Crassus : the first tycoon / Peter Stothard.

Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was 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. Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might have quietly entered history as Rome's first modern p...

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Uniform Title:Ancient lives (Yale University Press)
Main Author: Stothard, Peter (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Series:Ancient lives (Yale University Press)
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Physical Description:xii, 168 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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