#Crassus-Pompey worked bc it was it was moving forward from sulla. Crassus-Caesar worked because Sulla had his hands in Crassus

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There's something to me about how Pompey is said to have been nice to his wives, and how he also somehow gained two wife-coded political colleagues

I actually think that Pompey was wife-coded, not Caesar! Caesar gets a lot of heat over the Queen of Bithnyia allegations, but he never actually fulfills the role of a Roman politician's wife within the Tris Homines, although he DOES fill the role of a courtesan when the dominant political power at play was Crassus-Pompey

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

like all of this

Pompey the Great, Robin Seager

smacks of the same kind of skilled networking as this

Plutarch, Lucullus

like, if the whole of Rome is a political house, Crassus is wife-coded for sure because he's consistently the leading domestic politician out of the two, and pretty consistently remains in Rome once he's established himself with Pompey

The Political Role of Women of the Roman Elite, with Particular Attention to the Autonomy and Influence of the Julio-Claudian Women (44 BCE to CE68), Ilona Zager

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

and when he dies and Caesar and Pompey become the leading powers in Rome, Pompey is the one who stays IN Rome and is trusted with the well being of the house, so to speak, but with considerably less success than Crassus had at balancing everything out (the grading rubric: gang warfare is fine, civil war is catastrophic failure)

Plutarch, Pompey

the main difference between Crassus and Pompey is that Crassus preferred to stay in Rome and Pompey was not cut out for (gestures vaguely) all of that

#another thing that's fun about caesar is that he has sulla comparisons going on so it's like. crassus and pompey never really #uhhhhhh escaped the shadow of sulla. in crassus' case it's more like he went BACK to sulla via caesar #because he has the first connection to caesar. pompey comes later #and with pompey there was that whole 'rising-setting sun' theme between him and sulla. only in the end. the newer better sulla came out #winning. so the rising sun gave way to what was previously the setting sun. or something like that. its a circle! #Crassus-Pompey worked bc it was it was moving forward from sulla. Crassus-Caesar worked because Sulla had his hands in Crassus #in some kind of way. Caesar-Pompey on their own was doomed because now It's About The Ghost Of Sulla Eating You #ask tag