#I do want to do a portrait of Pompey and Crassus after Juan Luna’s Tampuhan tho. that one will require work | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sforzesco · 7 months ago

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POMPEY & SULLA

Pompey, however, was not cowed, but bade Sulla reflect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun, intimating that his own power was on the increase, while that of Sulla was on the wane and fading away

Plutarch, Pompey

political alliances are like bets, you know. sometimes you come out winning, sometimes the guy you were grooming to be your heir has ambitions beyond you and you can’t fully get rid of him. sometimes an alliance is like sharing a pomegranate, like a bad deal. hand in hand, & you’re stuck with them till the end of the line.

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#ye haw! what a fun dynamic #there was a version of this where they were both biting into a split pomegranate but I didn’t feel. like rendering all that #I do want to do a portrait of Pompey and Crassus after Juan Luna’s Tampuhan tho. that one will require work #drawing tag #gnaeus pompeius magnus #lucius cornelius sulla felix #roman republic tag #cant believe Sulla fucking marriage trapped him. so allow me to take it a step further (inhale) (I am forcibly removed from #the podium)

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