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.

* 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 is a major character in Robert Harris's novel " Lustrum " ( published as " Conspirata " in the USA ), the sequel to " Imperium ", which both chronicle the career of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

* 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 ).

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

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.

Ronald Syme points out the similarity of Crassus ' removal from the official record with that of Cornelius Gallus, the contemporary disgraced governor of Egypt, who was recalled by Augustus for assuming inappropriate honours.

The strategic result of Crassus ' campaigns was the permanent annexation of Moesia by Rome.

"; a reference to the scene in the movie Spartacus in which the survivors of Spartacus's army, defeated by Roman legions, are offered leniency by Crassus, if they will identify their leader.

Caesar proposed a law for the redistribution of public lands to the poor, a proposal supported by Pompey, by force of arms if need be, and by Crassus, making the triumvirate public.

Only the year before he had blocked the senatorial award of a triumph to Marcus Licinius Crassus, despite the latter's acclamation in the field as Imperator and his eminent merit by all traditional criteria-barring only full consulship.

Augustus claimed the victory as his own but permitted Crassus a second, listed on the Fasti for 27 BCE, by which time Augustus was abolishing various proconsulates to form his own Imperial provinces.

They joined the Gaulish coalition against Rome in 57 BC, which was suppressed by Crassus.

Crassus rose to political prominence following his defeat of the slave revolt led by Spartacus, sharing the Consulship with his rival Pompey the Great.

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.

Crassus was rising steadily up the cursus honorum, the sequence of offices held by Roman citizens seeking political power, when ordinary Roman politics were interrupted by two events – first, the Third Mithridatic War, and second, the Third Servile War, which was the organized two-year rebellion of Roman slaves under the leadership of Spartacus ( from summer 73 BC to spring 71 BC ).

Eventually, Crassus was sent into battle against Spartacus by the Senate.

When a segment of his army fled from battle, abandoning their weapons, Crassus revived the ancient practice of decimation – i. e., executing one out of every ten men, with the victims selected by drawing lots.

Plutarch reports that " many things horrible and dreadful to see " occurred during the infliction of punishment, which was witnessed by the rest of Crassus ' army.

Afterwards, when Spartacus retreated to the Bruttium peninsula in the southwest of Italy, Crassus tried to pen up his armies by building a ditch and a rampart across an isthmus in Bruttium, " from sea to sea.

Some time later, when the Roman armies led by Pompey and Varro Lucullus were recalled to Italy in support of Crassus, Spartacus decided to fight rather than find himself and his followers trapped between three armies, two of them returning from overseas action.

The six thousand captured slaves were crucified along the Via Appia by Crassus ' orders.