 It enjoyed great prosperity, however, due to their growing of spelt, a grain that was put into groats, wine, roses, spices, unguents etc., and also owing to its manufacture, especially of bronze objects, of which both the elder Cato and the elder Pliny speak in the highest terms.Its luxury remained proverbial; and Campania is especially spoken of as the home of gladiatorial combats.From the gladiatorial schools of Campania came Spartacus and his followers in 73 BC.