Crassus: The First Tycoon (Ancient Lives)

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Practic, avem la îndemână o sinteză foarte fină a izvoarelor istorice disponibile despre Crassus, Stothard cunoscând și înțelegând suficient perioada încât să-și poarte cititorii cu ușurință printre meandrele epocii Republicane târzii fără a-i plictisi sau rătăci pe aceștia. If you are looking for a quick read that will teach you something new about a largely forgotten man, then it is worthwhile.

Since the days of Plutarch, if not before, Marcus Licinius Crassus has been viewed as the ultimate exemplar of folly and dishonesty in the super-rich. Stothard’s elegant and penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil. One of the strengths of Stothard's writing is that he shows rather than tells: anecdote is preferred to adjectives.Peter Stothard's sublime account of his life one can sense that Olivier was not far off in his interpretation of the man.

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.Nonetheless, this is a well-written biography of one of Ancient Rome's most fascinating bad guys with an absolutely gorgeous cover to boot.

The focus is really on the power politics of the times and much less on the day to day life of this 'first financier'.His story poses both immediate and lasting questions about the intertwining of money, ambition, and power.

New Paperbacks NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks.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). The financier of Rome's Late Republic, member of the unofficial Triumvirate with Caesar and Pompey, and suppressor of Spartacus's rebellion, he is perhaps best remembered as the loser at Carrhae when - after watching his son's untimely death - he has his own head removed from his body, later (according to rumour) to be used as a prop in a Greek play.