Crassus: The First Tycoon (Ancient Lives)

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Inspection copies are books under consideration as required or recommended reading for an upcoming course. The locals of Cesano on the edge of Rome are expecting a 21st century gold rush, their own Texas oil boom, after the announcement last year that the ‘rare earth’, lithium, lies in large extractable seams beneath their soil. If you are looking for a quick read that will teach you something new about a largely forgotten man, then it is worthwhile. Drawing mostly on Plutarch, Stothard delivers a detailed (as much as possible) account of Crassus' economic and political rise in the Caesar, Sulla, Pompey environment.

Dip Into NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks.Crassus usually appears in biographies of Caesar or Spartacus, so it was interesting to read a book focusing on the man himself. 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. 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).

If he hadn’t owned the new mine he would certainly have had the mine’s owner in his debt: almost all the big players of the time, Julius Caesar most of all, owed money to Crassus. We publish history, politics, current affairs, art, architecture, biography and pretty much everything else. It was a Parthian insult which essentially meant as hair cannot grow on a man's palm it conformed to the Greek word adunaton that something cannot happen until something impossible happens 'deserts freezing over, dogs climbing pear trees. One of the strengths of Stothard's writing is that he shows rather than tells: anecdote is preferred to adjectives. The metallic white powder that powers electric cars may finally bring the homegrown wealth to Rome that the ancient Romans liked to think was always there—but, curiously, never liked to look for.An obscenely wealthy oligarch seeks new prestige by invading a neighbouring country whose resilience he doesn't appreciate--and meets with catastrophe. Crassus: The First Tycoon tells the story of Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 BCE), a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic.