Spartacus Lanista __link__

What Spartacus does brilliantly is show that the individual lanista is just a cog. The real lanista is Rome itself—a society that commodifies violence for entertainment. Every lanista in the show is trapped:

The immediate aftermath of the breakout was catastrophic for the lanista of Capua. The escaped slaves raided the armory and the streets, freeing other slaves and looting the surrounding countryside. The business empire of the lanista was dismantled in a single night. spartacus lanista