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Spartacus characters12/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Irvin is a well-regarded historian who's also consulted on many TV series, including "Spartacus" (2010), "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena" (2011), and "Roman Empire" (2016). Fundamentally though, gladiators were slaves, and generally they were considered the lowest of the low, the most worthless and useless of slaves," says Aaron Irvin, a history professor at Murray State University in Kentucky. "Gladiators were a longstanding tradition in Rome, one that was originally related to funerals. Born in roughly 109 B.C.E., his life's mostly a mystery to history until he became a thorn in the side of the Roman Empire.īut we do know that he was sent to a gladiator school in Capua where he was trained to fight others with various weapons, as entertainment for massive crowds in arenas. Instead, he was considered part of the dregs of society. ![]() Spartacus, a Thracian man, wasn't born to wealth or power.
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