Spartacus, A Thracian Jésus

SPARTACUS,

A THRACIAN JESUS

EXTERMINATION OF REBELLIOUS SLAVES

ROMAN-STYLE SOCIAL GENOCIDE

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

STANLEY KUBRICK — SPARTACUS — 1960

This film is a classic and like all classics, it has aged, and yet it remains a classic. What makes it such is the fact that slavery is shown in all its horror. Slavery appeared in the Magdalenian when agriculture and herding changed the lifestyle of Homo Sapiens. No more hunting and gathering. No more the division of labor between men, the providers, and women the guarantee the species and their communities will go on expanding and multiplying with a surviving birth rate of 3 at the age of twelve. And that meant ten to twelve pregnancies for every woman and seven to nine deaths before adult age. Women had to work as one unified child producer and raiser.

When humanity started to develop agriculture a completely different work organization was needed and the land itself was supposed to be controlled with the parallel control of the work on this land, tilling and toiling for the community to satisfy their needs. That will not increase life expectancy that will remain at 29 up to the nineteenth century CE…