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Started by Admiral Yi, June 17, 2013, 07:12:41 PM

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Julius Caesar or Pompey/The Senate?

Julius Caesar
16 (59.3%)
Pompey
8 (29.6%)
Jaronicus Minimus
3 (11.1%)

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Admiral Yi

June 17, 2013, 07:12:41 PM
Been a while.  Reading a nice book that covers the Classic Age, defined as Homer to Hadrian.

Razgovory

#1
June 17, 2013, 07:16:01 PM
Man the Simpson have been on for a long time.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Kleves

#2
June 17, 2013, 07:20:40 PM
Caesar. What's the book you're reading, Yi?
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Eddie Teach

#3
June 17, 2013, 07:20:53 PM
The Man of the People
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Admiral Yi

#4
June 17, 2013, 07:25:02 PM
Quote from: Kleves on June 17, 2013, 07:20:40 PM
Caesar. What's the book you're reading, Yi?

Book's upstairs.  Check back tomorrow.  :)

Scipio

#6
June 17, 2013, 07:32:52 PM
Seriously?  Someone voted Pompey?
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
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Ed Anger

#7
June 17, 2013, 07:34:08 PM
My heart is with the savior of the Republic. Sulla.
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Admiral Yi

#8
June 17, 2013, 07:34:37 PM
Quote from: Scipio on June 17, 2013, 07:32:52 PM
Seriously?  Someone voted Pompey?

It's not a wingnut choice.  The Republic and all that.

jimmy olsen

#9
June 17, 2013, 07:36:37 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2013, 07:12:41 PM
Been a while.  Reading a nice book that covers the Classic Age, defined as Homer to Hadrian.
What's the argument for it ending with Hadrian?
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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Admiral Yi

#10
June 17, 2013, 07:44:49 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 17, 2013, 07:36:37 PM
What's the argument for it ending with Hadrian?
Not sure.  Maybe the end of conquest and the stabilization of the borders?

Camerus

#11
June 17, 2013, 08:05:36 PM
The Republic had by then become so wildly dysfunctional that of the two choices, I root for Caesar.

PRC

#12
June 17, 2013, 08:22:21 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2013, 07:34:37 PM
Quote from: Scipio on June 17, 2013, 07:32:52 PM
Seriously?  Someone voted Pompey?

It's not a wingnut choice.  The Republic and all that.

If Caesar had lived he would certainly never have never relinquished authority but perhaps his reforms would have saved the Republic in the long run... or not if Octavius would always be heir. 

MadImmortalMan

#13
June 17, 2013, 08:35:13 PM
We don't know what Pompey would have really done, so there is a vote of optimism inherent in picking him. He might have restored the Republic. We know Caesar didn't.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Eddie Teach

#14
June 17, 2013, 08:37:07 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 17, 2013, 08:35:13 PM
We don't know what Pompey would have really done, so there is a vote of optimism inherent in picking him. He might have restored the Republic. We know Caesar didn't.

Caesar might have civilized the Mideast.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?
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