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duxfemina · 1 month

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A classic Greek vs Roman situation

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aristocraticvision · 2 years

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Chapter 14: Honors and Pronouncements (Pt 2)

It was late afternoon when a stirring from the doors of the Villa Publica preceded the exit of Gnaeus Pompey Magnus and his party. Cicero and Quintus rose to follow as Pompey, Crassus and the senior-most members of the senate strode confidently out the gate to face the crowds.

Pompey looked tired, but confident. Cicero had only glimpsed Pompey once or twice in years past, but the general had not changed much. His face was handsome beneath a curling shock of blonde hair, though the lines around his eyes began to finally hint at the passing years.

“People of Rome!” he called. “The leaders of the senate have granted me the honor of a triumph, and I am pleased to accept it!”

The crowd roared.

“They have also informed me that I will be allowed to stand for consul in the coming elections, and I am pleased to accept that, as well,” Pompey continued. “For I have dedicated my life to Rome’s service, and I will gladly answer the call to leadership.”

He paused.

“The only thing that pleases me more I that I will share the consulship with my colleague and old friend, Marcus Licinius Crassus!”

The roar increased as Crassus waved.

“I am humbled by your affection,” Pompey said, motioning for the crowd to calm itself, “and promise to serve as I always have – with the utmost loyalty and respect to the Senate and the People of Rome! And I pledge to hold a festival of games, dedicated to Hercules, to honor my victories in Spain, so that the people of Rome may share in the joy of my return!”

The roar of the crowd reached a crescendo, and was nearly deafening as Marcus Licinius Crassus stepped forward.

“People of Rome!” he called. “I thank my brother, Gnaeus Pompey Magnus, for his kind words, and now make my own pledge to the city I love! First, I will use a tenth of my fortune to buy food for all of Rome during the festival of Hercules planned by my co-consul, and for three months following, so that no man, woman or child in Rome will go hungry!”

Cicero leaned in to Quintus and I as the speeches ended.

“Brilliant,” he said. “Games from Pompey and free food from Crassus – the perfect combination for public happiness.”

“But a tenth of Crassus’ fortune?” Quintus asked. “That must be at least 40 million sesterces!”

Finally sensing his moment had come, Cicero strode forward.

“This is Cicero, Imperator,” Palicanus said, pushing my master toward Pompey. “He is considered one of Rome’s foremost advocates, and has been of great use to us in the senate!”

“Has he?” Pompey said, shaking Cicero’s hand, absently. “Well, keep up the good work.”

Cicero gripped the general’s hand longer, getting his attention.

“I shall, general,” he said, “for I hope next year to be aedile!”

“Aedile?” Pompey said, surprised. “No, no, I don’t think that will be possible. I have other plans in that direction.”

Pompey and the others started back inside, but the general turned back to a stricken Cicero as he walked.

“Don’t worry, my friend,” he said. “I’m sure we can find a use for you. There’s always a place for a good lawyer!”

And with that, Pompey moved on without a second glance, leaving Cicero standing, mouth agape and staring after him.

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brother-emperors · 7 months

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@illegible-scribble said: With the old concept of gods being able to inhabit/see through the eyes of their cult statues, it’s fun to think about Pompey lounging in his in the curia, looking down on Caesar as he bleeds out at/on his feet

screaming this is actually so funny to think about

#pompey: get fucked xoxo #gnaeus pompeius magnus #actually thinking about pompey's statue-ghost watching all of the political theater that's been going on since his death is top tier comedy #like. grade A entertainment. pompey @ everyone: oh you guys are a mess for real #komiks tag #roman republic tag #drawing tag #tris homines #beware! the ides of march!

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dykepulpfriction · 5 months

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pompey and cicero making out sloppy style in the senate. is this anything

#dykepulpfriction #my art #pompey #cicero #late roman republic #roman republic #roman history #old man yaoi #rome #ancient rome #gnaeus pompeius magnus #marcus tullius cicero #queer love #lmaooo

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theantonian · 7 months

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Brutus joins Pompey, the murderer of his father

"Upon the general separation into two factions, when, Pompey and Caesar taking up arms against one another, the whole empire was turned into confusion, it was commonly believed that he would take Caesar's side; for his father in past time had been put to death by Pompey. But he, thinking it his duty to prefer the interest of the public to his own private feelings, and judging Pompey's to be the better cause, took part with him; though formerly he used not so much as to salute or take any notice of Pompey, if he happened to meet him, esteeming it a pollution to have the least conversation with the murderer of his father. But now, looking upon him as the general of his country, he placed himself under his command, and set sail for Cilicia in quality of lieutenant to Sestius, who had the government of that province. But finding no opportunity there of doing any great service, and hearing that Pompey and Caesar were now near one another and preparing for the battle upon which all depended, he came of his own accord to Macedonia to partake in the danger. At his coming it is said that Pompey was so surprised and so pleased that, rising from his chair in the sight of all who were about him, he saluted and embraced him, as one of the chiefest of his party." ~Plutarch's Life of Brutus

#brutus #marcus brutus #marcus junius brutus #ancient rome #the conspirators #roman republic #roman history #roman empire #rome #gaius julius caesar #julius caesar #pompey #gnaeus pompeius magnus #plutarch #quotes #ides of march

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trans-marcus-brutus · 1 year

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Haha wow Michael posts art on tumblr for the first time in millennia have my messy Antony and Cleopatra doodles for no reason

#tagamemnon #classics tag #antony and cleopatra #shakespeare #artwork #Marcus antonius #cleopatra vii #gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus #Sextus Pompey #Octavius Caesar #my art #history #Shakespeare art #idfk #sketch

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uncleclaudius · 7 months

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28 September 48 BC: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, in English known generally as Pompey, was killed in Egypt.

Here is the modern reconstruction of what he could have possibly looked like based on one of his portraits.

#ancient rome #pompey #gnaeus pompeius magnus #first triumvirate #late roman republic #he looks nice #but they did use to call him the boy butcher

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catilinas · 6 months

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brutus’ brother in law (in law?) was gnaeus pompeius whose brother in law was faustus sulla whose sister cornelia sulla was married to mamercus aemilius lepidus who was the uncle of cato who was the uncle of brutus

#cobwebs #and then cornelia sulla and mamercus aemilius lepidus’ daughter aemilia lepida was a) originally engaged to cato #and b) the mother of cornelia metella. who married pompey. whose son gnaeus was #wait #gnaeus pompeius’ sister in law (cornelia sulla) was also his stepmother’s grandmother??????#have i got that right. hrgh #and then cornelia sulla also sued her own son that one time #beeps

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jackass-noir · 2 years

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rip pompey u will be missed :’(

#more advanced latin memes #this part was rly profound but it did use an ablative of separation so i had to #lucanposting #pharsalia #bellum civile #jackassery #tagamemnon #lucan #gnaeus pompeius magnus #pompey the great #latin memes #ablative memes

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garland-on-thy-brow · 7 months

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Starting a collection.

[1, 2]

#gnaeus pompeius magnus #pompey the eel

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duxfemina · 2 months

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So do y'all wanna see my mental fan cast for the Pompeians as I write my books? Because that's what I feel like sharing tonight

Daddy Pompey aka Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus just with more auburn hued hair because we all know Pompeius has that ginger blond Alexander vibe going but like Lee Pace has the PERFECT chin and mouth to be Pompeius. Go look at Pompey's statues and imagine him as a younger man and you'll see it

Mucia Tertia mother of all three of Pompeius' children and such a force that not only did she raise them mostly by herself while he was at war but when her son is warring with the triumvirate they send her to talk with Sextus. She has the tragedy of outliving her ex-husband and her two sons. (Yes she's ginger too because I know my genetics and gotta keep that ginger blood strong so Pompeia can look just like grandad for plot purposes)

Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius the sexy pirate king of Sicily. I will admit that this is mainly inspired by Hayden as RotS Anakin having the right color of hair and also the youthfulness. Sextus was stupidly young when he started kicking ass, just like his dad. Unfortunately for world history he lived an even shorter amount of time than his dad and was dead by 32 much like his dad's honorific namesake Alexander the Great

Fatherless by age six I have a whole story in my head that I've invented for Pompeia Magna daughter of Sextus and believe me it's not cheerful because what is in the Roman world. But she does have one true friend and he happens to be someone who is the most ride or die guy in Rome and will one day be the most powerful man in the empire

Tiberius Claudius Nero who has known Pompeia since they were toddlers together on Sicily when her father Sextus gave his parents refuge from Augustus' proscriptions. Yes Tiberius was a hottie. Fight me on this. Plus Cavill fits the Tiberius mould in the sense that everyone sees big hunky warrior but at heart they're just an absolute nerd. How Cavill is about video games would be Tiberius with Homer or something

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shcherbatskya · 2 years

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words with gn together make me sooo uncomfortable i hope they all die

#my enemy gnaeus pompeianus aka pompey my beloathed because of that....#samael speaks

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brother-emperors · 8 months

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TRY AGAIN LATER

it's like. well. its several things.

(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)

and also this

(ibid.)

that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.

anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—

it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it

and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard

(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.

#marcus licinius crassus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #tris homines #komiks tag #roman republic tag #drawing tag #its about how many ways i can create situations where i have crassus call pompey a brat #the subtext going on here is that pompey and sulla are in the middle of their political falling out #and pompey is like. okay motherfucker. and crassus is something that sulla had under his hand #but uhhhhhh. its not going that well for pompey. because sulla got there first #and left his mark #dont worry tho pompey you'll get him in the end. your descendants are going to marry each other #and name two of their sons directly after both of you!! fucking wild. LOVE it #can't get much closer than that! altho pompey did try something when he married publius crassus' widow #crassus himself however holds true to his statement of 'no one is ever going to touch me ever again.'#he's like. not alive right either so it'd be hard to pin him down anyway #too haunted. your ghosts your dead your ancestors have escaped your family house buddy

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dykepulpfriction · 5 months

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fuck it. pompey doodles

#dykepulpfriction #dykepulpfriction art #art #my art #tagamemnon #pompey #roman republic #ancient rome #gnaeus pompeius magnus #rome #romeposting #late roman republic #ancient history #doodles #shitpost

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theantonian · 7 months

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Pompey the Great assassinated, September 28th, 48 BC

Upon landing in Egypt, Roman general and politician Pompey is murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt.

During his long career, Pompey the Great displayed exceptional military talents on the battlefield. He fought in Africa and Spain, quelled the slave revolt of Spartacus, cleared the Mediterranean of pirates, and conquered Armenia, Syria and Palestine. Appointed to organize the newly won Roman territories in the East, he proved a brilliant administrator.

In 60 B.C., he joined with his rivals Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus to form the First Triumvirate, and together the trio ruled Rome for seven years. Caesar’s successes aroused Pompey’s jealousy, however, leading to the collapse of the political alliance in 53 B.C. The Roman Senate supported Pompey and asked Caesar to give up his army, which he refused to do. In January 49 B.C., Caesar led his legions across the Rubicon River from Cisalpine Gaul to Italy, thus declaring war against Pompey and his forces.

Caesar made early gains in the subsequent civil war, defeating Pompey’s army in Italy and Spain, but he was later forced into retreat in Greece. In August 48 B.C., with Pompey in pursuit, Caesar paused near Pharsalus, setting up camp at a strategic location. When Pompey’s senatorial forces fell upon Caesar’s smaller army, they were entirely routed, and Pompey fled to Egypt.

Pompey hoped that King Ptolemy, his former client, would assist him, but the Egyptian king feared offending the victorious Caesar. On September 28, Pompey was invited to leave his ships and come ashore at Pelusium. As he prepared to step onto Egyptian soil, he was treacherously struck down and killed by an officer of Ptolemy.

#pompey #pompey magnus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #first triumvirate #ptolemaic egypt #rome #ancient rome #roman republic #roman history #roman empire #julius caesar #gaius julius caesar #pompey the great #history #ancient history

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greekmythcomix · 9 months

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Roman History Chickens 2:

The First Tri-HEN-virate

Marcus Licinius Crassus (CRAW-sus)

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) (POULTRY the Great)

Gaius Julius Caesar aka CHICKEN CAESAR

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