This remains unknown to Batiatus, though he and the two of them eventually begin to engage in wild threesomes as the house's successes mount. When Tullius murders Gaia after an orgy in the villa, Titus Batiatus , her father-in-law, decides that Batiatus must divorce Lucretia; if not, both will go to live in the streets.
Distraught at Gaia's death, Lucretia begins to don her friend's distinctive red wigs in memory. After a vicious argument with her husband, Lucretia realizes that her failure to produce an heir is the primary danger to her marriage. In an act to save it, she breaks her long-standing qualms, and takes Crixus as a partner, instructing him to impregnate her.
During the act, she still. Out of rage for the mistreatment of her husband and regarding Gaia's death, Lucretia murders Titus by. Titus 's death by Lucretia. To her dismay, her plot also takes the life of her trusted body servant, Melitta , who unknowingly drinks the poisoned wine.
As her husband murders Tullius to avenge his father, Lucretia returns the house to order, promoting her servant Naevia to the position once held by Melitta; in exchange, Naevia is to remain a virgin. After the sale of Spartacus to her husband , Lucretia makes friends with the wife of Legatus Glaber , Ilithyia , who arranges an appointment with a priestess of Juno to aid Lucretia's problem with fertility. During the consultation,. Lucretia with the Priestess of Juno.
With her husband gone on business, and given little time before the potion's effects wear off, she calls Crixus , her lover, to her side. However, her plans fall short when he requests a "forgo a night of pleasure" in order to remain primed for his upcoming fight with Theokoles ; unknown to Lucretia, he declines due to his growing feelings for Naevia.
While distraught, Lucretia does eventually conceive and credits Crixus as the father. With Ilithyia's connections, Lucretia soon makes acquaintance with a wealthy Roman, Licinia , cousin to Marcus Lucinius Crassus , one of the richest men in Rome. Licinia is attracted to Spartacus, and wishes to have sex with him. Ilithyia soon deduces Licinia's intentions, and wishes to bed Crixus. Enamored with Crixus, Lucretia is. Batiatus, however, demands that she honor both Romans' requests, an.
Spartacus and Ilithyia making love because of Lucretia. Knowing of her and Spartacus' mutual hatred with one another, Lucretia deliberately switches Crixus to Spartacus without Ilithyia's knowledge.
She then intentionally walks in on them with Licinia at her side; she exposes the truth, much to Ilithyia's horror. Meanwhile, Licinia is delighted of the affair and laughs at her. Anguished, Ilithyia kills her in a savage frenzy. Although her plan unintentionally ends in Licinia 's murder, Lucretia remedies the situation by offering Ilithyia protection, but in return for favors. Licinia's body, in the meantime, is dismembered and hidden for an undisclosed amount of time.
When Glaber arrives to discuss Batiatus' request for patronage, the visit goes bad as Crixus attacks Ashur for sleeping with Naevia. Condemning Batiatus for his lack of control over his slaves, Glaber prepares to leave for Rome.
Lucretia, however, plays her ultimate card; she and her husband produce Licinia's severed hand, and threaten to expose both Glaber and Ilithyia for the murder if patronage is not granted.
Outraged at his wife's crime, Glaber grants patronage reluctantly and leaves Ilithyia behind within The House of Batiatus. In Crixus' assault, Ashur discloses the truth of his and Naevia's relationship.
In response, Lucreti. As a final. Lucretia beating and cursing Naevia for her betrayal. As Crixus is whipped publicly before the gladiators, Batiatus reveals to Lucretia of his knowledge of her and the gladiator, and commands her to end the affair. On the evening before Crixus' upcoming death match with Spartacus, Lucretia approaches him and offers him one last chance to reconcile with her; she reveals she is pregnant and he is the father.
Crixus doesn't acknowledge the child as his, as his heart still lies with Naevia. When the gladiators launch an armed rebellion against the House, Crixus corners Lucretia and demands furiously the whereabouts of Naevia. When Lucretia tries to bargain with him, he stabs her in the abdomen, badly wounding her and killing her unborn child.
Lucretia stabbed by Crixus and left to die with Batiatus. Later, she staggers to where Batiatus is, surrounded by all of the gladiators. As she collapses, her husband runs to her, but is stopped by Spartacus. Lucretia watches helplessly as the gladiator slices Batiatus' throat, killing him. The gladiators and slaves leave her in the villa for dead, staring at the corpse of her husband. In order to be closer to Spartacus and his rebel slaves, Glaber and Ilithyia take up residence in Batiatus' ludus.
There, they discover Lucretia, dirty, disheveled, and seemingly mad after spending six weeks in the ludus. Delusional, Lucretia appears to have no memory of the events after Ilithyia's arrival in Blood and Sand.
Horrified at her survival, Ilithyia wishes to dispose of Lucretia, ridding evidence and memory of her murder of Licinia. Glaber, however, has other plans; he orders his wife to have Lucretia cleaned and made presentable.
Glaber wishes to display her to the people as a phenomenal—even prophetic—gift from the gods as it is a miracle she survived the slaughter.
Meanwhile, Lucretia soon takes note of Ilithyia's pregnancy and congratulates her. Lucretia joins Glaber and Ilithyia in the marketplace and is presented to the public. Aurelia is later brought forth, bloodied and near death, as an example to Spartacus and any other slaves who wish to join him. There was really no way to put her into that Roman camp. And we had a brief discussion about what if she ended up in the rebel camp? So it was with much trepidation that we decided that it was best for the story that we wrap that up her character.
It also felt like because Ilithyia was so intimately tied to Lucretia that both their storylines should end together. Oh, yeah. She is dead. She had no place in the Roman side with Crassus and Caesar chasing Spartacus around the country. So, again, it felt like her character had run her course and should be wrapped up with Lucretia.
It seems like every season we make it a different show. So we had those holdovers from Blood and Sand and Gods of the Arena.
But moving forward, we move away from that area, so there is no more Ludus, there is no more Capua. It is very much Crassus along with the aid of Caesar going after Spartacus and following some of those events that happened in history.
The scope of it, again, multiplies many times as Crassus battles Spartacus across the country. It's quite a jarring departure from this once-close relationship - which was even sexual on occasion. It seemed implied that Lucretia met her end in the wake of the bloody gladiator raid inside the villa. After all, she'd been brutally skewed by a blade, and presumably spent several weeks at the scene when she's finally discovered by Glaber and Ilithyia. As it happens, the original plan was to end her story here - but series creator Steven S.
DeKnight decided to include her in the second season. On a meta-level, this explains the shocking reveal that she managed to survive the ravenous gladiators - who were clearly out for blood. But from a narrative sense, many found it somewhat implausible that she made it through.
Even stranger is that she ended up with amnesia following this slaughter. One would think this traumatic event would be vividly etched in her mind.
As Titus is keen on reminding her, Lucretia is of lower birth and social standing compared to himself and his son. According to the laws of Ancient Rome , though, a legitimate marriage would have required both parties to be of the same class ranking. This is true whether the subjects were the ruling class Patricians or free Roman citizens Plebians.
It would seem, then, that either the showrunners took some minor creative liberties or their marriage was illegitimate. While fans were happy to see this memorable antagonist return for season two, known as Vengeance, some felt Lucretia's presence felt a bit forced or isolated from the rest of the narrative. She's clearly been traumatized and struggles to recall the slaughter in her villa, existing as a tragic shell of her former self.
She spends much of the season as little more than a whisperer to Ilithyia, who secretly wishes her gone anyway. The dynamic has an air of aimlessness - at least until her grim motives are revealed in the season finale.
Near the end of season one, Ilithyia expresses a desire to lay with Crixus, which is, of course, an issue for Lucretia.
Her response is a calculated plot to sabotage her and get her to lay with Spartacus instead. After all, participants wear masks at these events, so she wouldn't notice. But in a questionable move, she leads Ilithyia's friend Licinia - who was scheduled to lay with the busy gladiator at the same time - towards the two in bed. Things spiral out of control, as Licinia's mocking laugher drives Ilithyia into a rage, spurring her to kill her.
Lucretia promises to keep this a secret - provided she does what she says.
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