Pompey is destined to be a tragic figure. In my opinion, he just wanted to replace Caesar for the sake of face. As a result, his plan failed, causing his friends to turn against each other. He was not fully prepared before the war, and gave up the city of Rome. An army twice as large as Caesar's was defeated in Greece and fled to Egypt to be killed. In addition to the failure of the strategy, God also contributed to the death of Pompey. At first, I admired Brutus. If it wasn’t hereditary, Caesar’s throne would have been his, but one move was wrong with Pompey. Although he was pardoned by Caesar, he would not be fully trusted and he would not even have the same status. Anthony, the swingman,
What most impressed me about Caesar was the so-called reform of Rome after the civil war, which advocated the establishment of a republic and the abolition of class distinctions between nobles, commoners, and slaves. But no matter how great you are, you cannot escape the ruler's dictatorship. Killings by opposition, distrust of friends, placement of veterans, slave trade issues. The mistake that should have been made is still a lingering one. This is why so-called people can not always avoid their own desires and weaknesses.
Octavian is a very interesting character. I think he is a typical schizophrenic, submissive in front of his mother, unbearable to use. But sometimes the situation of war is better than Caesar. Like the truce, Caesar's self-righteous truce turned out to provide time for Pompey to assemble his army. In this case, he deserves to be the king of Rome. My favorite character in the entire series, Pullo, is the closest thing to an idealistic character, alluding to the inability of ordinary people in the Roman Empire to control their own future destiny. That bloody arena represented the indictment of Roman warriors against the entire Roman Empire.
Thinking of what Mr. Qian Mu said, any system has its own time and region, and we cannot judge its historical correctness with a contemporary opinion arising from the current environment. Only then can it become the opinion of the times, and then it can become the opinion of history. We value these historical opinions at this moment in the same way that we value the opinions of our own time.
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