Crassus and the Triumvirate

Emperors of Rome

La Trobe University

Roman Emire, Rhiannon Evans, Biography, Emperor, La Trobe University, Roman History, Julius Caesar, Rome, Caesar, Ancient History, History, Caillan Davenport, Roman Emperors

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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As Crassus gathered more power and wealth his success was aided by two allies. One, Julius Caesar, had received financial aid from Crassus for many years. The other, Pompeius Magnus, was at the best of times a bitter rival. Together they formed the triumvirate - more powerful together than apart.

Episode CCXLI (241)

Part III of Crassus

Guest:

Assoc. Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classic and Ancient History, La Trobe University)

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0:00.0	Arve and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from La Trobe University.
0:11.0	I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Riannon Evans, Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at La Trobe University.
0:20.0	This is episode CCXLI,
0:23.6	Crassus and the Triumvirate.
0:25.6	As Crassus gathered more power and wealth, his success was aided by two allies.
0:31.6	One, Julius Caesar, had received financial aid from Crassus for many years.
0:36.6	The other, Pompeius Magnus, was at the best of times a bitter rival.
0:41.9	Together they formed the triumvirate, more powerful together than a part.
0:46.8	Here's Riannon Evans.
0:49.8	Previously on Emperors of Rome, we finished the podcast at about 70 BCE, but now we're
0:55.3	going to skip forward to 65 BCE.
0:58.2	Krasis is living it up in Rome as a rich and influential politician, happily married
1:03.6	to his brother's widow, two sons who we haven't mentioned.
1:07.5	Marcus and Publius.
1:08.5	Marcus and Publius.
1:09.5	And in the meantime, while all of this is happening, Pompey is the one to watch because he is getting
1:14.6	very powerful and rich and influential by being a bloody good general.
1:19.6	He's off fighting and having victories and doing what Crassus would probably prefer to be doing.
1:25.6	Yeah, you do get the feeling with Crassis that Pompey or someone else is always coming in
1:31.7	and claiming the glory.
1:33.4	So Pompey had been given a kind of unusual task of not going and conquering a place, but
1:39.5	ridding the Mediterranean of pirates, which had been kind of decades of trouble for the Romans and
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