CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS QUINTUS BATIATUS [kwinn ... - Starz
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS QUINTUS BATIATUS [kwinn ... - Starz
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<strong>CHARACTER</strong> <strong>DESCRIPTIONS</strong><br />
<strong>QUINTUS</strong> <strong>BATIATUS</strong><br />
[<strong>kwinn</strong>-tus/BAH-tee-ah-tus]<br />
Batiatus is one in a long line of gladiator owners in his family, and at the time of the<br />
prequel, with his father away attempting to regain his health, has newly come to inhabit<br />
the role. Bold and impulsive where his father is restrained and conventional, Batiatus<br />
wishes to seize more for himself, to rise beyond his father’s station. With his wife<br />
Lucretia ever by his side fueling his ambitions, Batiatus schemes beyond his reach.<br />
LUCRETIA<br />
[lu-cree-shuh]<br />
The beautiful and self-possessed wife of Batiatus, Lucretia is her husband’s foundation,<br />
always supportive of his dreams, however wild the direction they threaten to grow.<br />
Though conscious of the role she’s expected to play as a proper Roman woman, the ideas<br />
she and her husband cultivate and the company they are prone to keep means Lucretia<br />
continually stretches the bonds of propriety. Though initially reluctant to carry some of<br />
their schemes through to the end, Lucretia will discover that when the moment most<br />
needs it, she has a true talent for maneuvering the levers of power.<br />
TITUS <strong>BATIATUS</strong><br />
[tite-us/BAH-tee-ah-tus]<br />
Father to Batiatus, Titus is frail and ill of health yet still looms large as a commanding,<br />
paternalistic voice of discretion in his son’s life. Titus is a man of tradition, a proud<br />
master of gladiators who is devoted to the old ways and disapproving of his son’s<br />
departure from them. His conservative instincts are triggered by the audacious initiatives<br />
of Batiatus and Lucretia, throwing them all into greater and greater conflict, which<br />
threatens the house he’s given everything to build.
OENOMAUS<br />
[en-uh-may-us]<br />
Oenomaus is who we already know as Doctore. But at this time he is not yet the rigid<br />
disciplinarian who will come to reign over the ludus as the gladiator trainer. He is not far<br />
removed from the status of top gladiator at the House of Batiatus, having only recently<br />
survived his fight with the legendary Theokoles. He longs to return to the sands of the<br />
arena and reclimb the peak he feels is rightfully his, but he is yet a slave like so many<br />
others and bound to the notions of his masters. He finds himself caught in the middle of<br />
much turmoil, his status seized between the generational conflict within the house,<br />
between old loyalties and new responsibilities.<br />
GANNICUS<br />
[gan-uh-cuss]<br />
A true physical specimen, fearless in the arena and possessed of a thirst for the fleeting<br />
pleasures of life, Gannicus is the gladiator a girl’s mother doesn’t want her to bring<br />
home. Newly promoted to the top position at Batiatus’s ludus, Gannicus is best friend to<br />
Oenomaus and his wife Melitta, forming an unlikely triangle of loyal friendship.<br />
MELITTA<br />
[muh-lee-tuh]<br />
Personal slave to Lucretia and wife to Oenomaus, the lovely and dedicated Melitta<br />
struggles to balance the small portion of freedom she's attained within the confines of the<br />
villa with the cold reality of her very real status as a slave. She is subjected to the<br />
careless whims of her masters and their debauched Roman friends and finds herself<br />
caught up in a web of desire and betrayal that threatens to tear apart her fragile place in<br />
the world.<br />
CRIXUS<br />
[cricks-us]<br />
The future Champion of Capua is at this time a newly purchased recruit enlisted into<br />
Batiatus’s gladiator school. Crixus revels in the opportunity put before him, to become a<br />
gladiator, to reap the glory that he’s always longed for. But to attain it, he’ll have to start<br />
at the bottom of the gladiator food chain and fight the titans above him.
ASHUR<br />
[ash-ur]<br />
Having just arrived with the new batch of recruits, along with Crixus, Ashur is swept up<br />
in the grueling fight to survive and prove himself worthy enough to secure standing as a<br />
gladiator. When it quickly proves difficult for him to advance on pure physical ability<br />
alone, he must call on his more devious gifts in order to assure his place.<br />
SOLONIUS<br />
[so-low-nee-us]<br />
The future rival of Batiatus, Solonius is at this time a friend, trying to do what he thinks<br />
best in attempting to navigate a path between Batiatus’s bold enterprises and his own<br />
position at the foot of Capua's elite powerbrokers.<br />
TULLIUS<br />
[TUL-ee-us]<br />
Tullius is the man that Batiatus would like to be. He sits at the head of Capua’s elite<br />
class, steeped in money and rank and fearing no other’s ambition. This is the man who<br />
holds the proverbial keys to the kingdom and he has no interest in loosening them from<br />
his grip without extracting a painful cost from those beneath him.<br />
GAIA<br />
[guy-uh]<br />
A long time friend of Lucretia, Gaia arrives unannounced in Capua, bringing along her<br />
taste for certain vices. On the prowl for a new husband, endowed with beauty, sexual<br />
adventurousness and an artful mind, she lends her assets to the cause of her friends,<br />
stoking their schemes.<br />
NAEVIA<br />
[Nay-via]<br />
Naevia is new to Batiatus’ villa, and soon learns that the position of female slave is vulnerable<br />
to both her masters’ bidding and the random turn of fate.<br />
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