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Role: Lucretia (lu-cree-shuh] |
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John Hannah |
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Role: Quintus Batiatus |
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The beautiful and self-possessed wife of Batiatus, Lucretia is
her husband’s foundation, always supportive of his dreams, however wild the
direction they threaten to grow. Though conscious of the role she’s expected to
play as a proper Roman woman, the ideas she and her husband cultivate and the
company they are prone to keep means Lucretia continually stretches the bonds of
propriety. Though initially reluctant to carry some of their schemes through to
the end, Lucretia will discover that when the moment most needs it, she has a
true talent for manoeuvring the levers of power.
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Batiatus is one in a long line of gladiator owners in his family, and at the
time of the prequel, with his father away attempting to regain his health, has
newly come to inhabit the role. Bold and impulsive where his father is
restrained and conventional, Batiatus wishes to seize more for himself, to rise
beyond his father’s station. With his wife Lucretia ever by his side fueling his
ambitions, Batiatus schemes beyond his reach.
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Role:
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Peter Mensah |
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Role: Oenomaus [en-uh-may-us] |
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Father to Batiatus,
Titus is frail and
ill of health yet
still looms large as
a commanding,
paternalistic voice
of discretion in his
son’s life. Titus is
a man of tradition,
a proud
master of gladiators
who is devoted to
the old ways and
disapproving of his
son’s departure from
them. His
conservative
instincts are
triggered by the
audacious
initiatives
of Batiatus and
Lucretia, throwing
them all into
greater and greater
conflict, which
threatens the house
he’s given
everything to build.
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Oenomaus is who we already know as Doctore. But at this time he
is not yet the rigid disciplinarian who will come to reign over the ludus as the
gladiator trainer. He is not far
removed from the status of top gladiator at the House of Batiatus, having only
recently survived his fight with the legendary Theokoles. He longs to return to
the sands of the arena and reclimb the peak he feels is rightfully his, but he
is yet a slave like so many others and bound to the notions of his masters. He
finds himself caught in the middle of much turmoil, his status seized between
the generational conflict within the house, between old loyalties and new
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Dustin Clare |
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Role: Gannicus [gan-uh-cuss] |
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Manu Bennett |
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Role: Crixus |
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A true physical specimen, fearless in the arena and possessed of a thirst for
the fleeting pleasures of life, Gannicus is the gladiator a girl’s mother
doesn’t want her to bring home. Newly promoted to the top position at Batiatus’s
ludus, Gannicus is best friend to
Oenomaus and his wife Melitta, forming an unlikely triangle of loyal friendship
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The future Champion of Capua is at this time a newly purchased
recruit enlisted into Batiatus’s gladiator school. Crixus revels in the
opportunity put before him, to become a gladiator, to reap the glory that he’s
always longed for. But to attain it, he’ll have to start
at the bottom of the gladiator food chain and fight the titans above him.
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Nick E Tarabay |
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Role: Asher |
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Lesley-Ann Brandt |
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Role: Naevia |
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Having just arrived
with the new batch
of recruits, along
with Crixus, Ashur
is swept up in the
grueling fight to
survive and prove
himself worthy
enough to secure
standing as a
gladiator. When it
quickly proves
difficult for him to
advance on pure
physical ability
alone, he must call
on his more devious
gifts in order to
assure his place.
Read AUSXIP
Interview with Nick |
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Naevia is new to
Batiatus’ villa, and
soon learns that the
position of female
slave is vulnerable
to both her masters’
bidding and the
random turn of fate.
Read AUSXIP
Interview with
Lesley-Ann
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Craig Walsh-Wrightson |
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Role: Solonius |
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Temuera Morrison |
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Role: Doctore |
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The future rival of Batiatus, Solonius is at this time a friend, trying to do
what he thinks best in attempting to navigate a path between Batiatus’s bold
enterprises and his own
position at the foot of Capua's elite powerbrokers.
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Jaime Murray |
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Role: Gaia |
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Marissa Ramirez |
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Role: Melitta |
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A long time friend
of Lucretia, Gaia
arrives unannounced
in Capua, bringing
along her taste for
certain vices. On
the prowl for a new
husband, endowed
with beauty, sexual
adventurousness and
an artful mind, she
lends her assets to
the cause of her
friends, stoking
their schemes.
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Personal slave to
Lucretia and wife to
Oenomaus, the lovely
and dedicated
Melitta struggles to
balance the small
portion of freedom
she's attained
within the villa.
Subjected to the
careless whims of
her masters, she
finds herself caught
up in a web of
desire and betrayal
that threatens to
tear apart her
fragile place in
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Stephen Lovatt |
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Role: Tullius |
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Antonio Te Maioha |
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Role: Barca |
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Tullius is the man that Batiatus would like to be. He sits at the head of
Capua’s elite class, steeped in money and rank and fearing no other’s ambition.
This is the man who holds the proverbial keys to the kingdom and he has no
interest in loosening them from his grip without extracting a painful cost from
those beneath him.
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Barca is one of the most accomplished gladiators in the Batiatus
stable, prized by his master for his prowess inside the arena and his skill and
discretion in the service of less noble missions outside of it. Despite the
brutality of a gladiator’s way of life, Barca exhibits a capacity for deeper
feeling rare among his brethren.
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Gareth Williams |
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Role:
Vettius |
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Josef Brown |
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Role: Auctus |
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Vettius is a young
upstart lanista
benefitting from the
patronage of the
powerful Tullius.
This relationship
enables him to fight
his gladiators in
the best position in
the games, to the
exclusion of
Batiatus'
gladiators. Vettius'
proximity to Capua's
influential class,
and his unearned
posture of
superiority, makes
him a target of
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Gladiator and Barca's lover. |
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Jessica Grace Smith |
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Role: Diona |
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David E. Woodley |
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Role: Petronius |
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Naevia's best friend
and slaves in the
house of Batiatus |
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Character description coming soon |
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