Comments on: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena -Part II https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/06/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/ He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Wed, 03 Apr 2019 04:25:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Max Cantor https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/06/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-191 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:18:04 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/06/09/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-191 Hypergamy is on steroids with the Roman noble class women. It's almost as if these Roman women are millennials.

You have Ilithyia, who is married to Glaber, taking a shot at the other praetor, Varinius. The crazed hoe wants to dissolve her marriage because Varinius apparently has more influence than Glaber does. (she fails only because her father felled at the attack on the arena, unable to dissolve her marriage). BTW, he was against it. Lucretia "took him under her thighs" to convince him otherwise.

Seppia wants Varinius, too. She is the youngest and possibly most beautiful of the Roman women. When she fails to get Varinius, and while Glaber is alone, his wife captured by Gannicus…Seppia gets to work on Glaber. And work she does.

These women, if they're not trying to get the best men on the lot, they're not doing anything.

Now, the "sleeping with the gardener/fitness instructor" was going on during those times as well…the gardener being the slave gladiators. Roman women had to have some of those goods. It wasn't "beneath" them. AFBB.

]]> By: Max Cantor https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/06/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-284 Sun, 10 Jun 2018 20:29:36 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/06/09/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-284 He, he, I knew that was coming.

On Marcus Crassus, he should have known better about his son.

Harvey Specter (Suits) got it here in this video, where he talks about the father's bully.

Harvey: "It was his God damned job to know".

]]> By: Rick https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/06/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-285 Sun, 10 Jun 2018 20:26:39 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/06/09/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-285 Good description of this conflict between father and son.

What about women's hypergamy in the series, can you write something on it ?

]]> By: Max Cantor https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/06/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-286 Sun, 10 Jun 2018 04:17:36 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/06/09/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-286 Perhaps. Crassus wanted, and orchestrated, a change in his son. That maturity streak.

Did he think having Julius Caesar around, a much more experienced man, would be of no consequences ?

He casted the die.

Don't complain at the disastrous end.

]]> By: Lynn https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/06/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-287 Sun, 10 Jun 2018 04:08:02 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/06/09/spartacus-gods-of-the-arena-part-ii/#comment-287 With Crassus. you have classic willful blindness. Agreed ?

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