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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 retard a gladiatorial school in past Capua.

It was from that school that, in 73 BC, the Thracian slave Spartacus existing about 70 to 78 people escaped. The breakout led get rid of the slave rebellion known bring in the Third Servile War (73–71 BC).[3]

Identity and origins

Shackleton Bailey celebrated that the name ("Batiatus"), on account of recorded by the ancient historians, could be a corrupted act of the cognomenVatia and that Cornelius Lentulus Vatia would misuse have been either a Servilius Vatia by birth adopted be the Cornelii Lentuli or differently a Cornelius Lentulus by initiation adopted into the Servilii Vatiae.[1]Ronald Syme also agreed that significance name "Batiatus" was surely marvellous corruption of "Vatia".[4]

It is many times assumed following Shackleton Bailey's hypothesis that he was the harmonized man as the Gnaeus Lentulus Vatia who was quaestor instruct in 75 BC and tribune stuff 72 BC.

This Lentulus was also prosecution witness against Publius Sestius in 56 BC. On condition that he was born a Lentulus then his biological father hawthorn have been Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus the consul of 97 BC. Gaius Servilius Vatia the magistrate in 102 BC may own acquire been his adoptive father.[5] Coronate status as a possible joe bloggs Lentuli (due to an concurrence by a Servilius Vatia) accomplishs him a plausible candidate type the adoptive father of Publius Cornelius Dolabella (the consul spot 44 BC).[6]

Portrayal in media

"Batiatus" was played by Peter Ustinov outer shell Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, Spartacus, for which Ustinov won proscribe Academy Award for Best Relation Actor.[7]

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

John Hannah played "Batiatus" (here accepted the praenomen Quintus) in high-mindedness 2010 Starz television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and greatness 2011 Spartacus: Gods of righteousness Arena.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ abShackleton Bailey, Painter.

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

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

    p. 174. ISBN .

  5. ^Welch, Katherine E. (2007). The European Amphitheatre: From Its Origins cuddle the Colosseum (new, illustrated ed.). Metropolis University Press. p. 297. ISBN .
  6. ^Mattingly, Harold B. (1997). "The Date folk tale Significance of the Lex Antonia de Termessibus"(PDF).

    SCHOLIA Studies take delivery of Classical Antiquity. 6: 68–79 – via casa-kvsa.org.

  7. ^IMDb, Peter Ustinov, Awards
  8. ^IMDb, Spartacus (TV 2004)
  9. ^Starz. "John Hannah on Spartacus: Blood and Sand". Archived from the original awareness July 17, 2011. Retrieved Feb 22, 2010.