Gaius Claudius Glaber- Spartacus

*remembering that one scene in Spartacus where Ilithyia was noticeably pregnant but her war general husband was loosing respect and status so she had her eye on a more powerful general and he fingered her in public and said he’d take her if she got rid of her husbands baby and would have her husband killed and so she decided she was going to do it*

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ilithyia and glaber are both incredibly toxic to each other and just in general. but glaber constantly forgets that he has the positions and titles he does because of ilithyia, and he would not be nearly as respected without her. but he’s over here on his high horse and then gets all upset when ilithyia she decides she wants someone equal to her in status. like sir sit down.

Homosexuality and the First Fifteen Roman Emperors

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) famously declared that "of the first fifteen emperors, Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct" [i.e. strictly heterosexual]... but how true is that statement?

I did a little research and, while in no way offering a definitive answer over the matter, found evidence of homosexual activities for thirteen out of fifteen names. Besides the already mentioned Claudius, I didn't find any allegations about Vespasian and Antoninus Pius, who also seemed to be strictly attracted to women.

With the exception of the ones about Nerva and Hadrian, all following quotes were taken from Craig A. Williams' Roman Homosexuality.

(Warning: most quotes include mentions of some kind of non-consensual relationship, including with minors)

AUGUSTUS

Augustus himself acquired the reputation of an avid womanizer, but he also was said to have kept male slaves as his deliciae or “darlings,” one of whom, named Sarmentus, is mentioned in passing by Plutarch.

Augustus, one late source gossips, used to sleep in the midst of twelve catamiti and as many girls.

TIBERIUS

Funerary inscriptions from the imperial household under Augustus and Tiberius reveal that among the different positions filled by slaves in the palace were those of glaber ab cyatho (a smooth boy who served wine), glabrorum ornator (a male slave who served as beautician for the smooth boys), and puerorum ornatrix (a female beautician for boys).

Suetonius’ allusion to Galba’s tastes for mature males is far removed in tone from his explicitly moralizing condemnation of Tiberius’ shocking sexual use of very young boys (what he did “cannot be mentioned or heard, let alone believed”).

CALIGULA

Suetonius uses the coded phrase “pudicitiae neque suae neque alienae pepercit” (“he spared neither his own nor others’ pudicitia,” signifying that he played the receptive and insertive roles in penetrative acts respectively), and then reports some examples in rapid succession: two relationships with men that seem to have involved an exchange of role; an affair with a young nobleman named Valerius Catullus in which Caligula played the receptive role (Valerius claimed to have been worn out by his exertions).

CLAUDIUS

Suetonius has this to say of the emperor Claudius: “He was possessed of an extravagant desire for women, having no experience with males whatsoever."

NERO

Suetonius, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, and Aurelius Victor tell us that the emperor Nero publicly celebrated at least two wedding ceremonies with males, one in which he was the groom and one or perhaps two in which he was the bride, and they provide stunning details: dowry was given, a bridal veil worn.

GALBA

Suetonius records that the emperor Galba was particularly fond of men who were “very hard and grown up,” and it is worth noting that Galba’s fondness for mature men seems to have caused no eyebrows to rise, presumably because he was observing the two basic protocols of masculine sexual comportment: maintaining the appearance of an appropriately dominant stance with his partners and keeping himself to his own slaves and to prostitutes.

OTHO

Dio notes that Galba’s successor Otho alienated many people by having relations with Sporos and generally associating with Nero’s followers.

VITELLIUS

Vitellius began his brief reign as emperor in A.D. 69 by publicly honoring a freedman of his named Asiaticus, with whom he had had a stormy affair when Asiaticus was a young slave of his.

VESPASIAN

[No reports of homosexual activities.]

TITUS

Dio also mentions Domitian’s affair with Earinos, adding that the emperor’s brother and predecessor Titus had shared his tastes for eunuchs.

DOMITIAN

Statius imagines Venus proclaiming that Domitian’s beloved eunuch, Earinos, will surpass in his beauty some legendarily gorgeous young men: Endymion, Attis, Narcissus, and Hylas—the first two of whom were loved by goddesses.

NERVA

It is often insisted that Domitian was sexually abused by his eventual successor, the Emperor Nerva.

TRAJAN

Trajan kept delicati, and this detail is dropped in such a way as to suggest that this was a standard feature of the imperial household.

HADRIAN

Hadrian appears to have preferred the company of men and homosexual relations. The great love of his life, Antinous, was a young man from Bithynia.

ANTONINUS PIUS

[No reports of homosexual activities.]

Mount Vesuvius (Naples, Italy) aka one of the most dangerous volcanoes of the world. Few facts:

In 73 BC, the volcano was the site of the battle between the escaped slaves/gladiators led by Spartacus and the roman militia led by Praetor Gaius Claudius Glaber (Battle of Mount Vesuvius).

The giant crater at the top of Vesuvius was formed by the disastrous eruption of 79 AD that buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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CINÉ CINÉMA #cineserie #cinécinéma SPARTACUS SYNOPSIS Le sang des gladiateurs En 75 av. J.-C, un Thrace au nom encore inconnu, est trahi par les Romains et arraché à la femme qu’il aime... Après avoir fui le ludus et tué Batiatus, les gladiateurs sèment la terreur dans la République romaine... La guerre des damnés Six mois après la victoire de Spartacus contre Gaïus Claudius Glaber, 30 000 hommes ont rejoint la rébellion. DÉTAILS 2010 - 2013 / 42min / Drame, Guerre, Historique De Steven S. DeKnight Avec Liam McIntyre, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah Nationalité U.S.A. Chaîne d'origine Starz https://youtu.be/WSWtCLBrrAk CRITIQUES Depuis Gladiator (2000), on n’avait rien vu de notable qui mette en images la vie des gladiateurs. Y a-t-il même eu un autre péplum de qualité ? Spartacus, c’est un peu la suite de Gladiator, un homme libre qui devient esclave, puis gladiateur, dont la femme est assassinée par un Romain, puis qui devient un champion de l’arène, défie Rome et à la fin (attention, spoiler) meurt en ayant apporté un peu plus de liberté au peuple. Contrairement à de nombreuses productions américaines comme Troie, il y a un effort pour ne pas trop trahir la réalité historique. Les leaders de la série, Crixus, Spartacus et Oenomaüs ont réellement été les meneurs de la troisième guerre servile. Certains détails changent, comme l’origine (numide dans la série, gauloise en réalité) d’Oenomaüs ou la chronologie de certains combats. Cependant, les sources historiques (Appien, Plutarque) ne concordent pas toujours et il n’est pas facile de savoir de quelle façon les faits se sont déroulés de façon exacte. Mais il y a clairement dans Spartacus un effort de s’inspirer de ces sources, comme le montrent par exemple le recours à la pratique de la « décimation » (châtiment consistant dans la Rome antique en l’exécution d’un soldat sur dix) par Marcus Crassus ou l’organisation par Spartacus de combats semblables aux combats de l’arène, pour que les romains y perdent leurs vies. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIhiE6sSZC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Oh my. THIS is magnificent. And Darken Rahl coming out of the water....whew!!!

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Viva Bianca as Ilithyia and Craig Parker Claudius Glaber in “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” (2010) (x)

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