The Servile Wars

The Servile Wars is an accessible non-fiction account of the Three Slave Revolts Against the Roman Republic. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.

The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by Third Servile War. Key figures linked to the book include Spartacus.