Assess The Significance of the Military and Political Career of Marcus Crassus.

Essay One - Crassus Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of the three informal "triumvirs" who helped bring an end to the Republic, unlike Pompey and Caesar, is a man about whom not much is known. Unlike his counterparts, little has been written about him, either at the time of his life or in more contemporary accounts of the period. However, that is not to say that his political and military career were not exceptionally important in …

…of Rome. It is only when we compare them to that of others of his time that they seem minor. At any other time he may have been the number one man in Rome but with figures such as Caesar and Pompey living at the same time his status decreased. His joining with his two rivals all but ensured the eventual downfall of the republic, as their alliance totally undermined the principle of the institution.