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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Ashur uses the biblical metaphor "forbidden fruit" in regards to Naevia. He also fulfills many stereotypes of the GreedyJew, being a duplicitous money-grubber who is physically inferior to the other gladiators. Ashur comes from Syria, and some Syrians were Jews.

* AwfulWeddedLife: In ''Vengeance'' her marriage to Glaber becomes increasingly unhappy to the point that she plots to divorce him and marry Varinius. Unfortunately, Glaber finds out, quickly nixes that plan and then proceeds to make her life [[FromBadToWorse nigh-unbearable]]. He's so awful to her that some viewers actually found themselves feeling ''sorry'' for Ilithyia even though she's generally horrid and brought some of it on herself.

* BerserkButton: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Do not. Laugh. At Ilithyia]]. With her, sure. '''NEVER AT HER.'''

* CanonForeigner / NamedByTheAdaptation: Since nothing is know about the historical Glaber.

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: She's a blonde and considered highly attractive by many men (and possibly by Lucretia as well).
* EatingTheEyeCandy: She really likes staring at the gladiators muscular bodies. Particularly Crixus when hes training or exercising.
* FatalFlaw: Her self-centred impulsivity. She tends to do whatever the hell she wants, whenever she wants it, with little thought to the long-term consequences both to herself and others. This becomes highly detrrimental to her either because she pisses off the wrong people, or her actions have unanticipated negative outcomes (or both).

* LadyMacbeth: Tries to be this to her husband, to [[ZigZagged mixed success]]. She certainly holds some degree of influence over Glaber, but often times her own agenda isn't what's best for him. After a couple times of this backfiring, things fall apart entirely and Ilithyia loses any and all control over her husband. It does not go well for her.
* LipstickLesbian: She's a bisexual (but [[ButNotTooBi never actually has sex with a woman onscreen]], despite bedding more than one man, who dresses in the very feminine style of a proper Roman noblewoman.

* NightmareFetishist: She's pretty turned-on by the violence gladiators inflict within the arena.

* PrivilegeMakesYouEvil: The root cause of her selfish sense of entitlement and lack of empathy is the fact she was raised by a wealthy and powerful father, who let her have anything she wanted and never facing negative consequences for her actions.

* RichBitch: She's the spoiled daughter of a wealthy and influential senator. She starts out being more flaky, petty, emotional, and self-involved brat, but eventually grows into a truly sadistic, selfish young woman who is so obsessed with her comfort and position that she will do ''anything'' to further herself.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Frequently naked, loves sex, and positively gleeful about it at all times.

* UnwantedSpouse: Becomes this to Glaber in ''Vengeance''. She'd already tested his patience to the limit at the end of ''Blood and Sand'' after he finds out [[spoiler: she murdered Licinia, thus forcing him to acquiese to Batiatus and Lucretia's demands to keep it quiet]], but he turns against her fully over the course of the second season, to the point that he doesn't even care all that much about [[spoiler: the rebels kidnapping her and pretty much gives her up for dead (which rather ruins Spartacus' plan to use her as leverage to get weapons)]]. He also goes out of his way to make her life miserable [[spoiler: and cheats on her with Seppia]]. In fairness to him, this is mostly after he learns she was plotting with her father to abort her pregnancy and dissolve their marriage to hook up woth his rival instead. By the end of the season, though, they've [[SubvertedTrope more or less made up]].

* WildCard: She over ever consistently looks out for number one and will curry favor eith whoever she believes can give her what she wants. Not even her own husband is safe from her machinations. She also tends to be quite fickle, her goals and desires shifting often. In fact, the rebellion in "Kill Them All" is so successful because she made it so; having the doors locked to trap everyone inside with the vengeful slaves

Glaber is a Roman commander awarded the title of Legatus, and later Praetor. He is married to Senator Albinius's favored daughter, Ilithyia, who both supports her husband's actions politically and emotionally, by personally seeing to it that Glaber's greatest enemy, Spartacus, suffers as much pain as possible. Glaber serves as the main antagonist for the second season of Spartacus, and in the first season is a personal antagonist for Spartacus himself as Glaber enslaved both him and his wife Sura.

* BadassCape: Tends to wear a nice red one, and certainly more than badass enough to pull it off. In addition to being a skilled and ruthless general, Glaber can hold his own in a fight better than most Roman soldiers or gladiators.

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Tells Spartacus that his death will only mean legions will come to hunt and kill Spartacus. Spartacus's response is to [[ShutUpHannibal put a sword through his mouth]].]]

** He also holds disdain or disgust for Cossitius. Whether this because of Cossitius' fondness for rape, or some more personal reason is unknown.

* {{Jerkass}}: Suffice to say, he's not a nice man; it's established early on that he's petty, sadistic, lacking in graditude, and doesn't care who he hurts or screws over to achieve his aims. Even his wife is no exception to his cruelty.

* MrFanservice: Is very well-built, tanned and completely shaved. He is shown naked several times, complete with MaleFrontalNudity.
* NeverMyFault: Continually blames Spartacus for the entire conflict whcih would never have happened in the first place if he had kept his promise to the Thracians (which Sartacus as fighting as for as a militia) and defeated the Getae instead of abanbonding the campaign to march into Greeceto steal the credit of Pompei's victory over the Macedonians. Even with that treachery, Spartacus would never have made Glaber his eternal enemy if Glaber hadn't hunted him done after he escaped with his wife from his now destroyed home village and sold them both to slavery (with a mass gangrape of Sura in the process by his bodyguards) as both people just seeked to escape to another community and rebuild their lives. And then there's the fact it isn't just Spartacus, he blames everybody else including his officers and even other Roman aristocracy for all his mishaps. He continues to deny resonsibility before SSpartacus klls hm and acts like he's the innocent wronged party.

* {{Sadist}}: Glaber clearly gets a thrill out of tormenting others, if his interactions with Spartacus are anything to go by. He also takes pleasure out of murdering his perceived enemies, and has no qualms about having women and children murdered.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Aside from his involvement in the Third Servile War (the official name for Spartacus' rebellion) almost nothing is known about the historical Glaber. Despite rising to the rank of Praetor, he was an ultimately insignificant politician, and historians cite him being dispatched against the rebels as a sign of how little Rome thought of Spartacus. Even his death is unrecorded; while it's mentioned his force was destroyed at Vesuvius, Glaber himself simply drops out of the historical record. Aside from giving him a personal connection to Spartacus, the show's portrayal of Glaber matches up with this pretty well; see DudeWheresMyRespect, above.
* TheSociopath: Overall, Glaber is fixated on gaining power and doesn't care about much else. His love for Ilithyia is only due to her ability to give him a son, and he is constantly back-stabbing allies. He's a pretty low-functioning example, since the higher members of the Roman Republic think very little of him, and he can only get by through murdering his obstacles.

* UnholyMatrimony: With Ilithyia, being something of an evil duo, although the marriage tends to be on the rocks a lot. This becomes most clear in ''Monsters'', where [[spoiler: Glaber and Ilithyia renew their marriage as monsters working to further themselves and destroy their enemies.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Batiatus bends over backwards to accomodate him, in the hopes he will help him with his political ambitions. It's all for nothing as Calavius discourages him from reaching above his station.

* NonActionGuy: He's a physically weak kid who can just run form a fight.
* OhCrap: He looked very nervous (or perhaps suffering a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment) as [[spoiler:Aurelia makes it clear that she knew and loved Varro as Numerius is alone with her, she is armed, and he is not.]].

* DentedIron: By the time Spartacus and Crixus fight him, his body is essentially a mass of scar tissue, and he's been retired for several years. If his fight with Oenomeus in the prequal comic is anything to go by, during his prime he was likely the single most dangerous fighter within series canon.

* ImplacableMan: Being ''skewered'' doesn't even slow him down, and he would've still beaten Spartacus after '''that''' had Crixus not used the suns' rays to blind him.

* NobleDemon: Had Oenomaus dead to rights in their fight before noticing his wife in the crowd. He stopped his assault, offering to let Oenomaus take is sword back up (said sword was sticking out of Theokoles' shoulder at the time) so they could continue on equal footing, only for the match to be declared a draw then and there.

* {{Jerkass}}: "Seal the fucking doors!"

* MsFanservice: She's naked ''a lot''.

* WildCard: She over ever consistently looks out for number one and will curry favor eith whoever she believes can give her what she wants. Not even her own husband is safe from her machinations. She also tends to be quite fickle, her goals and desires shifting often.

* {{Jerkass}} [[spoiler: Laughing at somebody tricked into sex with someone unintended. For the record though, [[KickTheSonOfABitch that somebody was Ilithyia.]]]]

* BadassBaritone: Speaks in this tone of voice and can be badass at times.

* BadassBaritone: What little he spoke was delivered in deep guttural tone.

* {{Troll}}: She really likes giving Lucretia backhanded compliments and reminding her of how much higher her position is to her. Also, since she knew about Lucretias and Crixus affair some of her ealier actions with him, such as haiving him stripped naked as she examines his body in front of Lucretia, as examples of her love of toying with people.

%%* AllWomenAreLustful

%%* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Laughing at Ilithyia.]]

%%* BadassInCharge: Downplayed.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: She wasn't killed because she had sex with someone. She was killed because she laughed at someone (read: Ilithyia) who was [[BedTrick tricked]] into having sex with someone (read: Spartacus) ''she'' was supposed to have sex with.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Batiatus bends over backwards to accomodate him, in the hopes he will help him with his political ambitions. It's all for nothing as Calavius considers this above his station.

* {{Jerkass}}

* SmugSnake

* WidowWoman: [[spoiler: In ''Vengeance''. She never did get over it, which leads to Lucretia committing suicide.]]

* FalseFriend: To Ilithyia in ''Blood and Sand'', only befriending her to gain her husband Glaber's favor. To be fair, Ilithyia's just as nasty to her and in ''Blood and Sand'', Lucretia only puts up with her bullshit for her husband's sake. In ''Vengeance'' she evolves into an obsessive PoisonousFriend.

* PoisonousFriend: To Ilithyia in ''Blood and Sand'' and''Vengeance'', albeit in different ways.
** In 'Blood and Sand'', she's using Ilithyia to advance in position and secure benefits for her husband. Her manipulations and mistreatment of Ilithyia ultimately result in Ilithyia experiencing a StartOfDarkness of her own as she begins retaliating due to her severe mistreatment by Lucretia.
** In ''Vengeance'', her and Ilithyia's friendship is far more genuine, with Lucretia making a real effort to improve their relationship and standing by Ilithyia in the face of trouble. Instead, the venom is directed ''outward'' towards their enemies, as the two women bring out the worst sides of one another. [[spoiler: Lucretia is also eventually revealed to be faking the entire friendship to steal Ilithyia's baby and commit suicide with it]].

* KickTheDog: Take your pick. When he taunts Spartacus over his wife's likely multiple rapes as a slave? Or when he strikes his wife and leaves her to the mercy of [[PoisonousFriend Lucretia and Batiatus.]]

* PoisonousFriend: To Spartacus. He seems to grow genuinely fond of the man, and Spartacus appears to return the feeling. [[spoiler: That fondness doesn't stop him from ordering his wife killed, to maintain his loyalty.]]

* EatingTheEyeCandy: She really likes staring at the gladiators muscular bodies. Particulairly of Crixus,when hes training or exercising.

* BadLiar: Averted most of the time but shes absoultely terrible at hiding her affection and lust for Crixus. So much so that when Batiatius reveals he knew the whole time about her affair he was personally insulted most of all that she thought she had managed to fool him.

* HerHeartWillGoOn: In a pretty dark and twisted way. [[spoiler: After her husband’s death, Lucretia goes to some extraordinary lengths [[VengefulWidow to take down everyone she views as having a role in his demise]], revealing just how much suffering she can take and how far she's willing to go, before finally offing herself in the hopes of being [[TogetherInDeath reunited with her husband]]]].

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: [[VengefulWidow By Varro's wife, Aurelia.]] And ''boy'' did it hurt.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: Occurs during ''Blood and Sand'' in a '''big''' way. [[spoiler: After spending an entire season being used, manipulated, and mistreated by Lucretia, Batiatus, and all of her other "friends" in Capua, Ilithyia finally decides she's had enough of it and, in the season finale, [[KillThemAll locks every single one of them inside the Ludus to be slaughtered by the revolting gladiator.]]]]

* ArchEnemy: To Crixus. Well, he considers Crixus his archenemy. Crixus, while contemptuous of him, doesn't [[SmallNameBigEgo share the feeling]]. Until he finds out that Ashur took Naevia against her will

!!Gaius Claudius Glaber [-(Craig Parker)-]

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* {{Jerkass}}: Though he does have shades of JerkassWoobie, he is generally an unpleasant person, being willing to use and abuse almost anyone to stay on top, seeking revenge on people for petty slights or hurting innocent people along the way and acting like a [[SmugSnake smug]] [[KickTheDog prick]] throughout it all, ''and'' is a rapist to boot.

* StarOfDarkness: ''Gods of the Arena'' serves as one for him.

* Troll: She really likes giving Lucretia backhanded compliments and reminding her of how much higher her position is to her. Also, since she knew about Lucretias and Crixus affair some of her ealier actions with him, such as haiving him stripped naked as she examines his body in front of Lucretia, as examples of her love of toying with people.

* TheVamp: In a scheme to rob Spartacus of his best friend, she charms and is implied to seduce Numerius, who is only ''fifteen''.

* DomesticAbuse: He slaps Ilithyia hard enough to knock her to the floor after learning she [[spoiler: killed Licinia]] and leaves her to the mercy of Batiatus and Lucretia. His increasingly cruel and controlling treatment of her in ''Vengeance'' can also be construed as emotional abuse. Even when she's [[spoiler: kidnapped by Spartacus' forces]] he doesn't seem as concerned about her as one would expect when [[spoiler: his pregnant wife ends up in the clutches of his archenemy]]; he's even willing to gamble with her life for a chance to capture Spartacus, which causes him to realize that Glaber doesn't actually care about Ilithyia]].

* DepravedBisexual: Downplayed. Although Lucretia is definitely bisexual and definitely ''not'' a good person, her bisexuality isn't necessarily directly linked to this. She is shown ordering both her male and female slaves to [[BadBoss perform sexual acts with her (or each other for her pleasure)]], but the one genuine same-sex relationship she had is with [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Gaia]], and their friendship is generally depicted as a [[MoralityPet positive aspect]] of Lucretia's character; her love for her husband is also shown to be genuine and unselfish. The way she treats her slaves is also par for the course with Roman elites in the series.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Gaia. And we mean ''[[GirlOnGirlIsHot romantic]]''. Her relationship with Ilithyia has shades of this too, combined with FoeRomanceSubtext.