In the last century before the birth of the new faith called Christianity which was destined to overthrow the pagan tyranny of Rome and bring about a new society, the Roman Republic stood at the very center of the civilized world... .Yet, even at the zenith of her pride and power, the republic lay fatally stricken with a disease called...human slavery."" The movie Spartacus is based on a true story of an ex-slave creating an army to fight against the tyranny of Rome.
             In the years 73-74 B.C.E., Spartacus led a slave revolt against the Roman Empire. The real Spartacus was born into a group of nomadic herders who at one point served in the Roman army. After deserting the army he was captured and was enslaved, trained as a gladiator. Spartacus broke out of gladiator school and formed his own army of 70,000 runaway slaves. After a stint of victories the army was defeated in southern Italy. Spartacus was killed in the battle.
             The movie portrays Spartacus as a born slave who has been working in a quarry since he was thirteen. At the beginning of the story, Spartacus is taken from the quarry and brought to the gladiatorial school of Batiatus in Capua. What follows the arrival at the school is weeks of hard training. Spartacus becomes the trainers pet. "Some of our gladiators even become freemen."" The trainer, Marcellus, is a freeman who was once a gladiator himself. The gladiators are pampered. Batiatus sends them all women every once I a while. The first time a women is sent to Spartacus' room, he doesn't know what to do. After Marcellus and Batiatus laugh at this he shouts, "I'm not an animal."" No part of the slaves lives was private. After that night Spartacus and the woman Virinia kept an eye out for each other.
             The turning point in the beginning of the movie is when Crassus, the First General of the Republic, comes around for a visit. He has come with his wife, Claudia, to celebrate the wedding of Helena and Glabrus. The ge...