{"id":52983,"date":"2019-07-24T23:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/crassus-richest-roman-in-history\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:08:12","slug":"crassus-richest-roman-in-history","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/crassus-richest-roman-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Crassus &#8211; richest Roman in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/marcus-licinius-crassus\/\">Marcus Crassus<\/a> was certainly the richest Roman of the 1st century BCE, if not the richest in all Rome&#8217;s history. He made a lot of money on construction, silver mining and loans for interest. He organized a &#8220;fire brigade&#8221; for the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the time when the fire broke out Crassus with his &#8220;firemen&#8221; (a unit of 500 slaves) appeared on the spot and first bought a burning building with the ground for a small amount of money, and only then his people proceeded to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p>In this way he became the owner of a large part of Roman real estate. Crassus also increased wealth in a more traditional way, engaging in slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>Wealth of Crassus, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/pliny-the-elder\/\">Pliny the Elder<\/a> described on 200 million sesterces. According to Plutarch, his wealth grew from less than 300 to 7100 talents. Literally, his fortune was 229 tons of gold. A huge fortune meant that Crassus had a strong position on the political scene of republican Rome and carried out his political plans through bribery. Crassus&#8217; large financial support allowed to &#8220;spread the wings&#8221; of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gaius-julius-caesar\/\">Caesar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40443,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-52983","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/52983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/52983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=52983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}