which asks: What if Ashur (
Nick Tarabay) hadn't died on Mount Vesuvius at the end of
Spartacus: Vengeance?
And what if he had been gifted the gladiator school once owned by
Batiatusin return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and
putting an end to the slave rebellion? Beside
Lucy Lawless who

will return later this Autumn as Lucretia in flashbacks, the cast will have
Graham McTavish, who
takes a leading role alongside Tarabay as Korris, Ashur's Doctore, the
lead trainer of the gladiators in the Ludus, an ex-gladiator who won his
freedom in the arena. There are also
Tenika Davis (as Achillia, a
gladiatrix who's determined to surpass her male counterparts and win
her freedom),
Jamaica Vaughan (as Hilara, an elevated house slave who's
in love with Ashur),
Ivana Baquero (as Messia, a house slave in love with Hilara)
, Jordi Webber,
(as Tarchon, a brash gladiator),
Claudia Black (as Cossutia, a
politician plotting Ashur's downfall),
India Shaw-Smith (as Viridia,

Cossutia’s daughter) and
Leigh Gill (as Satyrus, the leader of the Brothers Ferox, which are the gladiators from a rival Ludus. ).
Jackson Gallagher
will appear as Caesar alongside
Dan Hamill as Celadus,
Andrew McFarlane as Gabinius, JaimeSlater as Cornelia,
Simon Arblaster as

Proculus,
Arlo Gibson as Opiter, Cameron Rhodes as Uvidus,
Evander Brown as Ephesius,
Graham Vincent as Hedylus,
Louis Hunter as

Erato, Donald Ross as Salvius, and
Duane Wichman Evans as Dacus! The series will have ten episodes and will also stream on
Stan in Australia.