At the opening of the film we learn that Spartacus has been a slave since he was 13 years old. Sold by his parents to work in a salt mine. He’s grown into a strong and defiant man.... At the opening of the film we learn that Spartacus has been a slave since he was 13 years old. Sold by his parents to work in a salt mine. He’s grown into a strong and defiant man. A Roman, Batiatus arrives at the salt mines after an eleven-day journey in order to purchase slaves to be trained as gladiators at his school. Spartacus is one of the slaves he buys. At the school Spartacus learns how to fight as a gladiator. But Batiatus is training the men in order to sell them off. While enslaved in this training center Spartacus is introduced to Varinia, a beautiful slave woman who he is meant to sleep with but he won’t. He’s never been with a woman. He sees her time and again and begins to fall in love with her. Marcellus, a former slave who’s won his freedom as a gladiator now trains the slaves and when he sees that Spartacus won’t sleep with her he gives her to another man to have. Once Spartacus has been trained a high-ranking Roman official, Crassus arrives at the training center with his wife, sister, and brother-in-law to witness fights to the death. He pays handsomely for the lives of the men as Batiatus does not normally allow fights at the training center. During his fight Spartacus' opponent, Draba has his trident to Spartacus' throat ready to kill him when he turns his weapon on the Romans taking pleasure in their deaths. He throws his trident at them and begins to scale the wall to kill them when he is hit with a spear then finished off by Crassus' knife. He said he would die before he killed another slave. At this point Varinia and Spartacus are in love, and he learns that Crassus has purchased her to be his slave. When he hears of this he kills Marcellus in the mess hall and the slaves revolt against the guards killing them all. Crassus and his people along with Batiatus escape to Rome. Spartacus is able to convince the slaves to turn their rage towards fighting the Romans and ending the torment of slavery. They begin to ride out from the burning training center and on the road Spartacus finds Varinia who has been left behind by Crassus. Read more