ID: I84702

Name: Publius Licinius Crassus

Given Name: Publius Licinius

Surname: Crassus

Sex: M

_UID: B939BD011F1C3441A40DF4A9F45286C03A55

Change Date: 11 Aug 2005

Birth: 85 BC

Death: 53 BC

Marriage 1 Cornelia Metalla Scipia

Married:

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Publius Licinius Crassus (son of triumvir)

Publius Licinius Crassus (86?/82? BC – 53 BC) was one of two sons of the triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus and Tertulla.

• Publius married Cornelia Metella, the intellectually gifted daughter of the optimate Metellus Scipio, and began his active political career as a monetalis and by providing a security force during his father's campaign for a second consulship. Publius’s promising career was cut short when he died along with his father in an ill-conceived[1] war against the Parthian Empire.
• Cornelia, with whom he probably had no children, then married the much older Pompeius Magnus ("Pompey the Great").

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Marriage

During his time in Rome, Publius married the lavishly praised and highly educated Cornelia, who was probably around sixteen or seventeen. As the daughter of Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, she was “the heiress of the last surviving branch of the Scipiones.”[87] Publius would have been in his late twenties. His military service abroad had postponed marriage to a later age than a Roman noble typically took a wife. The date of their betrothal goes unrecorded, but if Cornelia had long been the desired bride, she would have been too young to marry before Publius left for Gaul, and his worth as a husband may not have been as evident.[88] The political value of the marriage for Publius lay in family ties to the so-called optimates, a continually realigning faction of conservative senators who sought to preserve the traditional prerogatives of the aristocratic oligarchy and to prevent exceptional individuals from dominating through direct appeal to the people or the amassing of military power.[89]

• Publius’s brother had been married to a daughter of Q. Caecilius Metellus Creticus (consul 69 BC), probably around 63–62 BC;[90] both matches signal their father’s desire for rapprochement with the optimates, despite his working arrangements with Caesar and Pompeius, an indication that perhaps the elder Crassus was more conservative than some have thought.[91]