Tristan Hughes

Well, as with Spartacus, it's enslaved people.

And you mentioned Campania, so that's a beautiful region south of Rome today.

Think of Mount Vesuvius, think of Pompeii.

But this region, it's also like the epicenter of gladiatorial fights of these gladiator schools, and that's still the case in the first century BC.

Or a butcher.

But it's this figure, Batiatus, who acquires Spartacus and takes him to his gladiator school.

Plus, we don't know what he did.

Well, I was going to ask, I mean, do we have any idea what he would have done whilst he was still in the service of Batyarskis?

So a Thracian was actually one of them.

We're also thinking about the name.

Would he have been given the name Spartacus when he was there, that link to royal Thrace involved?

I just love mentioning that because there is, in the Crimea of all places, for a time, a Greco-Thracian dynasty, it is believed, it's not completely sure, that is commonly called the Spartacid dynasty as well.

It's funny how you can then explain why the name Spartacus can also be linked to Crimea just as much as Italy, as we're discussing today.

Okay then, let's get into the escape and the revolt of Spartacus.

So what do we know?

How does he escape the house of Batiatus?

It sounds like a bandit camp, you know, right at the top of the hill where you wouldn't venture this idea.

So this is why if someone searches Spartacus today, you might also see, in other words, the Third Servile War.

Correct, correct.

The story would have been in the form of Pompeii, you know, all of those places.