https://www.superphysics.org/research/plutarch/crassus/ Recent content in The Life of Crassus on Superphysics Hugo en https://www.superphysics.org/research/plutarch/crassus/part-02/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/plutarch/crassus/part-02/ <p>The insurrection of the gladiators and the devastation of Italy was called the war of Spartacus. It began on this occasion.</p> <p>Lentulus Batiates trained many gladiators in Capua, most of them Gauls and Thracians.</p> https://www.superphysics.org/research/plutarch/crassus/part-01/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/plutarch/crassus/part-01/ <p>Marcus Crassus, whose father had borne the office of a censor, and received the honor of a triumph, was educated in a little house together with his two brothers, who both married in their parents&rsquo; lifetime; they kept but one table amongst them; all which, perhaps, was not the least reason of his own temperance and moderation in diet. One of his brothers dying, he married his widow, by whom he had his children; neither was there in these respects any of the Romans who lived a more orderly life than he did, though later in life he was suspected to have been too familiar with one of the vestal virgins, named Licinia, who was, nevertheless, acquitted, upon an impeachment brought against her by one Plotinus. Licinia stood possessed of a beautiful property in the suburbs, which Crassus desiring to purchase at a low price, for this reason was frequent in his attentions to her, which gave occasion to the scandal, and his avarice, so to say, serving to clear him of the crime, he was acquitted. Nor did he leave the lady till he had got the estate.</p>