An overview of Corey Booker's Hollywood Spartacus moment,

 Social bonds in Rome had been decaying since the destruction of Carthage a little more than a hundred years earlier, due to the vast wealth that could be gained by plunder and corruption.^[33] These social ills were magnified by rivalry between Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and confederates like Sextus Pompey, all jockeying for a bigger share of the spoils. One modern scholar has counted a dozen civil wars in the hundred years leading up to 31 BC, including the Spartacus rebellion, eight years before Horace's birth.^[34] As the heirs to Hellenistic culture, Horace and his fellow Romans were not well prepared to deal with these problems:
Mr Booker I am afraid has been appropriated by Hollywood view of Spartacus