Gannicus or
Cannicus was a
Gallic slave, who together with the
Thracian Spartacus, and the fellow Gauls
Crixus,
Oenomaus and
Castus, became one of the leaders of rebel slaves during the
Third Servile War (73-71 BC). In the winter of 71 BC, Gannicus, along with Castus, broke off from Spartacus, taking a large number of Celts and Germans with them, marking the second detachment of the rebellion. Gannicus and Castus met their end in Lucania near Mount Soprano (Mount Camalatrum), where
Marcus Licinius Crassus, Lucius Pomptinus and
Quintus Marcius Rufus entrenched their forces in battle and defeated them.