CRASSUS, MARCUS LICINIUS°
- CRASSUS, MARCUS LICINIUS°
- CRASSUS, MARCUS LICINIUS° (d. 54 B.C.E.),
prominent Roman toward the end of the republican period. Crassus served
as consul together with Pompey in 70 B.C.E. He was consul
again in 55, and was appointed proconsul of Syria for five years in
order to wage war against the Parthians. The war began in 54
B.C.E., and continued until the following year, when
Crassus was defeated and killed by the Parthians. Crassus was the first
Roman to seize the funds of the Temple, to the amount of 2,000 talents
of gold, despite the golden ingot offered him by Eleazar, the priest in
charge of the curtains of the sanctuary.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Schuerer, Hist, 104–5; M. Radin, The Jews among the Greeks and
Romans (1915), 265–6, 397 n. 20; Regling, in: Klio, 7
(1907), 357–94; Jos., Ant., 14:105ff.; Jos., Wars, 1:179; Jos., Apion,
2:82.
(Menahem Stern)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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