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I’ve been reading up on italian renaissance conspiracies again and every time brutus (and cassius by extension) gets mentioned as an ideal or representation, I start hollering in the stands like it’s football and my team just scored.

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painting inspirations

Aeneas defeats Turnus, Luca Giordano / The Combat between Aeneas and Turnus, Aureliano Milani / Destruction, Thomas Cole /The Spoliarium, Juan Luna

detail shots!

There they could have lived in tents, a step up from the open air of the mountain. Glaber’s praetorium was now Spartacus’s headquarters, perhaps shared with Crixus. It ought to have been a busy place.

The Spartacus War, Barry Strauss

you know how it goes: you fight with your dearest, sweetest of friends about the praetorship, kiss and make up, and then make plans to kill a tyrant

lovers, tyrant killers, the pattern of the story is the same

alcibiades and chalcideus because donald kagan wrote an extremely fun paragraph about them that I keep thinking about

[...] no later source, not even Plutarch, has anything to say about the family tradition of the Cassii, less ancient and august than that of the Iunii Bruti, but perhaps providing almost equal pressure towards tyrannicide [Elizabeth Rawson]

or: the game was rigged from the start

style test of a scene between cassius and decimus out of a conspiracy focused script I’ve been writing in my spare time ✨