Draba (gladiator)

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Draba was an Ethiopian, who was enslaved by the Romans, and sent to the great and popular Gladitorial School of Capua, and a friend of Spartacus, Crixus and numerous other famed gladiators. When Marcus Licinius Crassus came with his friend Lucius and his wife Helena to see a private game, but paid handsomely for a fight to the death. That day, David, the only Jew in the camp, fought and won against a Thracian. Then Spartacus, a Thracian, faced Draba, and when Draba was winning, refused to live like an animal, but die like a man, and attacked the Romans in the seating area. He was killed by Cinna, the trainer and famed warrior, and the Third Servile War began when Spartacus led the gladiators and thousands of others to rebellion and freedom.