Our second chat in April (Winter Quarters by Alfred Duggan) and to a very brief extent the ones in May (Literature on Catilina from Sallust to modern fiction) have Marcus Licinius Crassus as secondary subject.
Here is Plutarch: Life of Crassus on LacusCurtius.
With regard to Winter Quarters, go to Chapter 15, where Crassus gets allotted Syria province, and read on.
The Catilinian Conspiracy is briefly touched upon in Chapter 13:
[...] 2 In the affair of Catiline, which was very serious, and almost subversive of Rome, some suspicion attached itself to Crassus, and a man publicly named him as one of the conspirators, but nobody believed him. 3 Nevertheless, Cicero, in one of his orations, plainly inculpated Crassus and Caesar. This oration, it is true, was not published until after both were dead; but in the treatise upon his consulship, Cicero says that Crassus came to him by night with a letter which gave details of the affair of Catiline, and felt that he was at last establishing the fact of a conspiracy. 4 And Crassus, accordingly, always hated Cicero for this, but was kept from doing him any open injury by his son. For Publius Crassus, being given to literature and learning, was attached to Cicero, so much so that he put on mourning when Cicero did at the time of his trial, and prevailed upon the other young men to do the same. And finally he persuaded his father to become Cicero's friend.
