Crassus Podcast

After being assigned Crassus as my character for the Crisis of Cataline I decided to listen to a podcast about his life. I learned many things from how he grew up to how he eventually died. What I can now say after listening to the podcast is that Crassus was not a nice guy and deserved to die the way he did.

He grew up with little wealth and was a a follower of Sulla. He becomes well known as an army general after assembling an army and fighting against the Marians to give power back to the Sullans. After defeating the Marians, Crassus obtained the properties of the Sullans victims. This leads Crassus to be extremely wealthy.

This is where Crassus loses all respect from me. Once he acquired this power and wealth he started the first roman fire brigade except it was not a typical fire brigade. Crassus would show up to burning houses and negotiate to buy the burning building and in return would save the people and the house. If the house owners were not willing to sell he would let it burn to the ground and claimed the house. He then used slave labour to rebuild the burned houses and would sell them and keep the profits.

Crassus ends up becoming a significant political figure as a part of the first triumvirate but his greed for wealth and power gets him and his army killed.

I learned a lot from this podcast about my character unfortunately I listened with a fellow classmate and he used the information he learned about Crassus against me in the game.