#that's supposed to be a partial homage to old hollywood epics. like. absolutely cringe worthy and visually Ugh

[brother-emperors]

a pair of scenes out of The Comic™ that had to get cut: Cassius doing his best impression of Cassandra with the foreshadowing re: Publius raising his hand over his face to block out the sun and later Publius taking an arrow to that exact hand at Carrhae

I ended up scrapping it because there was an underlying dialogue in the second scene where Octavius asks Cassius what he’s seeing, and the thing is, Cassius is too far away to actually see when Publius gets hit, and originally I wrote it in because of Cassius and his thematic eye sight out of Shakespeare, but this comic isn’t about that and keeping it in would have just too many underlying implied themes going on.

that said, I’m still kind of fond of it, so here we go!

Plutarch’s Crassus

Cassius and Brutus: the Memory of the Liberators, E. Rawson (there’s a very fun counter argument that Cassius should actually be compared to Tiresias instead, but I went with Cassandra)

The Cassandra Scene in Aeschylus’ ‘Agamemnon,’ Seth L. Schein

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