Ben Kane

They were

Definitely a warlike people who didn't take kindly to anybody coming into their territory.

So he would have been a natural warrior just from growing up.

And then he was a Roman soldier and he would have quite likely learned Roman tactics.

And then he was made to be a gladiator where he would have continued to fight.

And so there were a lot of things standing to him which helped, no doubt, to form him into the man he became.

My memory fails me.

I think there's mention of him potentially one of the sources that he was a deserter and that he was caught.

You got to remember with slavery in the ancient world that you didn't have ID.

You didn't have proof of I'm a British citizen.

I'm an American citizen.

Here's my passport.

If you were a non-Roman, i.e.

a non-citizen, and some Roman soldiers in a combat zone took you as a slave,

nobody was going to stop you being a slave you could shout and scream all you liked so wrongful slavery i mean how can slavery ever be right but my point is that enslaving people just because they felt like it was potentially quite easy to happen and nobody would undo it unless you could prove that you shouldn't be a slave and how are you going to do that

So slavery after battles, you know, when a Roman army won a battle, it was just, you just became a slave.

There was no say in it.

Oh, well, what did I do?

Well, you're on the losing side, buddy.

So, yeah.