![]() ![]() Stothard’s book is part of Yale University Press’s Ancient Lives series. ![]() His disastrous defeat in Syria made him a failure, but according to Stothard he was “no ordinary failure, just as he had been no ordinary success-a man whose life as businessman and politician posed both immediate and lasting questions about the intertwining of money, ambition, and power.” “The first tycoon of ancient Rome was also its most famous loser.” So begins Crassus: The First Tycoon, Peter Stothard’s new biography of Marcus Licinius Crassus, the Roman who defeated Spartacus, bankrolled a young Julius Caesar’s career, and lost seven legions and his life in Syria in 53 BC, four years before Caesar crossed the Rubicon. The life of Crassus is worth remembering-especially on the ides of MarchĬrassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard. ![]()
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