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* DeathByMaterialism: The author chooses to embrace - and ''graphically'' depict - the second rumor of how Crassus died: having molten gold poured down his throat.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Mainly Marcus Crassus and UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar. UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}} appears in Egypt. Spartacus is mentioned in passing, but he's dead already (Ben Kane later gave him his own duology).
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Mainly Marcus Crassus UsefulNotes/MarcusLiciniusCrassus and UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar. UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}} appears in Egypt. Spartacus is mentioned in passing, but he's dead already (Ben Kane later gave him his own duology).
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* GeneralFailure: Marcus Licinius Crassus, still riding high from his defeat of Spartacus (thirty years ago) fails to realize that he is fighting a completely different enemy on completely different terrain, and it ends as badly as it possibly could for him, his son, and his army.
* IgnoredExpert: Cassius Longinus, the most battle-experienced of Crassus's military tribunes, insists that Crassus needs to link up with their Armenian allies' cavalry force, that a direct march to Parthia's capitol through the desert is suicide, and that their Nabatean allies can't be trusted. Crassus ignores him, and Cassius is proved right on all counts. When the Roman army is entrapped by the Parthians, Cassius dares to suggest a different battle formation than Crassus's snap decision, and is ignored ''again''.
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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The first book has three main subplots: Romulus at the ludus, where he meets Brennus (introduced in a prologue), Fabiola at the brothel, and Tarquinius's wanderings. The three males eventually meet in Crassus's army. [[spoiler:But Tarquinius unwittingly caused them to be there by murdering his enemy in the dark right when a tipsy Brennus and Romulus were passing. They get blamed for it, fight the night watch, and get out of town.]] The later two books have two, since Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinus tend to stick together.
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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The first book has three main subplots: Romulus at the ludus, where he meets Brennus (introduced in a prologue), Fabiola at the brothel, and Tarquinius's wanderings. The three males eventually meet in Crassus's army. [[spoiler:But Tarquinius unwittingly caused them to be there by murdering his enemy in the dark right when a tipsy Brennus and Romulus were passing. They get blamed for it, fight the night watch, and get out of town.]] The later two books have two, since Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinus tend to stick together.together.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: The Parthians, who wear kohl around their eyes (even the soldiers), have almost no infantry forces and only mounted archers, and whose dinky composite bows are much smaller than the Romans' mighty war bows, couldn't possibly be a threat to Crassus's legion... right?
* UnderestimatingBadassery: The Parthians, who wear kohl around their eyes (even the soldiers), have almost no infantry forces and only mounted archers, and whose dinky composite bows are much smaller than the Romans' mighty war bows, couldn't possibly be a threat to Crassus's legion... right?
