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Yes, I would definately agree with you aemillianus
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You could always consider doing the final "glory" of the Republic with the Triumvirate:
Crassus (victor over Spartacus)
Pompey (victor over Mithradates, Tigranes the Great, etc)
Caesar
Seems like it oculd make for a quite interesting set of contrasting personalities.
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Actually, 'the Triumvirate' was actually the Young Caesar (later Augustus), Anthony and Lepidus. Caesar, Pompey and Crassus never formed themselves into a three man committee to change the state in the way that Caesar's heir and his partners did.
In fact, Pompey and Crassus could hardly stand each other and simply acted together for Caesar's benefit because it was politically expedient for them to do so. Both had had their careers advanced by Sulla and Caesar had set himself up early in his career in opposition to the Sullans who formed the majority of the senate following Sulla's rebuilding of the senate's depleted numbers with men of his own choosing.
Therefore, referring to Caesar, Pompey and Crassus as a triumvirate, although routinely done, is not technically correct.
As to the proposal though, I agree - contrasting the three could be quite interesting as an artistic proposition.
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The one where he murders close family members...fits the bill in my book! :wink:
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Didn't he also have his son Crispus executed, possibly because of a plot on Fausta's part (Zosimus again)?
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Hmm, obvious Romulus and Remus, Mucius Scaevola, Cincinatus and ofcourse Lucius Sergius Catilina, my favourite by far (with special mentiones to Scipio Africanus and Caius Marius)
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Quote:Didn't he also have his son Crispus executed, possibly because of a plot on Fausta's part (Zosimus again)?
He had Crispus executed because Fausta's accused him of making advances at her allegedly (she was his stepmother), and Constantine flipped out and gave orders to have Crispus executed, by the time Constantine's mother (being Crispus' grandmother) put some reason into Constantine's head, it was too late and the orders to execute Crispus were already carried out.
It was at this time when he was certain that Fausta had fooled him, that he had her executed. He also had his brother in law executed after he resigned him of duty, as well as his nephew.
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