I've been rewatching the Spartacus TV show on Starz. This time, I'm paying closer attention to the historicity of it and I have two questions. First, in the show there are gladiators and slaves from Gaul, Carthage, Syria, and Celtic tribes. What was the reach of the Republic right before the Third Servile War? Would slaves from these areas be common in the Republic? Secondly, it is often a point in the show that Roman women would want to sleep with the gladiators, were these kind of mistress - gladiator affairs common?