rewatching HBO's Rome. (which is awesome). Query: does the Roman Empire look any different if Pompey wins? Discuss
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So I suppose I don't think Pompey or his kids had the political genius to set up the empire. Consequently, I think Pompey winning raises the chance of the Roman state just disintegrating (like Alexander's empire) in civil war after civil war.
The one person we know is thinking hard about how to fix that problem is Cicero, but frankly a reading of his works on the topic doesn't inspire confidence that he had a solution. And I don't see how he would have been in a position to implement it in this case.
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For me the maybe more interesting counter-factual is "Hirtius and/or Pansa survive Mutina." That means the Senate has an army, Octavian pretty much doesn't - consequently the Liberatores probably win. Then it becomes a question - Cicero, Brutus, Cassius...
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...did any of them have enough of an idea about what was wrong with the Republic to fix it before the next private army / rogue general civ-mil collapse cycle started. My guess is 'no' - but it's not a hard no. Maybe?
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