Executive produced by Steven S. DeKnight and Rob Tapert, the show focuses on the events of Spartacus's early life leading to his recorded history.
His schemes including ridding himself of his business rival Solonius, as well as gaining sufficient advantage with the local magistrate Calavius and legatus Glaber so that they will provide him patronage.
She has Naevia sold and convinces Batiatus to poison Crixus' food so he will be unable to defeat Spartacus in an exhibition match.
When the rebels take control of the villa, she is critically wounded by an angered Crixus, doing so to prevent her from bearing his child and out of revenge for her treatment of Naevia and himself.
But he later turns on her because he had realized that Lucretia doesn't truly see him as her equal or partner-in-crime, but as an expendable pawn and begins to rape her, forcing her to become his unwilling lover.
No longer having the will to live since Batiatus's death, due to Ashur's rapes and wanting to give Quintus, who dreamed of becoming a father, a child at all costs, She then commits suicide by falling off a cliff, taking the baby with her.
Oenomaus is slain in the season 2 finale by the Egyptian, following a brazen attack on the Romans to escape the mountaintop on which the slaves were trapped.
In Blood and Sand, he initially despises Spartacus and believes in the mark of the brotherhood, i.e. being a gladiator is a huge honor and service to the city.
Spartacus hosts a series of games in his honor, much like the ones they used to have in the arena, where his strongest people fight the Roman soldiers they've captured.
Though Dagan eventually earns the respect of the other gladiators with his combat skills, Ashur proves a much less competent fighter and is the subject of constant scorn.
His treachery in the fate of Barca and Calavius is uncovered, which almost costs him his life at the hands of Oenomaus, but he manages to hide under a Roman soldier's corpse.
After the rebellion, he sets out to seek information about her whereabouts, and eventually finds her in the deepest mines of Rome, taking her back with him.
Her hatred causes a large rift between the major generals of the rebel army, particularly Spartacus, as well as Gannicus, after they refuse to kill the unarmed Roman families who were in a city they had taken.
Games are held pitting Roman soldiers against gladiators in honor of Crixus, with Naevia to face a now captive Tiberius in the primus.
Forced to her knees from a slash to her kneecap, she is then stabbed in the neck, and through the heart (mirroring the manner in which Diona was killed) with her own sword.
While trapped on Mt Vesuvius, Mira helps Spartacus rescue a group of rebels attempting to escape the surrounding Roman forces and is struck by an axe, launched by Salvius, Glaber's new second-in-command.
Many months later, after it is revealed to him that his wife murdered Licinia, the cousin of Marcus Crassus, he is forced to grant Batiatus patronage in his quest to gain political station.
When Spartacus offers to trade Ilithyia for weapons and armor, Glaber refuses the deal, essentially condemning his wife.
Lucretia, revealing that all along she has been madly set on bringing a child at last to her husband, kills the servants, cuts the baby from her womb and falls over the cliff with it.
Crixus' army is defeated by the Romans, but several are captured alive; and Agron, refusing to give up Spartacus' location, is crucified.
A Celt slave who becomes Quintus' first champion, a position left vacant by the grave injury suffered by Gannicus' close friend Oenomaus at the hands of Theokoles.
Meanwhile, Gannicus' flashy style and cavalier attitude gain him much favor with the spectators and Quintus, but are met with indignation by Titus Batiatus upon the pater familias' return to the ludus.
Titus, feeling pressure to mend social and political relationships scarred by Quintus' actions, agrees to sell Gannicus to Tullius.
Quintus finally regains the social standing his father willingly parted with, and manages to enter his men into the opening games of the Capua arena.
In an act of betrayal, Solonius convinces Varis to award Gannicus his freedom, thereby robbing the house of Batiatus of their only proven champion.
While cynical of Spartacus' cause at first, he is won over with the help of Oenomaus, who has forgiven Gannicus for his forced relationship with Melitta, and serves a vital role in the rebellion.
He is involved in a relationship with Saxa, but ultimately leaves her for Sibyl, a young slave he helped free after taking over the city of Sinuessa en Valle.
He is nearly killed by Crixus before the gladiator is ambushed from behind by Tiberius in an attempt to steal glory; much to Caesar's anger, and is forced to watch as his adversary is executed.
The main antagonist of War of the Damned; the richest man in Rome and a senator of the Republic tasked with bringing end to the rebellion.
He takes his slave Kore as a lover and shows her great affection, even asking her to accompany him while he engages Spartacus and is devastated when she joins the rebellion to escape his son.