The man selected for the task was Marcus Licinius Crassus, grandson of Crassus the triumvir and an experienced general at 33 years of age, who was appointed proconsul of Macedonia in 29 BC.

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.

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.

Crassus laid siege to fort, but had to enlist the assistance of Rholes, the Getan petty king to dislodge them, for which service Rholes was granted the title of socius et amicus populi Romani (" ally and friend of the Roman people ").

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

Gaius Sosius launched the initial attack from the left wing of the fleet, while Antony's chief lieutenant Publius Canidius Crassus was in command of the triumvir's land forces.

Claudius ' son-in-law Pompeius Magnus was executed for his part in a conspiracy with his father Crassus Frugi.

In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed a political alliance that was to dominate Roman politics for several years.

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

In 53 BC Crassus was killed leading a failed invasion of the east.

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.

Afterwards, the tribunate was restored to its former power during the consulship of Crassus and Pompey.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Bassus and Crassus ( or, less frequently, year 817 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Lentulus ( or, less frequently, year 740 Ab urbe condita ).

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.

Crassus was also denied the rare ( and in his case, technically permissible ) honour of dedicating the spolia opima of this campaign to Jupiter Feretrius.

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

The alliance was re-stabilized at the Lucca Conference in 56 BC, after which Crassus and Pompey again served as Consul.

Following his second Consulship, Crassus was appointed as the Governor of Roman Syria.

Crassus ' campaign was a disastrous failure, resulting in his defeat and death at the Battle of Carrhae.

Marcus Licinius Crassus was the second of three sons born to the eminent senator and vir triumphalis P. Licinius Crassus ( consul 97, censor 89 BC ).

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.

During the fighting, Spartacus attempted to kill Crassus personally, slaughtering his way toward the general's position, but he succeeded only in killing two of the centurions guarding Crassus.

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.

The king of Armenia, Artavazdes II, offered Crassus the aid of nearly forty thousand troops, ten thousand cataphracts and thirty thousand infantrymen, on the condition that Crassus invaded through Armenia so that the king could not only maintain the upkeep of his own troops but also provide a safer route for his men and Crassus '.

Crassus ' death in 53 and the absence of Caesar in Gaul left Pompey as the only effective power in the state.

Roman sources view the Battle of Carrhae not only as a calamity for Rome and a disgrace for Marcus Crassus, but also as a tragedy for cutting short Publius Crassus's promising career.

The only cognomina which occur on coins are Crassus, Macer, Murena, Nerva, and Stolo.

Although the western territories to the south of the Tagus River were only conquered after the victory of Licinius Crassus in the year 93 BC, very few traces of the native languages persist in modern Portuguese.

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.

With the help of current Consul Crassus he manages, yet only just and by getting himself into unbelievable levels of debt ( and by defeating a rebel army on the verge of attacking Rome ), to obtain the rank.

These achievements granted him unmatched military power and threatened to eclipse the standing of Pompey, who had realigned himself with the Senate after the death of Crassus in 53 BC.

From his first appearance in the Senate, Brutus aligned with the Optimates ( the conservative faction ) against the First Triumvirate of Marcus Licinius Crassus, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Gaius Julius Caesar.

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

Most notorious was his acquisition of burning houses: when Crassus received word that a house was on fire, he would arrive and purchase the doomed property along with surrounding buildings for a modest sum, and then employ his army of 500 clients to put the fire out before much damage had been done.

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.

Crassus effectively ended the Third Servile War in 71 BC, but his rival Pompey stole the victory with a letter to the Senate, in which he argued that Crassus had merely defeated some slaves, while Pompey had won the war.

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

In 55 BC, after the Triumvirate met at the Lucca Conference, he was again consul with Pompey, and a law was passed assigning the provinces of the two Hispanias and Syria to Pompey and Crassus respectively for five years.

Subsequently Crassus ' men, being near mutiny, demanded he parley with the Parthians, who had offered to meet with him.

Crassus, despondent at the death of his son Publius in the battle, finally agreed to meet the Parthian general ; however, when Crassus mounted a horse to ride to the Parthian camp for a peace negotiation, his junior officer Octavius suspected a Parthian trap and grabbed Crassus ' horse by the bridle, instigating a sudden fight with the Parthians that left the Roman party dead, including Crassus.

* 65 BC – Crassus Censor with Quintus Lutatius Catulus

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

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

On stage, he played the part of Lycus in the 1963 London production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Frankie Howerd and appeared in the smaller role of Crassus in the 1966 film version.

* 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.

He met with three prominent leaders: Crassus, the Pontifex Maximus, the consul and jurist Publius Mucius Scaevola, and Appius Claudius, his father-in-law.