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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 ).
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Crassus and was
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 ).
Crassus and up
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.
The book depicts an overconfident and militarily incompetent Crassus up to the moment of his death.
He influenced Crassus ' plans, convincing him to give up the idea of advancing to the Greek city of Seleucia near the Euphrates, whose inhabitants were sympathetic to the Romans.
Gaius, without saying a word, gently pried himself from her arms and left her there, weeping, until her servants eventually came to pick her up and carried her to her brother Crassus.
* 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 tribune Ateius Capito put up strenuous opposition, and infamously conducted a public ritual of execration as Crassus prepared to depart.
Meeting up with Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius and Publius Licinius Crassus ( who had eventually obeyed Octavius ’ plea to return to Rome ) at the Alban Hills, he was frustrated when they began to negotiate with Cinna, even going so far recognizing Cinna as consul.
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.
He was joined by Marcus Licinius Crassus, but both men fell out, and Crassus was forced to leave and eventually join up with Sulla in Greece.
Crassus and offices
* Publius Licinius Crassus Dives is elected " pontifex maximus " over more distinguished candidates, despite never having held any major offices.
Crassus and held
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.
Crassus and by
"; 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.
* Third Servile War ends ; Slave uprising under leadership of Spartacus is crushed by a Roman army under Marcus Licinius Crassus.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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