Word: crassus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City property was communal, money abolished, law-breaking punished with crucifixion. But Utopias under arms are even less durable than Utopias in peace. End of Spartacus' briefly brilliant career came when asthmatic, cynical Marcus Crassus propped up the tottering Roman republic for a few more years by crushing the rebellion. Crassus celebrated his triumphal return by crucifying 6,000 of his captives along the Appian...
...nervous breakdown before she completed it. The result is a volume that businessmen could value as a lucid, informative study of their pioneering ancestors. The dimensions of the book are extraordinary. The 28 chapters are subdivided into 209 sections, covering commercial cities from Carthage to Chicago, war makers from Crassus to Krupp, business failures from John Law to the Van Sweringens. There is a warmly-written, fact-laden essay on medieval Liibeck, centre of the Hanseatic League, sections devoted to business in Venice and Florence, to booms & crashes in Nurnberg, Antwerp, Bremen, the rise and fall of the Fuggers...
When Rome was no longer too hot to hold him Caesar soon established himself there as one of the shrewdest schemers of a conspiratorial day. He fished to such good purpose in Rome's troubled waters that eventually he caught the great Pompey and the millionaire Crassus in his net, became with them one of the three rulers of the Roman world. Then he went off to make his military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome...
...inflation, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg dramatically presented him with a 100,000,000,000-mark note which he explained was now worth 2½?. To shame gold-greedy Republicans, Louisiana's Long dipped into Roman history and plucked out as a horrible example Triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 B. C.). According to Senator Long, opulent Crassus, after bleeding the citizenry of Rome of all its gold, was put to death by having the molten metal poured down his throat...
...recreating for us fifth century Athens, nevertheless, the reader is sure to carry away a fairly substantial picture of the life at Rome in the height of its greatness. Inevitably other great characters of history figure to a more or less extent in this account; men such as Caesar, Crassus, Octavius, Mark Antony, Brutus, Cassius are all seen in their relation to Cicero and his times. Of course Cicero's life is the central theme of the book, and is shown throughout its development...