#pompey immediately: FUCK YOU i treat all of my wives great. you'd LOVE it
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sforzesco · 1 year ago
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a bystander: both of you are focusing on the wrong thing
anyway! this is a comic from the vault™! it was originally something goofy I drew for myself after I read a couple of different takes on this whole event (Crassus leaving Rome in 63 BCE, see Plutarch Pompey 43). like.
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the phrasing is giving late night teleserye plot drama.
and this literally sounds like something a friend has told me about someone else's relationship drama with their sometimes ex. but like. on a less high stakes stage.
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ALRIGHT, moving on. some stuff that was Fun To Read, To Me
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Crassus' New Friends and Pompey's Return, Eve J Parrish
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Crassus: a Political Biography, B.A. Marshall
speaking of titles, fascinated by how this part of crassus' life gets defined by pompey's absence/return. hello fellas!
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AND FINALLY inspiration for Pompey's comment about perpetuating cycles of violence comes from this delightfully dramatic bit of writing
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Marcus Crassus and the Late Roman Republic, Allen Mason Ward
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