Starz has set December 5 as the two-episode premiere of Spartacus : House of Ashur . The history-bending gladiator drama will drop individual new episodes on Fridays via the network’s app and linear channel. New photos can be found below.

In the next chapter of the Spartacus universe from Steven S. DeKnight, the question is posed: What if Ashur (Nick E. Tarabay) had lived and the Romans rewarded his treachery with the gladiator school where he once bled?

Welcome to the House of Ashur. No longer a slave, Ashur has clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him. But ruling a band of merciless gladiators is child’s play compared to surviving the savage world of Roman politics — a cutthroat game in which betrayal isn’t a sin, it’s currency. He flips tradition on its

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