Assess the Significance of the Military and Political Career of Marcus Crassus

Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of the three informal "triumvirs" who helped bring an end to the Republic, unlike Pompey and Caesar, is a man about whom not much is known. Unlike his counterparts, little has been written about him, either at the time of his life or in more contemporary accounts of the period. However, that is not to say that his political and military career were not exceptionally important in the last decades of the Roman republic. Many of Crassus' military and political decisions attributed to both the rise to power of both Caesar and Pompey and ultimately the fall of the republic.
Crassus, though he achieved the position of Consul twice in his life and remained for most of his time the richest man in Rome, has had little written about him. Plutarch inexplicably leaves large gaps in his crucial biography. …