Editing Spartacus (Blood and Sand) (section)

==== Character Relationships and Personal Life: ====

* The friendship between Spartacus and Varro felt genuine because Andy Whitfield and Jai Courtney were close friends in real life, maintaining their bond until Whitfield's death.
* Spartacus avenges both his significant others, Mira and Sura, by killing Salvius and Glaber respectively.
* Both Spartacus and Crixus father children who meet tragic ends, with Spartacus's child being killed by Lucretia in a suicide act in Vengeance.
* Spartacus never truly smiles again after Varro's death, reflecting the deep impact of the loss on him. Spartacus's lovers in the series have names ending with "a" (Sura, Mira, and Laeta), and he is implied to have loved each deeply. Historical and Cultural Details:
* Spartacus hails from the Maedi tribe of Thrace, located in what is now southwest Bulgaria, specifically the region of Blagoevgrad Province. The Maedi were a Hellenized Thracian tribe aligned with the Odrysian Kingdom, east of Macedonia. Spartacus's warrior background is akin to that of a Greek hoplite, indicating his higher status within his tribe.
* His home region’s capital was Iamphorynna, possibly near modern Petrich or Sandanski.