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Among the ancient Greeks, Alexander was reviled for his enjoyment of combat and for giving over to passion and emotions amid the throes of battle as opposed to staying detached, calm, and collected like Athena.However, among those who do respect and worship him, it is his protective nature and defense of the weak that made them devotees.Because Rome was politically and economically reliant upon constant conquering, Mars held high prominence among the rulers, the people, and especially the military.He was an existing deity since the dawn of the Kingdom of Rome, but it wasn’t until the waning years of Imperial Rome that he became really influential after Emperor Aurelian promoted him to the ranks of a major deity.This, however, was a strategic political move more so than divine inspiration or personal devotion.Moreover, by tactically aligning himself heavily with Sol Invictus in speech and art, Aurelian hoped that this overt push for unified devotion to one supreme deity would also covertly get everyone to support him as their one supreme ruler.His story has since been made into the landmark Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas film Spartacus, and though the documented accounts of his leadership of the slave resistance are contradictory, almost all reliable sources agree that he was a great martial leader.The more reliable accounts say that Spartacus was originally a mercenary from Greece who was hired by the Roman military, but after his desertion, he was captured and sold into slavery as a gladiator in southern Italy.There, he led a prison break and managed to escape with about seventy other enslaved gladiators and much of the compound’s armor and weapons.Word got around about his victories over mighty Rome and inspired other enslaved people to also revolt and join up with him, swelling Spartacus’s ranks to about seventy thousand.

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