Why Romans burned their own city: Crasus of The Late Roman Republic #Rome #historyfacts #ancienthistory Sources Plutarch, on Crassus’ infamous fire profiteering (The Life of Crassus): The Romans, it is true, say that the many virtues of Crassus were obscured by his sole vice of avarice [...] The greatest part of [Crassus’ wealth], if one must tell the scandalous truth, he got together out of fire and war, making the public calamities his greatest source of revenue. Observing how natural and fami
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Why Romans burned their own city: Crasus of The Late Roman Republic #Rome #historyfacts #ancienthistory Sources Plutarch, on Crassus’ infamous fire profiteering (The Life of Crassus): The Romans, it is true, say that the many virtues of Crassus were obscured by his sole vice of avarice [...] The greatest part of [Crassus’ wealth], if one must tell the scandalous truth, he got together out of fire and war, making the public calamities his greatest source of revenue. Observing how natural and fami
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