Crassus: The First Tycoon (Ancient Lives)

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It was only on the second reading that I noticed all the similarities between the structure and style of this book and of an Aristotelian tragedy and began really to appreciate it as such. It was a Parthian insult which essentially meant as hair cannot grow on a man's palm it conformed to the Greek word adunaton that something cannot happen until something impossible happens 'deserts freezing over, dogs climbing pear trees. An otherwise comfortable life of wealth and privilege ended with Crassus’ head being used as a prop on a Parthian stage.

The locals of Cesano on the edge of Rome are expecting a 21st century gold rush, their own Texas oil boom, after the announcement last year that the ‘rare earth’, lithium, lies in large extractable seams beneath their soil.

The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice. It is not narrative history of the likes of Tom Holland and is not, therefore, such an easy read, while the arrangement and focus of the chapters can lead to some glaring examples of repetition. Since the days of Plutarch, if not before, Marcus Licinius Crassus has been viewed as the ultimate exemplar of folly and dishonesty in the super-rich.

This book would be interesting, to learn more about a historical character who ruled the Roman world with Julius Caesar, however too many letters were missing from words that I had to continuously guess what the text was supposed to be saying and made the book unreadable. Crassus is the least known of the Triumvirate of the Late Republic so this book likely fills th gap between all that is written about Pompey and Caesar. We publish history, politics, current affairs, art, architecture, biography and pretty much everything else.Crassus is best known as the richest man of Rome and member of the First Triumvirate together with Caesar and Pompey. Given the turmoil in the world economy, there might perhaps be no more fitting subject for such a series than Crassus.

Only when Crassus changed the home-loving habits of a lifetime and set off on an old-fashioned eastern invasion of his own, did he find that the prophets were suddenly against him.Eighteen years after rising to the public’s attention for ending Spartacus’ revolt, Caesar’s one-time banker and Rome’s former head of state departed for the Tigris and Euphrates with mad imperialist designs of annexing Parthia to Rome.

He purchased the election of priests, even investing spectacular sums to make Caesar chief priest, the pontifex maximus, as a counterweight to the power of Pompey. If he hadn’t owned the new mine he would certainly have had the mine’s owner in his debt: almost all the big players of the time, Julius Caesar most of all, owed money to Crassus. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

Practic, avem la îndemână o sinteză foarte fină a izvoarelor istorice disponibile despre Crassus, Stothard cunoscând și înțelegând suficient perioada încât să-și poarte cititorii cu ușurință printre meandrele epocii Republicane târzii fără a-i plictisi sau rătăci pe aceștia. However, he ignored it and worse he also dismissed a warning from an emissary of his Parthian opponent when Crassus turned down an offer of being free to leave and said he would give his answer once he was embedded in the royal city of Seleuceia.