Clips are shown from the movie Spartacus (1960). Lucy Lawless would go on to play Lucretia in Spartacus (2010) and Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011).
The producers saved a lot of money on this episode, the first "clip show" in the Xenaverse. At least half the program consists of clips from previous episodes with no spectacular visual effects, Perhaps the money saved was to pay royalties for the scenes from Spartacus (1960) and the Steve Reeves films. This is also the first Gabrielle-centric episode with Xena appearing only at the very beginning and end.
The famous "I am Spartacus" scene is used from the film Spartacus (1960). In The Black Wolf (1996), the scene was re-enacted with multiple people claiming to be "The Black Wolf."