Arveh, and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from La Trobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Riannon Evans, Associate Professor in Classics

and Ancient History at La Trobe University.

This is episode CCXLII i i i the house that crassus and pompey built after the death of

crassus his powerful name his fortune and his family's honor survived in this episode we'll trace the life

of the crassie yet to come and how the family comes together with an old

rival. Here's Riannon Evans. I thought that a good way to wrap up our little mini series here on

Crassus would be to take the family tree forward a bit and explore the lesser known crass eye.

Crassie.

What's a plural look?

Prassy, I would say.

Okay.

And to see what happens to the family and the fortunes of crassers, I guess, because

a large amount of inheritance would come along that there'd be power, there'd be family

titles.

And initially, we've talked about him having two sons that were involved in the military, that were closely allied

with Caesar, but one of those sons dies in battle against the Parthians.

So Crassus' two sons are born to him and his wife, Totalia. We don't know much about her, except she'd been married to Crassus' two sons are born to him and his wife, Tertullia. We don't know much about her,

except she'd been married to Crassus' brother previously and widowed. On Tertullia, we get only

this slightly scandalous rumor, and it's from Plutarch's Life of Cicero, Chapter 25. One of the

sons of Crassus, who was thought to resemble a certain Axius, and on this account had brought his mother's name into scandalous connection with that of Axis, once made a successful speech in the Senate.

And when Cicero was asked what he thought of him, he answered with the Greek words, Axis Krasu.

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