Marcus Crassus
c. 115 – 53 BC
I made my fortune buying burning houses in Rome—and spent it chasing a foreign triumph that unmade me at Carrhae.
Try asking: "How did you turn wealth into political power in the late Republic without becoming a tyrant?"
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