#keavney's sulla biography is a good time. sampson's work on crassus is a blast. morstein-marx is the caesar guy to go to

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Sorry if you've answered this before, but do you have any recommended sources for someone looking to start learning about Crassus/the first triumvirate?

forever ago someone ALSO asked this and that ask (so sorry to that anon) has been sitting in my drafts half finished because I realized I needed to finish reading something before I could answer it. then I got busy reading about the fall of the templar order of all things (and romance literature about the order that may or may not have had an impact on grail quest literature) and forgot to finish writing it up.

SO! at long last, after ten thousand years, my recs list for anyone just starting out:

I. Plutarch's biographies on the Tris Homines/Trikaranos (Crassus, Pompey, Caesar)

II. These books by Gareth C Sampson

- The Collapse of Rome: Marius, Sulla, and the First Civil War

- Rome, Blood and Power: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic 70-27 BC