User blog comment:The Milkman/Share Your Shepard's Story/@comment-4950455-20120713050413/@comment-899316-20120715172019

People often use historical names when naming characters in any game. In KotOR, my main character was named Brutus O'Hanahan. It makes even more sense for Mass Effect, given turian names and their similarities to the names of ancient Romans and Greeks. In fact, Spartacus could easily have been named after some turian Spartacus, and not the Thracian gladiator.