For months the Appian Way was a corridor of death after the slave rebellion led by Spartacus was crushed in 71 BC. The Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus captured 6000 surviving rebels and ordered them crucified along the main road from Rome to Capua to serve as a relentless warning against defiance. The bodies remained exposed for months to terrorize all travelers while Crassus secured glory in a bitter rivalry with the famed Pompey the Great. The remains of Spartacus himself were lost to hi