I suspect it’s a bit more than that, however, perhaps she’s playing a long-game to gain power over everyone, especially Asher. Revenge on Ilithyia, perhaps, since she knows that the other woman locked the doors of the ludus during the massacre and thus condemned those inside to death. It’s hard to tell what her eventual goal might be right now but she’s been manipulating several men in her attempt to gain something. She has very little room for error and knows it. But that power is a mirage that might soon fade if any of her prophecies go wrong. Initially, this season, Lucretia gained some moral power by virtue of her being a “miraculous” survivor of the attack by Spartacus and the other rebels that killed everyone at her ludus (gladiator home). Instead, they try to exchange one man who’s holding them back for another, seen as a better choice. They know it but they don’t conceive of trying to become completely independent.

Unlike Mira, they’re dependent on men for their power and thus tend to be less free than Mira. Instead of giving up, however, she asks Crixus to “teach” her how to become a full person again with control of her destiny.Īnd then there are the Roman women, the frenemies, Lucretia and Ilithyia. She’s been raped, abused, beaten and had her spirit broken so much that she cannot get past it to make love to the man who risked all to save her, Crixus. Naevia hasn’t had as much of an impact, given she’s been off-stage and then reduced to a rescue victim but “The Chosen Path,” brought her story into full focus.

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