74 - Crassus Aftermath, Takeaways, Sources
11/17/23 • 19 min
What happened to Crassus' captured soldiers? To his family? What can we learn from his successes and his world-historic failure?
ANNOUNCEMENT! Cost of Glory Men's Leadership Retreat in Rome - July 2024. Reach out to [email protected] if you're interested.
Buy the books:
-Penguin edition of Plutarch including Life of Crassus
-Sallust's war with Catiline
-Tom Holland's Rubicon
-Barry Strauss' book on Spartacus
-Edward Watts's Mortal Republic
-Gareth Sampson, "The Defeat of Rome" on Parthian Expedition
-Peter Stothard, The First Tycoon
See also Gruen, Last Generation of the Roman Republic; Ward, Crassus and the Late Roman Republic; Rawson, Crassorum Funera (in journal Latomus).
Pictured: Roman Soldier next to a Han noble, statue group in Liqian, China. Photo: Natalie Behring
What happened to Crassus' captured soldiers? To his family? What can we learn from his successes and his world-historic failure?
ANNOUNCEMENT! Cost of Glory Men's Leadership Retreat in Rome - July 2024. Reach out to [email protected] if you're interested.
Buy the books:
-Penguin edition of Plutarch including Life of Crassus
-Sallust's war with Catiline
-Tom Holland's Rubicon
-Barry Strauss' book on Spartacus
-Edward Watts's Mortal Republic
-Gareth Sampson, "The Defeat of Rome" on Parthian Expedition
-Peter Stothard, The First Tycoon
See also Gruen, Last Generation of the Roman Republic; Ward, Crassus and the Late Roman Republic; Rawson, Crassorum Funera (in journal Latomus).
Pictured: Roman Soldier next to a Han noble, statue group in Liqian, China. Photo: Natalie Behring
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73 - Crassus III: Battle of Carrhae
Crassus' famous campaign against the Parthians - what motivated it? What happened at Carrhae? What can we learn from it?
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Key Figures
Marcus Licinius Crassus - The Protagonist
Gaius Pompeius Magnus - Pompey, the Rival
Lucius Licinius Crassus - the Orator
Publius Licinius Crassus - Crassus' father
Publius Licinius Crassus - Crassus' Son
Publius Clodius Pulcher - The Playboy Mobster
Titus Annius Milo - Anti-Mobster
Marcus Tullius Cicero - The Mentor
Gaius Julius Caesar - The Triumvir
Marcus Porcius Cato - The Nemesis
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus - The Challenger
Ptolemy XII "Auletes" - The Piper King
Aulus Gabinius - Pompey's Crony in Syria
Trebonius - Willing Tribune
Ateius (Capito) - Unwilling Tribune
Gaius Cassius Longinus - The Assassin
Octavius - The Junior Officer
Orodes II - King of Parthia
Mithradates IV - Parthian Usurper
Surena - the Parthian Commander at Carrhae
Key Places
Rome
Ravenna - City in Northern Italy (cisalpine Gaul)
Luca - City in Northern Italy (Etruria/Cisalpine Gaul)
Curia - The Senate house
Syria - Roman Province
Mesopotamia
Iraq
Seleucia
Babylon
Ctesiphon
Carrhae
Euphrates River
Italian quote at the beginning: Dante, Purgatorio XX
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75 - How to Turn People Down (or, "On Cringe")
The vice of "dysopia" brings down even the strongest. Plutarch gives some advice on how to fortify ourselves against it.
Reach out to [email protected] for more info on the 2024 Cost of Glory Men's retreat in Rome!
Link to a translation of Plutarch's text : https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_vitioso_pudore*.html
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