#otherwise id be. ough. id be tempted to write a 600 page biography on him attempting to unravel this
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you know that post about how scholars talk shit about each other when they write the phrase 'one might be tempted to assume,' or however it went. the entirety of crassus scholarship is like this.
#thankfully all i do is make comics and i can do whatever i want as long as i can justify the narrative beat#otherwise id be. ough. id be tempted to write a 600 page biography on him attempting to unravel this#B.A. Marshall mentioning Rawson's article on Crassus that initially intrigued me about him and he counters her assertion#that pompey overshadowed him with the triumph in a footnote like in a way we have come full circle#everyone collectively agrees that pompey and crassus were not the rivals that a lot of people seem to think they were#so im glad that we're all shaking hands on that. and that the rivalry they did have was just. the usual kind expected from the political#scene. very fun! for narrative purposes i will continue to make them periodically bite each other#because every time someone goes 'oh yeah they were heirs to sulla' i think im going to lose my mind#it does in some ways make their repeated alliance a little unsettling tho. like. haha ha ehgh. now we have to contend with#other kinds of parallels
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