Servile Wars
Series of slave revolts in the late Roman Republic
title: "Servile Wars" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["130s-bc-conflicts", "100s-bc-conflicts", "70s-bc-conflicts", "2nd-century-bc-in-the-roman-republic", "1st-century-bc-in-the-roman-republic", "servile-wars", "roman-republican-civil-wars", "wars-involving-the-roman-republic"] description: "Series of slave revolts in the late Roman Republic" topic_path: "history/military" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servile_Wars" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Series of slave revolts in the late Roman Republic ::
The Servile Wars were a series of three slave revolts ("servile" is derived from servus, Latin for "slave") in the late Roman Republic:
- First Servile War (135−132 BC) — in Sicily, led by Eunus, a former slave claiming to be a prophet, and Cleon from Cilicia.
- Second Servile War (104−100 BC) — in Sicily, led by Athenion and Tryphon.
- Third Servile War (73−71 BC) — on mainland Italy, led by Spartacus.
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