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	ln the last centurybefore the birth...
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	of the new faithcalled Christianity...
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	which was destined to overthrowthe pagan tyranny of Rome...
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	and bring about a new society...
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	the Roman republic stood at the verycentre of the civilized world.
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	''0f all things fairest, ''sang the poet...
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	''first among cities andhome of the gods is golden Rome. ''
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	Yet even at the zenithof her pride and power...
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	the Republic lay fatally strickenwith a disease called...
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	human slavery.
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	The age of the dictatorwas at hand...
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	waiting in the shadowsfor the event to bring it forth.
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	ln that same century...
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	in the conqueredGreek province of Thrace...
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	an illiterate slave womanadded to her master's wealth...
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	by giving birth to a sonwhom she named Spartacus.
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	A proud, rebellious son...
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	who was sold to living deathin the mines of Libya...
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	before his thirteenth birthday.
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	There, under whipand chain and sun...
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	he lived out his youthand his young manhood...
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	dreaming the death of slavery...
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	2,000 yearsbefore it finally would die.
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