rewatching HBO's Rome. (which is awesome). Query: does the Roman Empire look any different if Pompey wins? Discuss
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I really do think Octavian is one of those figures where it is hard to overstate his influence. Sulla, Caesar, Cicero and Pompey really demonstrate the degree to which traditional Roman elite thinking was not well suited to reforming broken systems of government.
If there was a problem in the Republic, they generally assumed it was a problem of bad apples. But we can see pretty clearly that the system was broken. Octavian strikes me as the only figure of the period who had the ability and inclination to manage reform to the system.
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Both in the sense of having at least some understanding of what was broken, but also in a willingness to play the optics of fixing the system while *pretending* to restore the old system (a game that Uncle Julius wasn't willing or able to play).
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It strikes me as worth noting how many Roman aristocrats dominated this system at one moment or other but failed to fix it - Marius (102/1), Sulla (82-79), Pompey 63-1), Caesar (48-44). Even Antony in the aftermath of Philippi where he is clearly the senior member of the 3vir.
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