Between the lions and the giraffes, there was an intricate, other world, Rome in 63 BC, a world in which Cicero is consul and Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Catiline and Clodius are vying for power.

In the later republic, some of those men—notably, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus—grew so extraordinarily rich and influential that they began to ignore the constraints of the Senate and ...

Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar’s legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia. Caesar, “voted” dictator, was king in all but name. And when he fell, four years ...

Kennedy, Jr. and his unofficial-advisor Elon Musk have replaced Caesar, Crassus and Pompey. The triumvirate’s goal was to seize power and line their own pockets through bypassing the Senate in ...

While Crassus and Pompey are notoriously long-term enemies, both of them see the benefit of unifying their collective power. To officially solidify his alliance with Pompey, Caesar marries his ...

Then three prominent Romans — Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus, who did not even like one another — agreed to run the empire as a threesome to restore law and order and “save” the Roman ...

Crassus, known as a member of the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Julius Caesar, rose to power largely due to his victory over Spartacus’s rebellion. Much of what we know today about Spartacus ...

Narrator: But by supporting calls for Pompey's return, Caesar's not just rankling his political opponents... he's risking his alliance with his financial backer--Crassus. Marcus Licinius Crassus ...

April 9 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV - Caesar has brokered an uneasy alliance with the two other most powerful men in the Republic, Pompey and Crassus, and the trio dominate the political system.

Caesar has brokered an uneasy alliance with the two other most powerful men in the Republic – Pompey and Crassus. Between them, they dominate the political system, and Caesar appears untouchable.

We start in 63 BC as Caesar positions himself for the ... form unholy alliances with slippery moneymen such as Crassus and puffed-up generals like Pompey the Great, eventually seize power over ...