Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crassus: The First Tycoon Author: Peter Stothard Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 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 Rome's first modern political financier. Instead, Crassus and his son led an army on an unprovoked campaign against Parthia into what are now the borderlands of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, losing a battle at Carrhae which scarred Roman minds for generations. After Crassus was killed, historians told many stories of his demise. Some said that his open mouth, shriveled by desert air, had been filled with molten gold as testament to his lifetime of greed. His story poses both immediate and lasting questions about the intertwining of money, ambition, and power.