Emperor Crassus became the richest Roman and one of the richest men in the ancient world through his cunning, business savvy ...

Crassus was well known as the bad guy in old Moscow. Outside the classroom there was also the film in which Laurence Olivier’s Crassus squared off against Kirk Douglas’s Spartacus, adding the detail ...

He was a hard, tough man, Marcus Licinius Crassus, a proper b*****d even by the standards of ancient Rome. Though you had to be tough to survive in those harsh days. Life could be short. Crassus was ...

The consequences of the unlikely defeat of a Roman army over 2,000 years ago have lessons for the 'War in Iraq', according to a new book. Historian Dr Gareth Sampson from The University of Manchester ...

Although concentrating on the events of 40 B.C. through 20 B.C., Dr. Sampson, an independent scholar specializing in the final age of the Roman Republic, devotes about a quarter of his text to a ...