The Ambitions of Marcus Licinius Crassus and the First Triumvirate

Exploring the early relations between Parthia and Rome, focusing on Crassus' wealth, ambitions, and his plan to invade Parthia for glory and conquest in the context of the first triumvirate dynamics.

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In the year 53 BC, Rome suffered one of the greatest military defeats in its history. A Roman army led by Marcus Lucinisu Crassus was led into the desert in present-day Southern Turkey and was systematically destroy by an army from the Kingdom of Parthia.

The defeat itself didn’t radically weaken Rome, but the death of Crassus led to a chain of events that would result in the end of the Roman Republic.

It was also the opening salvo in a centuries-long rivalry between Rome and Parthia that would never be definitively resolved.

Learn more about the Battle of Carrhae and how the role it played in the destruction of the Roman Republic on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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