In 53 BC, the Roman triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus marched east seeking glory and conquest. Instead, at Carrhae, Parthian cavalry and devastating horse archer tactics shattered the Roman legions and ...
Crassus was well known as the bad guy in old Moscow. Outside the classroom there was also the film in which Laurence Olivier’s Crassus squared off against Kirk Douglas’s Spartacus, adding the detail ...