rewatching HBO's Rome. (which is awesome). Query: does the Roman Empire look any different if Pompey wins? Discuss
For me, the biggest thing here is taking Octavian out of the picture. Pompey seems to me to have lacked a vision for the future of the Roman state even moreso than Sulla. And I don't see that vision emerging from Gnaeus or Sextus.
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It's possible that Cicero ends up in a position to 'manage' a Pompey Republic, but that strikes me as unlikely. But the Republic desperately needed someone to short-circuit the cycle of private armies, rogue generals, senatorial intransigence and so on.
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Pompey, for sure, isn't the guy with the political understanding to see his way through that. Without an Octavian in the wings, it seems to me that what you get is another 'pause' - perhaps a decade, but perhaps with Antony/Lepidus and other Caesarians lurking in Gaul...
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