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...
| Uniform Title: | Ancient lives (Yale University Press)
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Ancient lives (Yale University Press)
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| Physical Description: | xii, 168 pages : map ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One The Secret Disrupter
- ch. Two A Faraway Place
- ch. Three Nothing to Laugh About
- ch. Four Inside the Cave
- ch. Five Crassus at War
- ch. Six Ways of Revenge
- ch. Seven Parthian Faces
- ch. Eight Fire and Finance
- ch. Nine Problems with Foreigners
- ch. Ten Spartacus
- ch. Eleven Eastern Questions
- ch. Twelve The Nature of Money
- ch. Thirteen A Three-Headed Monster
- ch. Fourteen How to Be First
- ch. Fifteen A Divine Bull's Warning
- ch. Sixteen Hairs on a Man's Palm
- ch. Seventeen Camels and Bows
- ch. Eighteen A Brawl over a Horse
- ch. Nineteen Crassus's Triumph.