QuoteReplyTopic: them Rebellious slaves- Classical Greece Posted: 19-Sep-2009 at 13:24
Spartacus was not the only slave who started a slave rebellion. “The Swords against the Senate" talks about other rebellions but I found an interesting story in Light of Greece by Will Durant about a man named Drimachus who led his fellow slaves into rebellion. Apparently, the island of Chios, in the Classical period, was a clearing house for the evil of slavery. The island had about 30,000 freemen and 100,000 slaves but after they rebelled Drimachus and his men defeated all the armies sent against him and then established his band of merry men in the mountains vastness. (LOL) He levied on the richer citizen via indiscriminating robbery, sort of a Robin Hood- LOL He also offered them protection probably for a hefty sum and forced them to treat their slaves more kindly through terror. After he died he had instructed him men to turn in his severed head so they could collect the reward. For centuries afterwards he was worshipped as the patron Deity of slaves.
Is anyone familiar with this story or another from the Roman/Greco world?
Keep it from the classical period to no later than about 250 AD
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