Lentulus Batiatus

Lentulus Batiatus

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Lentulus Batiatus was the owner of the Roman gladiatorial school in Capua (near Mount Vesuvius) who owned Spartacus, the leader of the slave...

Gaius Cassius Longinus

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Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman consul in 73 BC (together with Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus). Cassius and his colleague passed the "lex...
Crixus

Crixus

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Crixus (d. 72 BCE) was a leader of the slave rebellion in the Third Servile War, along with Spartacus and Oenomaus. He was a Gaul (his name means...
Spartacus

Spartacus

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Spartacus (ca. 120 BC – ca. 70 BC, at the end of the Third Servile War), according to Roman historians, was a gladiator-slave who became the al...

Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus

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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus was one of two Consuls of the Roman Republic in 72 BCE along with Lucius Gellius Publicola. He is noted for...

Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus

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Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (ca. 116- soon after 56 BC), younger brother of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, was a supporter of Lucius...

Lucius Gellius Publicola

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Lucius Gellius Publicola was one of two Consuls of the Roman Republic in 72 BCE along with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. He is noted for...
Verres

Verres

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Gaius Verres (ca. 120-43 BC), was a Roman magistrate, notorious for his misgovernment of Sicily. It is not known to what "gens" he belonged. At...
Publius Varinius

Publius Varinius

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Publius Varinius was a Roman praetor in 73 BC and proconsul in 72 BC and suffered several defeats against Spartacus' rebellious slaves during the...

Draba

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Draba was an Ethiopian, who was enslaved by the Romans, and sent to the great and popular Gladitorial School of Capua, and a friend of Spartacus,...