that the king was occupied with a foreign war and the kingdom, in consequence, inadequately defended. So in order to break them he set about the devastation of their land and, simultaneously, the siege of their capital town, Iamphorynna.

When Scopas [the Aetolian chief magistrate] learned that Philip had gone to Thrace and was engaged in operations there, he armed all the Aetolians of military age in preparation for the invasion of Acarnarnia....A message was sent [by the Acarnarnians] to Philip informing him of the dangerous turn events had taken, and he was compelled to give up the war in which he had engaged, though Iamphorynna had already surrendered and other successes had been won.

Livy XXVII, 5 (207 BC - Philip V)

The report of his coming brought to Demetrias delegations from Philip's allies all over the country, with requests for aid against the dangers which were threatening their respective communities either by land or sea... Even from Macedon reports were hardly of a peaceful nature: Scerdilaedus and Pleuratus were up in arms; Thrace was restless, and the Maedi in particular were likely to invade Macedonia if Philip were kept employed by a distant campaign.

[olvios]

[olvios]

He was born in the Area below located in Modern Greece