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brother-emperors · 8 months

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so. my laptop is Deceased, which means I don’t have half of my pdf library (because I wasn’t able to back it all up yet. weeping and wailing), and THAT means that I have a much smaller pool of texts to work off with and cite, so. this is a much more direct glimpse into my thoughts when I’m reading ancient sources and don’t have the poetry of scholars to direct my imagination

anyway, the tris homines alliance is also an informal club for people that had weird but formative relationships with sulla. like. a real Make Them Worse situation happened there. crassus becomes someone who is half shadowy rumor behind every dealing in the eyes of others, pompey and caesar drag rome back into civil war, sulla says that caesar resembles marius but it’s sulla’s playbook that caesar later runs. everyone dies in places where they do not expect to die.

Plutarch, Caesar

Plutarch, Pompey

Plutarch, Crassus

Rome, Blood & Power, Gareth C Sampson

Sulla: The Last Republican, Arthur Keaveney

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

#I’m doing all of this on my iPad and I’m fucking dying #I’m like. I’m OLD I only use my iPad for art and work. Typing all of this out on a touch screen took out my lifespan #tris homines #roman republic tag #everyone clap for caesar #komiks tag #Can’t wait to do the comic where caesar has Crassus’ fingers in his mouth bc that has no citations. maybe one.#gotta. Pick myself up off the ground. I have spent enough time crying over lost PDFs. I will probably cry more.#but these three absolute nightmares are calling my name and I will heed the call. I can ALSO make them worse #shaking hands with sulla on that and on that ONLY #drawing tag #gnaeus pompeius magnus #marcus licinius crassus #gaius julius caesar

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