Historical figures that deserved better

>he literally did nothing wrong
Pompey : Caesar = Anthony : Augustus
Pompey tried and managed (for a time) to obtain complete extralegal control of the republic. Just like Anthony, he wasn't good enough to do this on his own, so he needed junior partners (Caesar and Crassus). One of them proved much too good to be handled, so he took power on his own. The exact same shit as happened with Anthony and Augustus.

Cato was a moron tho. He was just an extremely self righteous and self entitled drunkard whose only merit was empty idealism before common sense.
Cicero was a great politician, but even before Caesar, politics alone were never enough to appropriately police the republic.

Hence why the two trios are called the 1st and 2nd Triumvirate

Tho really Lepidus was such a non entity compared to Crassus you might as well go with triumvirate and duumvirate instead.

>Pompey
>Also known as "Pompey The Butcher" before giving himself the title of "The Great"
>Glory hound who stole credit from Crassus and others
>Deserved better

>Crassus and others
Usually people point at the triumphs he stole from Metellus and Lucullus before pointing to the slave revolt shitshow. Not that you're wrong in saying he stole Crassus' thunder either.

youve been reading too much shakespeare

Why? Unlike Crassus, who held equal power by virtue of his sway over the legions (due to the agrarian law that Caesar proposed), Lepidus was basically a jumped up provincial governor, that both Anthony and Augustus proved to be able to tame easily due to his lack of military influence (his troops deserted him both times he faced the other triumvirs).
Hell he literally revolted because he thought he was being treated as a subordinate by Augustus (who was considered "junior" to Anthony himself).

Charles I. Nice, devoted and pious man who loved his family and was a patron of the arts. The final reforms that set off the Civil War had no constitutional basis, basically he got screwed by salty Puritans

>HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME

>known as "Pompey The Butcher"

Why?

>Glory hound who stole credit from Crassus and others
How?

Please explain, my knowledge of this period doesn't go beyond common culture and pop history.

>tfw you're Lepidus

>Why?
Because he killed prisoners to whom he had personal obligations during the sullan civil war, which was something very much frowned upon in the clientele based roman society.
He was also apparently rather brutal in battle, sacking italian cities, crucifixing the prisoners of the slave rebellion, etc. but this wasn't really all that uncommon at the time.
>How?
He literally went to the help of victorious generals and claimed he won the war by himself.
He did it with Metellus Pius, after he defeated Sertorius in Spain.
He did it with Crassus, after he defeated Spartacus in Italy.
He did it with Lucullus, after he defeated Mithridates in Anatolia.
Also the pirate hunting operation was a big political farce, the entirety of the repubblican navy was like a battlehammer to the pirate's egg. He did that specifically to get extraconsular control of a very big part of the republic's military.

Pompey Strabo, his father was the one called "The Butcher", due to his reputation for cruelty.
Even his own soldiers hated him.
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