Marcus Licinius Crassus
Roman general and statesman who played a key role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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Julius Caesar
Roman general and statesman.
Roman general and statesman.
In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed the First Triumvirate, a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years.
First Triumvirate
The First Triumvirate (60–53 BC) was an informal alliance among three prominent politicians in the late Roman Republic: Gaius Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Marcus Licinius Crassus.
Pompey
Leading Roman general and statesman.
Leading Roman general and statesman.
In 60 BC, Pompey joined Crassus and Caesar in the military-political alliance known as the First Triumvirate.
Battle of Carrhae
Fought in 53 BC between the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire near the ancient town of Carrhae .
Fought in 53 BC between the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire near the ancient town of Carrhae .
An invading force of seven legions of Roman heavy infantry under Marcus Licinius Crassus was lured into the desert and decisively defeated by a mixed cavalry army of heavy cataphracts and light horse archers led by the Parthian general Surena.
Third Servile War
The last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic known as the Servile Wars.
The last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic known as the Servile Wars.
Eventually Rome fielded an army of eight legions under the harsh but effective leadership of Marcus Licinius Crassus that destroyed the army of slaves in 71 BC. This happened after a long and bitter fighting retreat before the legions of Crassus and after the rebels realized that the legions of Pompey and Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus were moving in to entrap them.
Caesar's civil war
One of the last politico-military conflicts of the Roman Republic before its reorganization into the Roman Empire.
One of the last politico-military conflicts of the Roman Republic before its reorganization into the Roman Empire.
Caesar had allied himself with Crassus and Pompey in the so-called First Triumvirate during his consulship.
Roman dictator
Extraordinary magistrate in the Roman Republic endowed with full authority to resolve some specific problem to which he had been assigned.
Extraordinary magistrate in the Roman Republic endowed with full authority to resolve some specific problem to which he had been assigned.
One version of the supposed First Catilinarian conspiracy c. 65 BC (which itself is now held in modern scholarship to be fictitious) related by Suetonius would have had the creation of a dictatorship led by Marcus Licinius Crassus with Julius Caesar as magister equitum.
Sulla's civil war
Fought between the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his opponents, the Cinna-Marius faction , in the years 83–81 BC. The war ended with a decisive battle just outside Rome itself.
Fought between the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his opponents, the Cinna-Marius faction , in the years 83–81 BC. The war ended with a decisive battle just outside Rome itself.
As soon as he had set foot in Italy, the outlawed nobles and old Sullan supporters who had survived the Marian-Cinna regime flocked to his banner. The most prominent among them were Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Lucius Marcius Philippus. Metellus and Crassus did so at the head of their own independently-raised armies.
Plebeians
In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners".
In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners".
Marius and Cicero are notable examples of novi homines (new men) in the late Republic, when many of Rome's richest and most powerful men – such as Lucullus, Marcus Crassus, and Pompey – were plebeian nobles.
Parthian Empire
Major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD. Its latter name comes from its founder, Arsaces I, who led the Parni tribe in conquering the region of Parthia in Iran's northeast, then a satrapy under Andragoras, in rebellion against the Seleucid Empire.
Major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD. Its latter name comes from its founder, Arsaces I, who led the Parni tribe in conquering the region of Parthia in Iran's northeast, then a satrapy under Andragoras, in rebellion against the Seleucid Empire.
The Parthians destroyed the army of Marcus Licinius Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, and in 40–39 BC, Parthian forces captured the whole of the Levant except Tyre from the Romans.