For tin and silver that they could use for weapons and money they had to mine the lands of Spain and the legendary Tin Islands, whose location was somewhere near Britain but kept secret to deter exploiters. Great quick read and a wonderfully concise window into the period of ultimate crisis that would break the Roman Republican. La o primă analiză, seria ar putea fi cuprinsă în colecțiile Osprey, calitatea scriiturii și veridicitatea informațiilor tinzând în acea direcție. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications that are exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers. Flashbacks paint a good picture about his early career, the internal politics in Rome and his rivalry with Pompey. Pentru cei care nu se gândesc zilnic la Imperiul Roman, merită amintit faptul că Crassus, acest tycoon cum îl numește autorul, a făcut parte din "Primul Triumvirat", acționând ca o contrapondere pentru ceilalți doi colegi ai săi: mai faimoșii Iuliu Caesar și Pompei cel Mare.But when it comes to the mysterious third man who pulled the strings and turned the gears of politics in first-century BC Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus has only himself to blame for historical obscurity. But Crassus also liked to believe that Rome’s gods blessed his enterprises, just as they blessed the fertility of his unmined fields. It joins the dots between his father dying in the Marius/Sulla conflict, his role in the battles with Spartacus, the triumvirate with Caesar and Pompey and finally his demise in his quest for glory to try to match the prestige and martial exploits of his co triumvirates. Here he cleverly explores the life of one of the most puzzling and elusive ‘big men’ in the history of Rome, and why it matters.

Scriitorul englez, jurnalist și critic, se pare că a scris această operă la "comanda" Universității Yale ca parte dintr-o serie mai largă în care sunt descrise scurt, clar și la obiect, viețile antice ale unor personalități alese mai mult sau mai puțin aleatoriu (Cleopatra, Ramses, Demetrius, Julian Apostatul). Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might have quietly entered history as Rome’s first modern political financier. Dip Into NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks. Douglas Boin is Professor of History at Saint Louis University and the author of Alaric the Goth (W. Stothard’s biographical history is erudite yet written in an easy-to-read style honed by years as an editor, journalist, and critic.Cracking first rate read on Marcus Licinius Crassus, the lesser known of the triumvirate formed with Pompey and Julius Caesar. The focus is really on the power politics of the times and much less on the day to day life of this 'first financier'. First, the Crassus whom most of us know best as the crucifier of Spartacus’s slave army, would probably have owned the lithium fields himself.

It moves quickly and feels jumpy at times but it is informative and tries to stick to the source material.Previous knowledge of the characters and the time period is definitely helpful as it is not a thorough biography (probably for the better). His story, skillfully told by Peter Stothard, poses both immediate and lasting questions about the intertwining of money, ambition, and power. Peter Stothard's 'Crassus' is a new biography written for Yale University Press's Ancient Lives series, which aims to prove that the lives of ancient thinkers, rulers, warriors, and politicians are still relevant today.

Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers. Stothard is British and some of his idioms and sentence structures can be a bit challenging for the American audience. 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.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. 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. Could have done with more investigation into how Crassus and his image have been rendered throughout (Romand and beyond) historiography as well as the impact of Carrhae on the wider development of the Roman Empire (there are only ever subtle hints at it). Stothard wrote an excellent concise account of the fates of Caesar's assassins and he repeats it again -- quality not quantity is the watchword. 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.