#snompey

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making the ‘pompey delight’ (creation of @thempyrealexicon and @consulships)

ingredients: strawberry jam, baileys, milk (optional), vanilla extract, a scoop of birthday cake ice cream, icing, mini marshmallows, rainbow sprinkles, severed head garnish

‘it’s just not good’

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‘i’m pompey magnus’ said pompey magnus. and then he pomped all over the place

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drops my pompey on the ground and he splatters into pulp

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iliad 22 trans. wilson. i am correct in thinking lucan had andromache mourning hector in mind when writing cornelia mourning pompey in pharsalia 8+9. ESPECIALLY this bit of book 9

and pompey as hector post-aeneid is like. a lot. although severed head-wise he is priam and also his whole alexander the great imitation thing (which lucan Avoids. or at least doesn’t hype up because he doesn’t like alexander the great lol) makes him (and caesar) also achilles adjacent via alexander’s achilles imitation. yay

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(plutarch pomp. 14.3 trans. perrin / pharsalia 8.158-61 trans. wilson joyce)

this could mean nothing

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pharsalia 2.596-7 trans. wilson joyce.

pompey’s (cringe) speech met with silence and fear vs caesar’s evil civil war speech in bk1 met with his soldiers immediately volunteering patricide is. something. but i’m thinking about this in comparison w a) pompey being introduced in bk1 as loving the applause in his own theatre and b) pompey’s dream about his theatre the night before pharsalus in bk7. like he can’t remember how to go back to the theatre of war

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gnaeus pompeius ‘big boy’ magnus

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yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (pharsalia 8.503-5 trans. wilson joyce)