#i was reading smth about how sulla's treatment of crassus and pompey creates the rivalry that plutarch spends most of his | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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Could we get more thoughts on the possessiveness of your version of Pompey please?

a lot of it has to do with wanting everything sulla had and more, and crassus is at that very fun intersection of something sulla had and more. so naturally. he wants crassus in every way sulla had him, and in every way sulla did not. and he'll never get crassus coming to him (like crassus went to sulla) but he can get something else that is more valuable on this stage of politics: a partner.

crassus' own attitude is complementary to pompey's, since he decided to be co consuls with pompey! more than once! in a way, crassus bet his life on pompey. wow.

#there's sulla's position in power being founded on crassus' military success under his command #and there's pompey who was not legal for the consulship but managed to get in on it anyway with crassus #ask tag #anyway i dont even mean it in a totally romantic sense but sulla is very much the meeting point for both of them #i was reading smth about how sulla's treatment of crassus and pompey creates the rivalry that plutarch spends most of his #biography on crassus focusing on and i was like. oh! wow. okay!!#its true! you get a much clearer glimpse of crassus' actions in other biographies or in cicero's letters but in crassus' biography #it's still very much. hmmmmmm. something else is going on in there #anyway im getting off topic. there's a secret other thing that they both want from each other but they can't say it aloud

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