73 B.C: Spartacus' Rebellion

Sulla is dead. The Roman Republic has been restored and is once again a democracy, but is increasingly unstable, as it's citizens look to the old dictator's example and plot to seize power for themselves. Power is strongly contested by two political rivals: Crassus, the richest man in the known world, and Pompey, the Republic's most famous general. Against this backdrop, a Thracian gladiator named Spartacus escapes from captivity with a small band of fighters and begins recruiting from Italy's vast population to create an army, starting a rebellion that would shake Roman society to its core. A young, destitute noble has recently returned to Rome from his exile under Sulla, armed with a pathetic amount of money and a passion for having sex with other men's wives. His name is Julius Caesar.