The Roman Empire Season 2 on Netflix is great, but it's also taking some serious liberties with accepted truth vs. legend. That's the nature of TV, I guess.
spoilers for Spartacus TV series
actually no he wasn't a noble. He was a rival lanista in Season 2. The one who ended up bricked into the arena.
It's also wild to see actors from the Spartacus series play different Roman characters--the Spartacus German turncoat is Caesar, and the guy who plays Pompeii was a Roman noble in Spartacus.