Finally, although Dio states that Crassus was voted a Triumph in Rome by the Senate, there is no evidence in inscriptions of that year ( 27 BC ) that it was actually celebrated.

* Third Servile War ends ; Slave uprising under leadership of Spartacus is crushed by a Roman army under Marcus Licinius Crassus.

Instead of assuming the consulship, Crassus is accused of planning to become dictator and intending to name Caesar magister equitum.

Amassing an enormous fortune during his life, Crassus is considered the wealthiest man in Roman history, and among the richest men in all history.

Crassus is said to have made part of his money from proscriptions, notably the proscription of one man whose name was not initially on the list of those proscribed but was added by Crassus who coveted the man's fortune.

* Marcus Licinius Crassus is a major character in the 1956 Alfred Duggan novel, Winter Quarters.

The second half of the novel is related by its Gallic narrator from within the ranks of Crassus ' doomed army en route to do battle with Parthia.

* Marcus Licinius Crassus is a principal character in the 1960 film Spartacus, played by actor Laurence Olivier.

* Marcus Crassus, along with Palene, is one of the two narrators in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus.

* Marcus Licinius Crassus is a principal character in the 2004 TV film, Spartacus, played by actor Angus Macfadyen.

* Crassus is a major character in the novels Fortune's Favourites and Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough.

* Crassus is a major character in the 1992 novel Arms of Nemesis by Steven Saylor.

* In David Drake's Ranks of Bronze, the Lost Legion is the major participant, although Crassus himself has been killed before the book begins.

* Crassus is a major character in Conn Iggulden's Emperor series

Crassus is depicted as a vain man with poor military judgement.

* Crassus appears in a third season episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, where he is beheaded in the Colosseum.

His partner is Marcus Licinius Crassus the Younger.

* Marcus Licinius Crassus campaigns successfully in the Balkans, killing the king of the Bastarnae with his own hand, but is denied the right to dedicate the spolia opima by Octavian.

* Aristonicus of Pergamon leads an uprising against Rome, and consul Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianius is killed in the fighting.

* Publius Licinius Crassus Dives is elected " pontifex maximus " over more distinguished candidates, despite never having held any major offices.

The first Decemviri, composed entirely of patricians is led by consuls Appius Claudius Crassus and Titus Genucius Augurinus.

The whole affair is likely to have been a political move, engineered by Gaius Julius Caesar, his object being to make the popularis leaders the rulers of the state, Marcus Licinius Crassus, in order to embarrass Pompey, or even Pompey himself, to fulfill his obligation to provide land for the veterans of the Mithridatic Wars.

Appius Claudius Crassus is said to have made an unjust decision which would have forced a young woman named Verginia into prostitution, prompting her father to kill her.

Crassus attacked Parthia not only because of its great source of riches, but because of a desire to match the military victories of his two major rivals, Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar.

A Roman nobilis of the patrician gens Claudia, and a senator of " bold and extreme " character, he became a major, if disruptive, force in Roman politics during the rise of the First Triumvirate of Pompey, Crassus and Caesar ( 60 – 53 BC ).

Other major historical figures who appear and play prominent parts in the series include Mithridates VI of Pontus, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Publius Rutilius Rufus, Quintus Sertorius, Marcus Livius Drusus, Jugurtha of Numidia, Spartacus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, Marcus Porcius Cato, Publius Clodius, Titus Annius Milo, Vercingetorix, Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Antonius, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Caesarion and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

After Miracles, Angus acted as Marcus Crassus in a more historically accurate version of Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus, the character of Bill in " The Pleasure Drivers ", and the lead in the dramatic film " The Virgin of Juarez " ( 2006 ).

The novel follows two fictional Gallic nobles who join Julius Caesar's cavalry then find their way into the service of Marcus ' son, Publius Licinius Crassus, in Gaul.

* The Bow of Heaven ( 2011 ) by Andrew Levkoff, a novel of events leading up to the infamous battle of Carrhae, and the triumvir responsible for one of the greatest defeats ever suffered by Republican Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus.

The work was first published in a Latin translation by Junius Paulus Crassus ( Giunio Paolo Grassi ), Venice 1552, together with Rufus Ephesius.

The following year ( 28 BC ), Crassus marched on Genucla.

Crassus ' homonymous grandfather, M. Licinius Crassus ( praetor c. 126 BC ), was facetiously given the Greek nickname Agelastus ( the grim ) by his contemporary Gaius Lucilius, the famous inventor of Roman satire, who asserted that he smiled once in his whole life.

The latter's brother C. Licinius Crassus ( consul 168 BC ) produced the third line of Licinia Crassi of the period, the most famous of whom was L. Licinius Crassus the orator ( consul 95 BC ), the greatest Roman orator before Cicero and the latter's childhood hero and model.

Crassus was honored only with an ovation ( less than a triumph ), even though the danger to Rome and the destruction to Roman lives and property merited much more.

In 65 BC, Crassus was elected censor with another conservative Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( Capitolinus ), himself son of a consul.

Caesar's mediation between Crassus and Pompey led to the creation of the coalition between Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar ( by now consul ), known as the First Triumvirate in 60 BC.

Caesar contrived to reconcile the two men, and then combined their clout with his own to have himself elected consul in 59 BC ; he and Crassus were already friends ( modern consensus as to the beginning of the friendship to be as early as 65 where a young Caesar supported Crassus's proposal to make Egypt tributary to Rome ), and he solidified his alliance with Pompey by giving him his own daughter, Julia, in marriage.

* Licinia ( flourished 1st century BC ), who was supposedly courted by her kinsman, the so-called " triumvir " Marcus Licinius Crassus, who in fact wanted her property.

The hyper-wealthy general and politician of the late Roman Republic, Crassus ( who fought in the war to defeat Spartacus ), was said by Pliny the Elder to have had ' estates worth 200 million sesterces '.

After the Catilinian conspiracy, Cato turned all his political skills to oppose the designs of Caesar and his triumvirate allies ( Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus ), who had among them held the reins of power in a finely balanced near-monopoly.

* Arms of Nemesis ( 1992 ), featuring Crassus, is set during the slave revolt of Spartacus in 72 BC.

Cicero ( whose speech has been preserved ), Pompey and Crassus all spoke on his behalf, and he was acquitted.

In his later years, he married a relative, Caecilia Pilea / Pilia ( ca 75 BC – 46 BC ), daughter of Pileus / Pilius and a maternal granddaughter of the Triumvir, Crassus.

From this time the Bruttians as a people disappear from history: but their country again became the theatre of war during the revolt of Spartacus, who after his first defeats by Crassus, took refuge in the southernmost portion of Bruttium ( called by Plutarch the Rhegian peninsula ), in which the Roman general sought to confine him by drawing lines of intrenchment across the isthmus from sea to sea.

The family-names of the Licinii are Calvus ( with the agnomina Esquilinus and Stolo ), Crassus ( with the agnomen Dives ), Geta, Lucullus, Macer, Murena, Nerva, Sacerdos, and Varus.

Her mother, Caecilia Pilea / Pilia ( bef ca 75 BC – 46 BC ), daughter of Pileus / Pilius, was a maternal granddaughter of Marcus Licinius Crassus, a member of the First Triumvirate.

On the other hand he was politically engaged before and after, attending the packed conferences at Ravenna and Lucca in spring 56 when Julius Caesar patched up the tattered coalition with Crassus and Pompey, and in about summer 55 marrying his younger daughter to Pompeius ' homonymous eldest son Gnaeus Pompeius ( born ca. 79 BC ), thus ensuring his election to the consulate for the following year.

Scupi grew up as colony of legionnaires, mainly veterans of the Legio IIV Claudia in the time of Domitian ( 81-96 AD ), even though several legions of the Crassus ' army of 29-28 BC, may already have been stationed there, before the official imperial command in this area was instituted.

The marriage may have taken place around 95 BC, though the date is pure supposition by scholars, based on the known political alliance between the two fathers ( Crassus and Gaius Marius ), the fact that men could not marry before they turned 14, but that leading families tended to marry early to cement alliances.