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