List of Spartacus (TV series) characters
Spartacus is a Starz television series that focuses on the historical figure of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who, from 73 to 71 BC, led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Executive produced by Steven S. DeKnight and Rob Tapert, the show focuses on the events of Spartacus's early life leading to his recorded history. This article is a list of characters from the television series.Cast
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Spartacus
A Thracian who becomes a gladiator in the ludus of Lentulus Batiatus. Spartacus disobeys an order by legatus Gaius Claudius Glaber, who refused to send his men to protect Spartacus' village. Spartacus' wife Sura is condemned to slavery, and Spartacus is taken to Rome to be executed in the games by Glaber. Instead of dying, Spartacus kills the gladiators sent to kill him, and as a result Spartacus cannot be executed: Glaber would lose faith with the people, as Spartacus has become popular with the crowd. Batiatus purchases Spartacus to either win patronage from Glaber by having him killed, or use the Thracian's popularity for his own ends. Spartacus comes to live at the ludus and eventually proves himself a skilled gladiator. He makes an enemy of Crixus, especially when they defeat Theokoles in which fight Crixus is wounded and Spartacus inherits his title of 'the Champion of Capua'. Batiatus makes a deal with Spartacus that if he continues to fight for Batiatus, he will find Spartacus' wife for him; however, she is brought to the ludus dying from an apparent attack. It is revealed immediately afterwards that Batiatus had Sura murdered so Spartacus would stay at the ludus, as he would have no reason to gain his freedom. Eventually, Spartacus finds out and plans vengeance against Batiatus. He gains the support of Crixus and at a party to announce Batiatus' pursuit of political office, Spartacus leads a slave revolt that kills Batiatus and almost all the people in attendance. After she helps him escape the ludus, Mira becomes Spartacus' lover, until she comes to realize he would never love her the way she loved him. Spartacus also achieves vengeance against Glaber for the misery he caused him and his wife, brutally killing the Roman leader after a protracted conflict. The Thracian eventually has an army of hundreds of thousands of freed slaves, who free one city after another. The tensions between him and Crixus heat up again when Crixus wishes to take their army to Rome, whereas Spartacus would head up to the mountains. He also becomes involved with a former Roman woman named Laeta, who now stands slave with the rest of his people. Spartacus hosts a series of games like the ones he used to fight in, to honor Crixus after his death. In the final battle against Crassus, Spartacus leads his people into the fight, and has Gannicus with another group approach from behind. Although they seem to be fighting their way through the army at first, the rebels eventually start to fall one by one. Spartacus then faces off with Crassus, but when he finally has the Roman on his knees, Spartacus is struck from behind, when three spears pierce his body. Agron and others come to his rescue and take him away before Crassus can finish him, but Spartacus has been mortally wounded, and asks his friends to move on without him. He then dies in the hands of Agron, longing to see his wife again. He is buried at the foot of the mountain, with Agron's shield as a gravestone. Coincidentally, the shield has a red serpent on it, thus making Sura's prediction about Spartacus falling before the great, red serpent, come true.A lanista and Spartacus' master. Insatiably greedy and ambitious, he schemes to become a Roman magistrate. His schemes including ridding himself of his business rival Solonius, as well as gaining sufficient advantage with the local magistrate Calavius and legatus Glaber so that they will provide him patronage. However, after refusing to support his ambition, Batiatus kidnaps and kills Calavius. Using blackmail and the aid of Ashur, he has Solonius condemned to the arena, framed for Calavius's murder, and earns the support of Glaber by threatening to reveal that his wife has murdered a noble woman. His plans to control Spartacus are uncovered and he is slain by Spartacus in the season 1 finale.Lucretia
Lucretia is Batiatus' wife.
Lucretia acts as a willing partner in order to advance Batiatus' goals, and uses deception and blackmail to further his aims.
In Gods of the Arena, Lucretia poisons Batiatus' father to stop him from disowning his son, framing Tullius for the deed. Despite her loyalty to her husband, she regularly has sex with Crixus. Originally, she did this reluctantly in order to give Batiatus a child, but later she started to enjoy this. She jealously resents any other attention to Crixus and, when Ilithyia requests a private session with him, she becomes enraged and tricks Ilithyia, into having sex, with Spartacus and reveals the event to Licinia. She eventually falls pregnant, with Crixus' child. She is furious, when she discovers that, Crixus is in love, with her body slave, Naevia. She has Naevia sold and convinces Batiatus to poison Crixus' food so he will be unable to defeat Spartacus in an exhibition match. When the rebels take control of the villa. She is critically wounded, by an angered Crixus, doing so to prevent her from bearing his child and out of revenge for her treatment of Naevia and himself.
In Vengeance, Lucretia is discovered, by Glaber, when he takes up residence in the former house of Batiatus. Being the only survivor of Spartacus's massacre, she becomes viewed as an oracle, by the people. After the massacre and Quintus' death, Lucretia was found and cleaned up, by Ashur, and initially trusts him because of this. But he later turns on her, because he had realized that, Lucretia does not truly see him as her equal or partner-in-crime, but as an expendable pawn and begins to rape her, forcing her to become his slave and unwilling lover, due to being repeatedly raped, by Ashur, Lucretia was slowly losing her sanity and the will to live. Ashur also plans for Lucretia to become his wife after Glaber sets him free. Despite their previous animosity, she and Ilithyia apparently slowly rekindle their friendship.
But in the season 2 finale, Lucretia is revealed to actually hold a grudge against Ilithyia for her role in the death of Lucretia's husband, Quintus, Lucretia's fall from grace, as well as Lucretia becoming a victim of Ashur's rapes, as Ilithyia prepares to give birth to her child, she takes his vengeance on Ilithyia and kills her servants. Once the child is born, Lucretia claims it as her and Quintus' son. No longer having the will to live, since being repeatedly raped, by Ashur, following Batiatus' death and wanting to give Quintus, who dreamed of becoming a father, a child at all costs, she then commits suicide, by falling off a cliff, taking the baby, with her.
In House of Ashur, Lucretia appears as a spirit in the underworld, who mocks Ashur for all of his misdeeds, including the repeated rapes he had committed against her, which had ultimately led to his deserved death. While doing this, she attempts to conceal her own torment, as she is trapped for eternity, with the man, who had inflicted, such deep emotional and psychological wounds on her. But Lucretia offers Ashur a second chance of life in an alternate timeline, one where he was never killed. But it still remains unclear, whether this is actually Lucretia or just simply a spirit from the underworld, who took on her physical appearance.Oenomaus
Doctore, Gallic gladiator, and trainer of gladiators in Batiatus' ludus. He was rescued from the Pits as a young man by Titus Batiatus and in gratitude, pledges his loyalty to the House of Batiatus. He believes in the honor of the ludus and the House of Batiatus until he learns differently. He is married to Lucretia's body slave, Melitta, until her accidental death by poisoning. Oenomaus is good friends with Gannicus. He was a gladiator until he was seriously wounded in a battle against Theokoles and becomes the new Doctore when he is forced to kill the previous one. Batiatus proposes to make Oenomaus master of the ludus if he is successful in his political ambition. He provides limited aid in the rebellion of the ludus and makes an unsuccessful attempt on Ashur. He keeps himself separated from the rebels at first, and resigns himself back to fighting in the Pits. He is captured by Ashur and tortured for information on Spartacus, eventually learning of the affair between Melitta and Gannicus. He is condemned, along with Crixus and Rhaskos, to fight to his death in the arena and angrily engages Gannicus. He is rescued by Spartacus, and Gannicus later joins the rebels. Oenomaus slowly begins to forgive him. His eye is damaged beyond medical help after a fight with the Egyptian. Oenomaus is slain in the season 2 finale by the Egyptian, following a brazen attack on the Romans to escape the mountaintop on which the slaves were trapped. But Gannicus avenges him by killing the Egyptian. Before dying, he tells Gannicus that he and Melitta will be waiting to greet him in the afterlife.Crixus
A Gaul, he is Batiatus' top gladiator, the lover of Lucretia and the "Champion of Capua". In Gods of the Arena, he is shown to be a slave of Tullius and hauls stone to build the new arena. After witnessing his potential, Batiatus purchases him to curry favor with Tullius. He rises in the ranks of the ludus, eventually becoming second only to Gannicus. When Gannicus earns his freedom, Crixus becomes the new Champion. He and Ashur are bitter enemies and he is revealed to have been the one who burnt and crippled Ashur in the opening games of the new arena. In Blood and Sand, he initially despises Spartacus and believes in the mark of the brotherhood, i.e. being a gladiator is a huge honor and service to the city. However, when paired in a match with Spartacus against an unbeaten foe, Theokoles, he is severely wounded, costing him the title. Spartacus emerges victorious from the match and becomes the new "Champion", giving Crixus more reason to hate him. Crixus is the object of lust for many women, but only desires to be with Naevia. Ashur discovers their affair and manipulates Crixus into revealing it to their masters. Once their affair is discovered, he is beaten and Naevia is sold off. Crixus reveals to a scorned Lucretia that he had never loved her, only Naevia, and shows little care when she claims her unborn child is his. He and Spartacus are scheduled to fight to the death and the two talk the day before. He originally refuses to join in Spartacus' rebellion but the two strike an accord; if Spartacus wins, he will find and free Naevia; if Crixus wins, the rebellion will not happen, but he will kill Batiatus for what he did to Sura. After Crixus discovers his food was drugged, he decides to take part in the rebellion, launching Spartacus into the balcony. In revenge for her actions against Naevia and for poisoning him, Crixus critically injures Lucretia, killing their unborn child. He later sets out to locate Naevia, and finds her in the mines. Though he is captured by the Romans and sentenced to death, Spartacus rescues him and he is finally reunited with Naevia. He helps her to fight like a warrior, so that she will never be anyone's slave again. When the rebellion causes their army to grow to hundreds of thousands, Crixus grows impatient and wishes to set foot to Rome, and take the city. He eventually does so, with Naevia, Agron, and many others, and although victory seems near, it is soon discovered they've been led to a trap, and Crixus is eventually beheaded by Tiberius, the son of Marcus Crassus, who leads the army against Spartacus. Spartacus hosts a series of games in his honor, much like the ones they used to have in the arena, where his strongest people fight the Roman soldiers they've captured.