The manager of a gladiatorial school in Capua who recognizes Spartacus' potential and purchases him. He sells Varinia to Crassus and flees when his slaves revolt. Later, he is bribed by Gracchus to rescue and smuggle Spartacus' widow and son out of Rome to safety.
Batiatus initially possesses legal and economic power over Spartacus.
Batiatus purchases Spartacus for his gladiatorial school and controls his training and conditions of servitude.
Batiatus treats Varinia as property within the slave economy.
Batiatus sends Varinia away from the gladiatorial school and sells her to Crassus's household.
Marcellus operates under Batiatus within the gladiatorial school.
Batiatus instructs trainer Marcellus to train Spartacus without destroying the quality he sees in him.
Their connection is based on the commercial exchange of enslaved people.
Crassus visits Batiatus's gladiatorial school, and Batiatus later sells Varinia to him.
They are connected indirectly through the Roman response to the revolt.
Batiatus is involved in the political plan to remove Spartacus's army from Italy, a plan that Caesar rejects as undignified.
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