Spartacus: House of Ashur is about to completely revise the history of the Starz TV series which spawned it, by retconning the story of a key character in the original show. As a result, this latest series will inevitably have to retcon the death of Spartacus himself, too.

The fourth season of Spartacus , 2013’s War of the Damned , saw the show’s title character finally succumb to his fate, following a victory over the Roman general Crassus in one-to-one combat. This victory proved to be short-lived, as the leader of Ancient Rome’s most famous slave revolt was promptly speared by multiple Roman soldiers, and later died from his wounds.

It’s clear that this TV battle scenes isn’t historically accurate in its depiction of how Spartacus died, not least because there’s no record o

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