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sforzesco · 2 years ago

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Now, Caesar had long ago decided to put down Pompey, just as, of course, Pompey also had decided to put Caesar down. For now that Crassus, who was only waiting for the issue of their struggle to engage the victor, had perished among the Parthians, it remained for him who would be greatest to put down him who was, and for him who was greatest, if he would not be put down, to take off in time the man he feared.

Plutarch, Caesar

me Crassus when Caesar and Pompey start fighting: 🍿🍿

there's a more dramatic illustration I want to do of this particular aspect of the Caesar-Pompey dynamic, courtesy of Lucan's Pharsalia, but first. I need to get this out of my system

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#gaius julius caesar #gnaeus pompeius magnus #marcus licinius crassus #tris homines #komiks tag #drawing tag #roman republic tag #other things i need to get out of my system: all this sulla-crassus-pompey brainrot #sometimes i have commentary in the tags but i keep circling back to the homoeroticism of patron-client relationships #(and resulting debt subtext) courtesy of the quattrocento #and quite frankly. i am too sleepy to talk about economic discourses without saying something deeply weird about it all

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