... oh. Sorry. [He grimaces in an apologetic way -- of course he knew Spartacus would die, but he didn't exactly want to start with that in case this guy hadn't yet experienced it.]
And, uh, yeah? I mean, I'm pretty sure most people at least recognize the name, he was leading the Third Servile War and he's pretty much like one of the symbols for oppressed people fighting for their rights against rich slave-owning dicks, or at least the rebellion is a symbol for that, and a lot of philosophers and revolutionaries later on have said Spartacus is like their hero, sort of. [Like Karl Marx but he can't exactly namedrop him here because the name would mean absolutely nothing to you.]