Lucius Vibullius Rufus, Pompey's Majordomo 49-48 BCE

During the first year and a half of or so of Caesar's Civil War, Pompey had a fixer who represented his interests loyally and capably. Vibullius was an expert in military engineering and seems to have also been politically adept. However, as we shall see, he had the misfortune of only participating in failed endeavors.
Patreon link: / thersites
PayPal link: paypal.me/thersites
Spirit of Thersites (Politics Channel): / @spiritofthersites7578
WTFGAS Podcast (Entertainment Channel): / @wtfgaspodcast729
Discord: / discord
Brave Browser: brave.com/noa557
Twitter link: / thersitesathens
Minds.com link: www.minds.com/...
Steemit/dtube link: steemit.com/@t...
BitChute: www.bitchute.c...

[@theletterw3875]

Legs Spinther is exactly the kind of name that would inspire desertions

[@mukathompson7490]

A thersites upload makes all our days 😊

[@Mitch93]

A most fabulous opening jpeg.

[@darrylforsythe8924]

A good day today thersites uploaded

[@Casmaniac]

Best series on youtube !

[@samswift102]

Always love your lecture-style videos man! Keep it up!

[@justinogle150]

i for one am glad to see all the thersities uploads

[@billychops1280]

Hey Thersites, I got a question which is slightly off topic, but why do u think Caesar never bothered to have a son (besides his son with Cleopatra) or any other children for that mater, only ever having 1 daughter, you’d think that a proud Roman aristocrat would want his Bloodline to continue.

[@ThersitestheHistorian]

I actually have no idea. He had at least three wives, so I assume that he may have had some trouble conceiving children. He did have some younger male relatives, such as Antony and his brothers, his nephew Q. Pedius, L. Julius Caesar, and S. Julius Caesar. Perhaps he thought that one of them would be a worthy heir to adopt. In the end, he went with his grand-nephew Octavian.

[@billychops1280]

@@ThersitestheHistorian yeah I always found it so weird that he never really went for it, some figures in history have gone crazy trying to get a male heir, but it seems most Roman’s were ok with Distant relatives or nephews and grandnephews being there heirs was alright, but also it seems like it’s happed a few times that the presumed heir of a Roman patriarch dies before him causing trouble, like with the Fabii brothers (I think). Where the older 2 sons got adopted into other families and the 2 younger sons ended up dying soon after

[@kaloarepo288]

It's often not your choice! Look at what happened to Henry VIII - he tried and tried but only got daughters and one son who died young(Edward VI)

[@billychops1280]

@@kaloarepo288 yeah that was exactly who I was referring to when bringing up powerful men going above and beyond to have a son

[@kaloarepo288]

@@billychops1280 Depended on the country and the culture - some areas allowed women to succeed to the throne if there were no sons -England was such a one when Henry VIII's daughter Mary became the monarch and then the other daughter Elizabeth. However in countries where the Salic law applied this was never allowed so that there were never ever any reigning queens of France. The Salic law also applied in the Holy Roman empire (basically Germany and northern Italy) but when the emperor Charles VI had no sons he passed a law called the Pragmatic Sanction which allowed his daughter Maria Theresa to succeed him. The other rulers of Europe agreed at first but then reneged and we had the War of the Austrian Succession that later morphed into the 7 years War -called the French and Indian Wars in the USA which saw Britain gaining Canada from the French.

[@alanpennie]

To defend Pompey's character he was a boy who butchered people not someone who butchered boys.
It's clearer in Latin.

[@phonecallsarejustoverquali1556]

Kenneth Cranham did Pompey very well, I think. But the as-portrayed-on-screen age difference (technically not that different from the historic one) between him and Cieran Hinds made it look "new order" vs the "old guard" in a different way from what I assume their contemporaries saw it. Obviously Romans of that era were super attentive to new versus old when it came to claims to power, but just not that way. If that makes sense?

[@ThersitestheHistorian]

I get what you're saying. Caesar came across as having more left in the tank and that is partly why some of the younger men in Rome, such as Caelius, predicted that he would win and cast in their lot with him.

[@phonecallsarejustoverquali1556]

@@ThersitestheHistorian Thank you for taking the time to reply, and thank you in general for all the good videos.

[@stevenpartin9208]

Im reading Arthur D Kahn's book on Ceasar now. It is very compelling. 22:10

[@MarkVrem]

Mejoberries

[@beepboop204]

is sanchuniathon out there? i miss you

[@henkstersmacro-world]

👍👍👍

[@countdowntorevolution9986]

ok