Incidentally, the film's suggestion that Crassus engaged Spartacus as a gladiator is fiction. |
Cicero and Antonius were elected consuls, and Catiline, secretly encouraged by Caesar and Crassus, prepared for a rising. |
In victory, Crassus demands to know which of the captured slaves is Spartacus. |
Together Pompey, Crassus and Caesar succeed in getting Caesar elected consul and in passing legislation that mainly benefited them. |
Poor Crassus found, however, that to be a sleeping partner in a concern was quite a dangerous position. |
The Sierra codex was a document written by the master historian and master of deception, Crassus Syra, a runaway from home disguised as a man. |