Pompey
Sign in to saveGnaeus Pompeius Magnus (; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey ( ) or Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and statesman who was prominent in the last decades of the Roman Republic. As a young man, he was a partisan and protégé of the dictator Sulla, after whose death he achieved much military and political success himself.
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Pompey the Great was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the first century BC who rose to power as a follower of the dictator Sulla and went on to achieve significant military and political success in his own right. He matters historically because he was a major political figure during the final decades of the Roman Republic, a period of crucial transformation in Roman history.
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- 0106-00-00
- Died
- 0048-00-00
- Works
- 21
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Pompey is Rowan Mcnaught, since 2003. He lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. All records can be downloaded from www.pocketclock.org. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/pompey">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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21 sectionsContents
- Early life and career
- Pompey during Sulla's civil war
- Sicily, Africa and Lepidus' rebellion
- Sertorian War
- First consulship
- Campaign against the pirates
- Third Mithridatic War and re-organisation of the east
- Third Mithridatic War
- Re-organisation of the East
- Return to Rome and the First Triumvirate
- From confrontation to civil war
- The Road to Pharsalus
- Death
- Marriages and issue
- Generalship
- Literary heritage
- Chronology of Pompey's life and career
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey ( ) or Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and statesman who was prominent in the last decades of the Roman Republic. As a young man, he was a partisan and protégé of the dictator Sulla, after whose death he achieved much military and political success himself.
A member of the senatorial nobility, Pompey entered into a military career while still young. He rose to prominence serving Sulla as a commander in the civil war of 83–81 BC. Pompey's success as a general while young enabled him to advance directly to his first consulship without following the traditional cursus honorum (the required steps to advance in a political career). He was elected as consul on three occasions (70, 55, 52 BC). He celebrated three triumphs, served as a commander in the Sertorian War, the Third Servile War, the Third Mithridatic War, and in various other military campaigns. Pompey's early success led dictator Sulla to give him the cognomen Magnus – "the Great" – after his boyhood hero Alexander the Great. His adversaries gave him the nickname adulescentulus carnifex ("teenage butcher") for his ruthlessness.
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