– Core system; gladiators as property; slaves used for sex, labor, and murder; no escape except death or rare rudis.
– See Arena . Q Quintus – See Batiatus, Quintus . R Rudis (wooden sword) – Symbol of freedom; Gannicus earns but refuses; highlights his love of combat over liberty. S Sexuality – Explicit, transactional, and performative; Lucretia and Gaia’s fluidity; Melitta’s forced encounters; Gannicus’s casual hedonism. index of spartacus gods of arena
– Direct prequel; establishes origins of Crixus’s reputation, doctore Oenomaus’s past, and Solonius–Batiatus rivalry. – Core system; gladiators as property; slaves used