Crassus: Rome’s richest man
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The Baki by Euripides - The Head of the King of Parthia
The story goes that his head and hands had to be taken back to the king of Parthia. This was very important that it was Crassus' war, therefore they had to bring backCrassus' body and his head - most importantly so you could see it was him. It seems very unlikely that Crassus's head would come back exactly at the time when they needed it for this play,. But it's not impossible that they needed a few days later or something that's perfectly reasonable. Whether it was too perfectly likely sort of thing that the Parthians would do is another matter.
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