Sextus Pompeius

Author(s)

• Powell, Anton
• Welch, Kathryn
• Gowing, Alain M.

Bibliographic Information

Sextus Pompeius

editors Anton Powell and Kathryn Welch ; contributors Alain M. Gowing ... [et al.]

Classical Press of Wales , Duckworth, 2002

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The son of Pompey the Great casts a long shadow. Acclaimed by the Roman populace in his lifetime, his traditional virtues and military successes put to shame his civil-war rival Octavian. After his death, he was passionately and safely abused by Octavian and poets as a marginal nuisance, a pirate. The image of a 'second rank' figure has been propagated into recent times by Syme and Zanker. But extensive ancient evidence makes possible a very different story. Here seven new studies from an international cast reconstruct a figure whose actions and image shaped not just the civil war period but the character of the early Principate.

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Details

• NCID: BA59627858
• ISBN:
  • 0715631276
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Swansea,London
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 285 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 937.05092
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Pompeius Magnus Pius, Sextus, ca. 67-35 B.C
  • LCSH : Generals -- Rome
  • LCSH : Statesmen -- Rome
  • LCSH : Rome -- History -- 53-44 B.C
  • LCSH : Rome -- History -- Civil War, 43-31 B.C
  • LCSH : Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C