Just watched the first episode of Starz Spartacus. Not in the same league as HBO Rome. But, hey, there’s plenty of gratuitous sex and violence.
That might be worth a look though. Since you bring it up, that jostles some atrophied part of the noggin and it seems to me that there was a made-for-TV version done around 1970 or '71, although I'm sure I didn't watch it, just heard how cool it was from some of my classmates.