CrassusThe story of Romes richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory A perfectly paced biography.Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement Marcus Licinius Crassus (11553 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might have quietly entered history as Romes first