Talk:Spartacus (Gibbon novel)

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I'm not sure that this novel is better than Fast's novel of the same name, more likely the other way round. I propose that Spartacus (novel) should be a disambiguation page, I will move in a few days if nobody objects. PatGallacher 13:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't done, or was lost? Anyway, I've changed this one to Spartacus (Gibbon novel) and made sure that both novels are on the main Spartacus disambiguation page, and made Spartacus (novel) go there as well. Lessthanideal (talk) 00:15, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Teaser[edit]

"Its opening sentence is arguably the most dramatic in the whole of English literature." - And then there is nothing! I think we should be able to have at least part of this sentence with-out violating copyright of this 1930s book. Some-body who has the book, please help. I'm really curious.Kdammers (talk) 10:35, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I found the book online, and there are three sentences that one could consider the opening one - I can't tell which one is being referred to. This certainly seems POV "to me."Kdammers (talk) 10:56, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is "English literature"? Gibbon was a Scottish nationalist. English language literature and literature from England seem permanently conflated! Maybe that's the intention. -MacRusgail (talk) 16:04, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anachronism[edit]

I don't know if it's worth including or not, but there is an anachronism in the novel: On page 97 (according to the introduction, viewable in Google Books), the text says that Crixus stood up in his stirrups. Yet this was a long time before a stirrup was to be seen in the West. Kdammers (talk) 10:56, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Gladiators (novel) by Koestler, also about Spartacus, has its own anachronism... fire escapes!--MacRusgail (talk) 16:04, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]