From AlanD - Pompey the Great's Hubris [Death Star] (30 points)

 Paul OG and I have been working for a while on a Roman Civil War project for Infamy! Infamy!, set around the lead up to the battle of Pharsalus in 48BC. Paul has been working on the hard-bitten veterans of Julius Caesar, while my army is the colourful, multi-cultural and not terribly good force led by Pompey the Great.

Inspired by the 'Hubris' theme of the Death Star, I finally painted the man himself, from the Warlord pack containing Pompey and Crassus.

Pompey certainly fits the definition of hubris, despite the dominant tradition amongst ancient authors to depict him as some sort of noble victim of treachery. The guy was a monster, earning the nickname of 'the teenage butcher' when he first used military force to gain the attention of Sulla in his civil war with the Marians. As a great example of his hubris, Pompey pushed Sulla to grant him a triumph in 79BC, meeting Sulla's objections that he was way too young with the comment that 'more people worship the rising sun than the setting'. He even attempted to use elephants to draw his chariot in the triumph, but they didn't fit through the gate into Rome. I would have liked to have seen that.

The Pompey here is older, paying the consequences of his hubris in underestimating Caesar and embroiled in a civil war that will cost him his life. 

Nice work, Dux, with your usual lovely basing. I've always wanted to know more about the Roman Civil War and have been enjoying the Cicero series of novels by Robert Harris. I get the impression neither Pompey or Caesar were likeable...

Barks