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.

* 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 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.

n. Crassus, tribunus militum consulari potestate in 424 BC, said by Livius to have been violently opposed to the plebeians and their tribunes.

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 '.

* Marcus Licinius P. f. P. n. Crassus Agelastus, grandfather of the triumvir, he was said to have obtained his surname because he never laughed.

A great number of Jews had reached Sicily after Pompey's 63 BC sacking of Jerusalem, and additionally by Roman Proconsul Crassus, who is traditionally said to have sold more than 30, 000 Jewish slaves on the island.

However, several legions from the Roman province of Macedonia of Crassus ' army may already have been stationed in there around 29-28 BC, before the official imperial command was instituted.

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.

At the end of their joint consular year, Crassus would have the influential and lucrative governorship of Syria, and use this as a base to conquer Parthia.

Crassus would have certainly been appointed a commissioner himself, as would have been Gaius Antonius Hybrida cos. 63 BC.

f. C. n. Crassus Rufus, the eldest son of Appius Claudius Caecus, he was consul in 268 BC, and the last of the Claudii known to have borne the surname Crassus.

Of Sulpicius as an orator, Cicero says ( Brutus, 55 ): " He was by far the most dignified of all the orators I have heard, and, so to speak, the most tragic ; his voice was loud, but at the same time sweet and clear ; his gestures were full of grace ; his language was rapid and voluble, but not redundant or diffuse ; he tried to imitate Crassus, but lacked his charm.

The Spanish provinces would go to Pompeius ; Crassus arranged to have Syria, with the transparent intention of going to war with Parthia.

It may have been retroactively ascribed to a number of earlier members of the family ; it was most famous as the surname of Marcus Licinius Crassus, the triumvir, but it is not even certain that it was used by members of his immediate family before him.

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.

Publius Mucius Scaevola and Quintus Mucius Scaevola, consul in 174 BC, are believed to have been his sons, and the brothers Publius Mucius Scaevola and Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus, both becoming Pontifex Maximus, were therefore his grandsons by Publius, while Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur was his grandson by Quintus.

Interlocutors, primarily Crassus and Antonius, posit that the ideal orator: needs a wealth of knowledge ( Crassus ); would have the rhetorical ability to “ first win people over, second, to instruct them, and third, to stir their feelings ” ( Antonius ; similar to Aristotle ’ s ethos, logos, pathos ); is a master of invention, style ( includes correct Latin, clarity, distinction, and appropriateness ) and eloquence ; uses natural ability and have a willingness to imitate a great teacher for the sake of effectually perfecting the natural ability and not for the cloning of the teacher.

Caesar was already in Crassus ' political debt, but he also made overtures to Pompey.

On the night of a heavy snowstorm, they sneaked through Crassus ' lines and made a bridge of dirt and tree branches over the ditch, thus escaping.

It wasn't until the rule of Octavian, when Marcus Licinius Crassus, the grandson of the Caesarian Triumvir and then proconsul of Macedonia, finally stabilized the region with a campaign beginning in 29 BC Moesia was formally organized into a province some time before 6 AD, when the first mention of its governor, Caecina Severus, is made.

This was only a relative poverty, but it proves the integrity of his father, who obviously did not profit much, if at all, from the proscription period when less scrupulous characters, most notoriously Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gaius Curio pater, made enormous fortunes from the confiscated properties of Sulla's Marian victims.

Marching to Rome, he made camp at the Alban Hills, accompanied by Publius Licinius Crassus.