Spartacus was a real person who escaped from slavery and fought against the Romans. However, many stories that are told about the life of Spartacus are not historically accurate. The information in the reading relies on those inaccurate stories.
First, returning to their homes overseas was not the only goal of Spartacus and his men. You see, those first battles in which Spartacus’s army defeated the Roman army cleared a route by which Spartacus and his men could have escaped the Roman territory, but they didn’t take that opportunity. Instead, Spartacus’s men started marching towards the city of Rome.
They probably wanted to conquer the city and take as many valuables from the Romans as they could. So Spartacus was not fighting just to get home. He was interested in revenge and wealth. And those are less admirable goals.
Second, although Spartacus did win a few battles, he was not necessarily a military genius. What really happened was: The Romans didn’t take Spartacus and his army very seriously at first, so they initially sent only poorly trained and ill-equipped army units to put down the revolt. It was these weak units that Spartacus defeated. When the Roman army sent their best soldiers, Spartacus was quickly defeated, suggesting that Spartacus wasn’t a brilliant military leader.
Third, the story that Spartacus wanted to liberate all Roman slaves is not backed by historical evidence either, so where did the story come from? Well, we know exactly who created this story and why. It happened in 18th century Europe. 18th century Europeans widely practiced slavery themselves, but there was also an anti-slavery movement. Thinkers and writers who were strongly opposed to slavery. People in the anti-slavery movement wanted to have an inspirational hero from ancient times, and they thought Spartacus could be that hero. And so an 18th-century playwright wrote a play in which Spartacus fought to liberate all slaves, but it was just an inspirational story in a play, not the historical truth.
The article states that Spartacus, who was the leader of the rebellion against the Roman, had historical and public figures and provides three reasons for supporting it. However, the professor explains that Spartacus was a real fighter against the Romans, but there isno historical accuracy for the information presented in the reading and refutes each author's reasons.
First, the reading claims that the primary Spartacus' goal of conflict against the Roman was to return home. The professor opposes this point by explaining that returning home was only one part of Spartacus' goal. According to the professor, Spartacus tried to conquer the city and reach the Roman wealth and positions.
Second, the article posits that Spartacus had military skills and led him to succeed in his initial battles, and people admired him through his achievements. In contrast, the professor says that Spartacus not only had no military genius, but his military success relied on this important point that the Roman military unit, at first, was so simple that Spartacus could defeat them. At the next battles, the Roman military service used its excellent power against Spartacus' power.
Third, the reading says that Spartacus tried to liberate all Roman slaves. The professor casts doubt on this point by saying that this notion had no reliable evidence. She also states that it is clear who created this story and why. In European history, in 18 century, people needed a hero to dispel any idea regard to the slavery. Spataacus was this hero.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1292.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 249.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18875502008 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43727789617 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558232931727 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 386.1 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9686518695 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.3846153846 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1538461538 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.38461538462 7.06452816374 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 4.19205298013 239% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269094278042 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101417691122 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0667891772783 0.0662205650399 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167418448041 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0519707597781 0.0443174109184 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.2367328918 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.