Spartacus is about to finish Crassus off, when he himself is impaled by three spears hurled by a small band of arriving Rom. Crassus, about to 'finish off' Spartacus. Spartacus, mortally wounded and down in his knees, watches on as Crassus admires the warrior and says to him "Would that you'd been born Roman and stood beside me.
Crassus, however, survives the fall. Caesar and other Roman troops arrived from the battlefield to come to Crassus' aid. They scramble back up the hill, yet Spartacus and the rebels are gone. Crassus says he'll bleed to death, and that victory is theirs. He orders the remai. Caesar with Crassus on the Appian Way. During Gannicus ' crucifixion, Kore is seen right beside him, having been crucified next to him. Caesar laments the sadness of the sight.
Crassus is saddened by this as well, but says he did what he had too, because Kore had participated on the side of Spartacus, although he has forgiven her. Nonetheless their long-standing relationship ad once existing live had perished and they stood now only as dutiful Imperator and rebellious slave, enemy of Rome condemned to die at Appian Way.
Pompey finally arrives, with a still battered Metellus in tow, to greet Crassus and report that he. Caesar is livid, saying he knows this is a lie and that Spartacus was defeated right there by their own troops, but Crassus stops his comrade and honors Pompey, to which Pompey says Crassus honors him. Crassus says he honors Rome and those who are of like mind who would see her flourish. Pompey, knowing full well what Crassus is doing, thanks him and invites him to dine when Crassus gets back to Rome.
Crassus but responses with his usual reflective manner, saying that sacrificing their rightful honour to Pompey will make him as ally. The calmed and war-fed Imperator, then exchange a last sad, cold and void expression when looking upon Kore and Gannicus, as well as the rest of the cruxifyed slaves, before setting out on business with Caesar accompanying him to construct the First Triumvirate, leaving the Third Sevile War behind them.
Some experts believe that Crassus's wealth during his lifetime was so vast that, after considering currency exchange rates and inflation, he may have been the richest person who has ever lived. During this war, the Crassus family had allied themselves with Marius' nemesis, Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Thus, when Marius took control of the city, Crassus' father, a former consul of Rome named Licinius Crassus, took his own life. His head, along with those of many other Roman noblemen who had allied themselves with Sulla were placed atop stakes in the Roman forum. Marius died shortly after taking the city and his second in command, Lucius Cornelius Cinna Caesar's father-in-law ascended to power.
Cinna placed multiple proscriptions bounties on many of the remaining noblemen who had supported Sulla. Crassus found himself among these men and soon thereafter left Rome and fled to Hispanic, where he lived in hiding for nearly a year. He would eventually make his way to Greece and joined up with Sulla himself, who was about to launch an attack on Italy and retake Rome.
Sulla was successful in his campaign and eventually captured Rome on November 1st, 82 BC. During this final battle at the gates of Rome, Crassus commanded the right wing of Sulla's army, distinguishing himself. Following the successful completion of the war, Crassus turned his full attention away from the battlefield and onto business.
His position in Sulla's ranks gave him access to immense financial growth. Much of Crassus' wealth was acquired through rather unethical means, including by proscriptions of political opponents of Sulla's regime. Crassus seized the property of several of the people marked for death, then sold it at an outrageous mark-up, or kept some for himself.
When Sulla's political opponents were all either dead or exiled, Crassus was said to have arbitrarily added names of citizens whose property he coveted to the proscription list to have them killed, eventually fabricating charges against them to justify their proscription. He then took their property and sold or kept it. Among his independent enterprises, he was in charge of his own private fire-service such services existed in the Roman Republic before the formation of the Cohortes Vigiles by Augustus , where Crassus would force the home owner to sell his property at a reduced price, and would order his slaves to cease work on containing the fire until his client complied with his demands.
It is believed that Crassus' personal fortune amounted to two hundred million sestertii. Four sestertii amounted to one denarius. A single denarius was considered to be the daily wage of an unskilled Roman laborer or soldier. If one were to use this as a comparison, then Crassus' wealth might have roughly stood somewhere around 2.
Despite holding this position and several others throughout the course of his life, Crassus was never considered a legitimate statesman because he did not have any major military victories to call his own. He mostly received his positions through bribery, political strong-arming, and other manipulative tactics rather than through genuine merit and support.
While Crassus had military experience and was known for some minor victories, he did not have the martial respect required for true political legitimacy in Rome. His goal or at least one of them in taking up Roman efforts in the Third Servile War was to achieve a glorious, conspicuous landslide victory against the rebels, earning him the reputation needed to gain political office on his own merits.
However, while besieging Spartacus behind Crassus's infamous wall, the latter was admonished by the senate for taking too long to defeat the rebels, especially when most Romans wanted the rebels' blood shed, but Crassus resorted to the less-gratifying method of starvation.
It was around this time when Pompey finished his campaign in Hispania, which prompted the senate to entrust him with the responsibility of defeating Spartacus. Crassus was enraged, and clamored to claim Spartacus's life himself, taking sole credit for defeating the rebel army. After the final battle at the Silar i us River now known as the Sele River , Crassus expounded enormous effort and expense to crucify the six thousand prisoners taken during the battle.
This was done in part to wage psychological warfare against anyone with lingering thoughts of rebellion, but also to provide Rome with extravagant and graphic proof of Crassus's triumph and cement his reputation as a victor and a conqueror. The crosses were distributed along the Appian Way between Capua and Rome, approximately every feet on both sides of the path. He also ordered that the bodies were not to be moved after the rebels perished, and the decaying corpses were said to have remained on the Appian Way for several years before they were either dismantled by locals or eroded by weather conditions.
Archaeologists continue to find remnants of the executions along the Appian Way, which follows the same path today that it did in 71 BC. While Crassus was carrying out the mass crucifixions, Pompey caught wind of Spartacus's defeat and scrambled to claim his own glory.
He traveled very quickly to Rome, supposedly capturing and crucifying 5, more rebels along the way though some dispute this and speculate that if he did encounter them, they were conscripted into his army instead. He claimed that this meant that he won the war, and due to their preexisting disappointment with Crassus, the senate believed him. Pompey was declared the victor of the war, enraging Crassus, who returned to Rome after Pompey to find that he would only be receiving minor honors for his part in the rebels' defeat.
Furious, Crassus kept his army camped just outside of Rome to intimidate his opponents and compete with Pompey, whose army was also camping outside of Rome.
The two kept their forces there until, frightened that one or both of them would march on Rome and seize power by force if they did not receive political power, the senate chose them to be co-consuls.
This event deepened Crassus's insecurities about his comparative lack of military honors, and set the stage for the rest of his political career and his life. He and Caesar were friends and allies for much of their careers, but Crassus resented Pompey for stealing the credit for ending the Third Servile War, and the two probably only tolerated each other as useful political allies.
However, the three of them were believed to be the three most powerful men in Rome, but they believed none of them would accomplish their objectives if they were constantly competing for power. They joined forces to pool their resources and power to each man's benefit. This had major implications for the short and tumultuous future of the Roman republic going forward. Crassus's defeat and death at the Battle of Carrhae destabilized the triumvirate, leading Caesar and Pompey to go to war with each other.
In 53 BCE, some eighteen years after the conclusion of the Third Servile War, when Crassus held the Proconsulship of Syria, he pursued war with the Parthian Empire, as he hungered for recognition as a general from the Senate; recognition that was denied him despite his victory over Spartacus.
He was jealous of both Caesar's conquests in Gaul as well as Pompey's successes in Hispania and the eastern Mediterranean, and also still bitter that Pompey received the credit for the victory over Spartacus' army.
But Crassus refused the offer and chose to approach the Parthians head-on by crossing the Euphrates River. At the infamous Battle of Carrhae, Crassus's forces suffered losses by the expert Parthian cavalry. To draw them away from their supply lines in hopes that they would run out of arrows, Crassus sent his adult son Publius. But Publius's forces were cornered on a hill by the Parthians, and Publius killed himself before he could be captured or executed.
When Crassus learned that Publius encountered problems with the Parthian cavalry, he risked his entire surviving army to go rescue his son, believing he could still be alive. This was proven wrong when Crassus himself discovered that the Parthians had cut off Publius's head and put it on a spear to taunt Crassus.
Crassus's resulting depression negatively impacted his ability to lead, and nearly his entire force was killed by the Parthian Spahbod general Surena, the few survivors were taken prisoner. Crassus's Quaestor, Gaius Longinus Cassius, would lead 10, men back into the safety of the Province of Syria, but this was only a fraction of Crassus's original force. Crassus would be captured himself, and was shortly executed on Surena's orders by having molten gold poured down his throat to mock his wealth and insatiable greed.
Crassus's head was sent to the actor on the stage who used it as a prop to represent the character Pentheus. Crassus appears as one of the characters in Spartacus: Morituri. As Spartacus schools those who consider themselves gods, perched far above lesser men.
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Instead of approaching Seleucia by way of the Tigris river, where supplies could be provided by boat, Crassus allowed himself to be treacherously guided into the desert in pursuit of the Parthian general Surenas and was surrounded by his cavalry at the Battle of Carrhae. The confined soldiers were showered with volleys of arrows "which fractured armour, and tore their way through every covering alike, whether hard or soft" Plutarch, XXIV.
Dio relates a different end, although equally inglorious. At that same time Cornelius Dolabella, the consul, on his way to Syria, attracted by the renown of this horse, turned aside to Argos, was fired with a desire to own the animal, and bought it for a hundred thousand sesterces; but Dolabella in his turn was besieged in Syria during the civil war, and slain.
There he engaged in battle with the numerically inferior Parthians, and his infantry found they were no match for the barrage of arrows fired by the Parthians. Crassus ignored advice to reconsider his tactics, preferring to wait until the Parthians ran out of ammunition.
That didn't happen, in part because his enemy used the "Parthian shot" tactic, of turning around in their saddles and firing arrows while riding away from the battle. Crassus' men finally demanded that he negotiate an end to the battle with the Parthians, and he headed off to the meeting with the general Surena.
The parley went awry, and Crassus and all of his officers were killed. Crassus died in a scuffle, possibly killed by Pomaxathres. Seven Roman eagles were also lost to the Parthians, a great humiliation to Rome, making this a defeat on the order of Teutoberg and Allia. Although none of the Roman sources could have seen how Crassus died and how his body was treated after death, a rich set of myths are written about that. One myth said the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth, to show the futility of greed.
Others say the general's body remained unburied, cast among the undistinguished heaps of corpses to be torn apart by birds and beasts. At a wedding party of Hyrodes' son, Crassus's head was used as a prop in a performance of Euripides' "The Bacchae.
Over time, the myth grew and was elaborated, and the upshot of the gory details was the death of any possibility of diplomatic reconciliation with Parthia for the next two centuries. As Plutarch says: " before he went upon his Parthian expedition, [Crassus] found his possessions to amount to seven thousand one hundred talents; most of which, if we may scandal him with a truth, he got by fire and rapine, making his advantages of the public calamities.
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