The Sword of Spartacus

"The Sword of Spartacus" is a short story by Richard L. Tierney, the first of his Simon of Gitta tales by internal chronology. The third story in the series to be published, it first appeared in Swords Against Darkness III in 1978. 
The story is set in early summer, AD 27, in the Italian town of Fidenae. Its plot involves the recruitment of Simon of Gitta, an enslaved gladiator, into a scheme to obtain vengeance for the rebel Spartacus by summoning the entity Tuchulcha.
== Characters ==
* Simon of Gitta: A Samaritan enslaved by Romans and forced to fight as a gladiator.
* Dositheus: A Samaritan wizard
* Menander: Dositheus' apprentice
* Carbo: A crow, Dositheus' familiar
* Tages: An Etruscan sorcerer
* Marius Pugio: A Roman gladiator and trainer
* Atilius
Category:Richard L. Tierney works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works