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Spartacus
Spartacus, Thracian gladiator who led the Third Servile War (73–71 BC), escaped a Capua gladiatorial school, built an army of about 70,000 slaves, defeated several Roman armies, and was crushed by Crassus; later a symbol of freedom.
Stilicho
Flavius Stilicho (c. 365–408 CE), Vandal-descended Roman general and regent for Emperor Honorius, dominated the Western Roman Empire 395–408, defeated Alaric at Pollentia and Radagaisus at Florentia, and was executed at Ravenna on 22 August 408.
Tomyris
Tomyris (Τόμυρις) is the queen of the Massagetae whom Herodotus, in Histories 1.205–214, presents as defeating Cyrus the Great and dipping his severed head in blood in 530 BCE.
Vercingetorix
Vercingetorix was an Arverni chieftain who united Gaul in revolt against Julius Caesar in 52 BCE before surrendering at Alesia and being executed in Rome in 46 BCE.
Xerxes I
Xerxes I (Old Persian Xšaya-ṛšā), Achaemenid king 486–465 BCE, son of Darius I and Atossa; suppressed revolts in Egypt and Babylon, dropped 'King of Babylon', invaded Greece in 480 BCE, built at Persepolis, and was murdered in 465.
Zenobia
Zenobia (Bat-Zabbai, c. 240 – after 274 CE) was queen of Palmyra who, as regent for Vaballathus, ruled a breakaway Near Eastern empire reaching Egypt, was defeated and captured by Aurelian in 272, and lives on in twin Greco-Latin and Arab (al-Zabbāʾ) traditions.