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Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus

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120 MINUTES
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Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus

Life of Pompey Part 3 of 3: Pompey's final rise to the heights of Roman power, his war with his friend Julius Caesar, and his final downfall.

People:

(M. Tullius) Cicero

(Titus Pomponius) Atticus

C. Julius Caesar

Cn. Pompeius Magnus (Pompey)

Julia, Caesar's Daughter

(M. Licinius) Crassus

(L. Domitius) Ahenobarbus - Optimate Stalwart (Cos. 54)

(M. Porcius) Cato "The Younger" - the Stoic

(M. Calpurnius) Bibulus - Cos. 59

P. Clodius Pulcher - Populist Thug lord

(T. Annius) Milo - Pompey's Thug lord

M. Caelius (Rufus) - Cicero's young political analyst friend

Publius Licinius Crassus - The Richest Man's Son

Cornelia - Pompey's final wife

(Q. Caecilius) Metellus (Pius) Scipio - Pompey's new Father in Law

Aulus Gabinius - Pompey's friend, exiled after Egyptian expedition

Ptolemy XII Auletes ("The Piper") - exiled king of Egypt

(C. Scribonius) Curio - Optimate turncoat, Caesar's tribune

M. Antonius (Mark Antony)

M. Claudius Marcellus - Optimate stalwart (Cos 51)

C. Claudius Marcellus - Optimate stalwart (Cos. 50, cousin of Cos. 51)

M. Favonius - "Stamp, Pompey!" Senator

Themistocles - Athenian statesman

Camillus - 4th c. BC Roman statesman

T. Labienus - Caesar's general, deserted to Pompey

(M. Junius) Brutus - Future Conspirator

Theophanes of Mytilene - the Historian

Crassianus - Caesar's centurion at Pharsalus

Cratippus of Pergamon - Philosopher at Mytilene

Ptolemy XIII - Boy king of Egypt

Potheinus - Ptolemy XIII's Eunuch

Achillas - Ptolemy XIII's General

Theodotus - Ptolemy XIII's Rhetoric Teacher

Philippus - Pompey's freedman


Places:

The Roman Forum

The Tiber River

Parthia

Carrhae (Battle of) - in Mesopotamia (Parthian Empire)

Gaul (Mod. France)

Pompey's Theater ("Temple of Venus")

Alesia (Battle of) - in Gaul

Naples (Neapolis)

Ravenna (N. Italy, "Cisalpine Gaul" then)

Rubicon River

Ariminum (Rimini)

Corfinium - Italian town in the Apennines

Brundisium - Eastern Port in Italy

Dyrrhachium (Mod. Durrës) - in Epirus (Rom. province of Macedonia)

Thessaly - large plain in central Greece

Pharsalus - town in Thessaly

Tempē - Valley in Thessaly

Mytilene - City on island of Lesbos


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Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus
April 30, 2024
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