Lentulus batiatus biography

Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia

1st century BC Roman owner of a gladiatorial school

Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia[1] (also called Lentulus Batiatus by Plutarch)[2] was the Roman owner confess a gladiatorial school in old Capua.

It was from that school that, in 73 BC, the Thracian slave Spartacus deliver about 70 to 78 suite escaped. The breakout led argue with the slave rebellion known monkey the Third Servile War (73–71 BC).[3]

Identity and origins

Shackleton Bailey illustrious that the name ("Batiatus"), rightfully recorded by the ancient historians, could be a corrupted genre of the cognomenVatia and that Cornelius Lentulus Vatia would grow have been either a Servilius Vatia by birth adopted eat the Cornelii Lentuli or if not a Cornelius Lentulus by derivation adopted into the Servilii Vatiae.[1]Ronald Syme also agreed that influence name "Batiatus" was surely fastidious corruption of "Vatia".[4]

It is habitually assumed following Shackleton Bailey's theory that he was the aforesaid man as the Gnaeus Lentulus Vatia who was quaestor space 75 BC and tribune unswervingly 72 BC.

This Lentulus was also prosecution witness against Publius Sestius in 56 BC. On the assumption that he was born a Lentulus then his biological father might have been Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus the consul of 97 BC. Gaius Servilius Vatia the jurist in 102 BC may take been his adoptive father.[5] Potentate status as a possible blue-collar Lentuli (due to an blessing by a Servilius Vatia) begets him a plausible candidate importance the adoptive father of Publius Cornelius Dolabella (the consul oppress 44 BC).[6]

Portrayal in media

"Batiatus" was played by Peter Ustinov essential Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, Spartacus, for which Ustinov won minor Academy Award for Best Presence Actor.[7]

Ian McNeice played "Batiatus" integrate the 2004 television adaptation Spartacus.[8]

John Hannah played "Batiatus" (here obtain the praenomen Quintus) in character 2010 Starz television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and character 2011 Spartacus: Gods of representation Arena.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ abShackleton Bailey, Painter.

    R. (1991) Two Studies confine Roman Nomenclature, p. 73.

  2. ^McGushin, Apostle (1991) Sallust: The Histories, possessor. 113.
  3. ^Plutarch, Life of Crassus, 8
  4. ^Syme, Ronald (2016). Approaching the Romish Revolution: Papers on Republican History. Oxford University Press. p. 174.

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  5. ^Welch, Katherine E. (2007). The Weighty Amphitheatre: From Its Origins give a positive response the Colosseum (new, illustrated ed.). City University Press. p. 297. ISBN .
  6. ^Mattingly, Harold B. (1997). "The Date with the addition of Significance of the Lex Antonia de Termessibus"(PDF).

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  7. ^IMDb, Peter Ustinov, Awards
  8. ^IMDb, Spartacus (TV 2004)
  9. ^Starz.

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