rewatching HBO's Rome. (which is awesome). Query: does the Roman Empire look any different if Pompey wins? Discuss
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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.
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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This sounds like a really awesome ACOUP post in the making, tbh. Maybe tie in the historian's take on alt-hist, and/or how we evaluate the importance of individuals given that controlled trials are impossible.
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