History Fridge / SpartacusBloodAndSand

* Agron's CatchPhrase is: "F*cking Gauls!", usually spoken in relation to something Crixus is doing. As Gaul is basically the future France, and Agron is a German, this is almost an ancient foreshadowing of later Franco-Germanic relations across the next 2,000+ years.

* Few slave characters seem to have parents or siblings, or any family to speak of, not even mentioning or alluding to them. Then you realise it's probably because they were separated from their families at a young age to be sold to different Romans. They may not even know or remember their families, or they may be dead.
* When Ashur is torturing Oenomaus, he cuts off the mark of the brotherhood on his arm. Whilst this is no doubt excruciatingly painful, one then remembers how much the brotherhood means to Oenomaus. He has always been proud and honored to be a gladiator of the House of Batiatus and still clings to that after losing everything else. So when Ashur cuts off his brand, he's basically cutting away one of the most cherished parts of Oenomaus' identity.

* Few slave characters seem to have parents or siblings, or any family to speak of, not even mentioning or alluding to them. Then you realise it's probably because they were separated from their families at a young age to be sold to different Romans. They may not even know or remember their families, or they may be dead.

* Lucretia's continued rape at the hands of Ashur becomes especially horrific when you remember the layout of the ludus. The first act is as shocking as it is unexpected, but then he begins blackmailing her to allow it to continue to happen. But consider that it occurs a cell beneath the ludus. This means that Lucretia must continually walk through her home, into a prison beneath it to be raped. She has to UNLOCK the very doors meant to protect her from Ashur, descend into the prison, with the dread of what is about to happen increasing with every step. Afterwards she has to walk back up into her home, lock the door behind her, and put on a happy face, and then repeat the process again the next day.

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* In S1E1, Sura tells her husband that she'd had a warning dream: an image of him on his knees before a red serpent, his life draining away. It gives the impression that the red serpent is the symbol of an enemy that will claim his life, and in that first episode he does face a gladiator with a red serpent on his shield--and defeats him. But then in S4E10, after Spartacus is mortally injured by three spears and he is slowly bleeding out around them, Agron rushes to his aid and helps him up from the ground to his knees... while wearing a shield with a red serpent strapped to his arm.

* In S1E1, Sura tells her husband that she'd had a warning dream: an image of him on his knees before a red serpent, his life draining away. It gives the impression that the red serpent is the symbol of an enemy that will claim his life. In S4E10, after Spartacus is mortally injured by three spears and he is slowly bleeding out around them, Agron rushes to his aid and helps him up from the ground to his knees... while wearing a shield with a red serpent strapped to his arm.

* The final speech delivered by Agron: "One day Rome shall fade and crumble..." is somewhat ironic as well as prophetic, since the Germanic peoples, especially the Visigoths, Vandals and Ostrogoths, would play a major role in the breakup of the Roman Empire and the sack of the city of Rome itself in 410, 455 and 546C.E. respectively.

* Agron's CatchPhrase is: "F*cking Gauls!", usually spoken in relation to something Crixus is doing. As Gaul is basically the future France, and Agron is a German, this is almost an ancient foreshadowing of later Franco-Germanic relations across the next 2,000+ years.

* Agron's CatchPhrase is: "F*cking Gauls!", usually spoken in relation to something Crixus is doing. As Gaul is basically the future France, and Agron is a German, this is almost an ancient foreshadowing of later Franco-Germanic relations across the next 2,000+ years.
* Agron's decision to free Germanic slaves, as opposed to Syrian or Gaulish ones, actually makes a certain logical sense. A common issue with Crixus was that the Gauls among the rebel slaves tended to follow his lead, perhaps to a greater extent than that of Spartacus. Increasing the number of Gauls in their ranks could have led to Crixus becoming the de facto leader of the rebellion, so it makes sense that Agron would favor his own people, who he felt that he could handle better, rather than giving Crixus even more Gaulish followers.

* Agron's CatchPhrase is: "F*cking Gauls!", usually spoken in relation to something Crixus is doing. As Gaul is basically the future France, and Agron is a German, this is almost an ancient foreshadowing of later Franco-Germanic relations across the next 2,000+ years.