In Popular Culture
- Oenomaus appears as a character in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus.
- Oenomaus is portrayed by Peter Mensah in the Starz television series Spartacus. At first, he is known simply by the title of "Doctore" (which means 'teacher') and is the trainer of gladiators for Batiatus' ludus. In the series, the character is re-imagined as an African, rather than a Gaul, and dies in the battle at Vesuvius.
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