The first-century-BCE Roman statesman and commander Pompey the Great was married five times. These marriages were not only romantic matches, but political...
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politician and general from the late Republic (1st century BC). Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was the elder son of Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) by...
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to Pompey in April 59 BC, with whom Caesar sought a strong political alliance in forming the First Triumvirate. This family-alliance of its two great chiefs...
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English as Pompey (/ˈpɒmpi/ POM-pee) or Pompey the Great, was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic. He played a significant role in the transformation...
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Mucia Tertia (category Wives of Pompey)
"The Five Wives of Pompey the Great". Greece and Rome. 32 (1): 49–59. JSTOR 642299. Tanner, Jeremy (2000). "Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late...
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Shelley Haley (category University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni)
"The Five Wives of Pompey the Great". Greece and Rome 32, no. 1 (1985): 49–59. "Archias, Theophanes, and Cicero: The Politics of the Pro Archia". The Classical...
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and the first of the five wives of Gnaeus Pompeius, later known as Pompey the Great. Little is known of Antistia outside her marriage to Pompey. She...
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Mithridates VI Eupator (redirect from Mithridates the Great)
Ptolemy of Cyprus.[citation needed] In 63 BC, when the Kingdom of Pontus was annexed by the Roman general Pompey, the remaining sisters, wives, mistresses...
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of the senate. The Curia of Pompey was located at the entrance to the Theater of Pompey. The Curia was attached to the porticus directly behind the theatre...
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ISBN 9780871699046. Retrieved 29 February 2020. Haley, Shelley (1985). "The Five Wives of Pompey the Great". Greece and Rome. 32 (1): 49–59. doi:10.1017/S0017383500030138...
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Pompey's campaign against the pirates represented the final phase of the Roman Republic's efforts to combat piracy in the eastern Mediterranean, which...
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Julius Caesar (redirect from Wives of Julius Caesar)
statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and...
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Judea because their general Pompey the Great had conquered Jerusalem in 63 BCE, thus placing the region in the Roman sphere of influence. In Rome, Herod...
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"The Fives Wives of Pompey the Great," Greece & Rome 32 (1985) 49–59. On questions pertaining to whether Caesar had four wives (with Cossutia the first)...
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Sulla's civil war (redirect from First Civil War of the Roman Republic)
John Leach, Pompey the Great, pp 28–29; Plutarch, The Life of Pompey, 10.3. John Leach, Pompey the Great, pp 29–31; Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 12. Philip...
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found to be dedicated to the dearest friend of Alexander the Great, Hephaestion. Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria where...
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Marcus Junius Brutus (redirect from Brutus the Younger)
Caesar's forces during the ensuing civil war (49–45 BC). Pompey was defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48, after which Brutus surrendered to Caesar...
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Religious Origins of Nations?: The Christian Communities of the Middle East. Brill. ISBN 9789004173750. Seager, Robin (2008). Pompey the Great: A Political...
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Cleopatra (redirect from Cleopatra the Seventh)
Caesar's civil war. Pompey had been a political ally of Ptolemy XII, but Ptolemy XIII, at the urging of his court eunuchs, had Pompey ambushed and killed...
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Hasmonean dynasty (redirect from Kingdom of Israel (Hasmonean))
Caesar and Pompey. The deaths of Pompey (48 BCE) and Caesar (44 BCE), and the related Roman civil wars, temporarily relaxed Rome's grip on the Hasmonean...
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Second Triumvirate (redirect from Treaty of Brundisium)
to Africa. The last remaining opposition to the Triumvirs came from Sextus Pompey, a son of Pompey the Great, who controlled Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia...
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Pompey, who was much more often compared to Alexander than Caesar during their lifetime. For example, Pompey received the cognomen Magnus ("the Great")...
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Phraates III (redirect from Phraates III of Parthia)
far as the Tigris resulted in Phraates III losing Gordyene, which was restored to Tigranes by the Romans. At the start of 64 BC, while Pompey was focusing...
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Ptolemaic dynasty (redirect from Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt)
Julius Caesar and Pompey, and later between Octavian and Mark Antony. Her apparent suicide after the Roman conquest of Egypt marked the end of Ptolemaic rule...
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another Scribonia, married Sextus Pompey. Another less common hypothesis was that she was a second daughter of the consul of 34 BC, rather than his sister...
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Basil Rathbone (category Recipients of the Military Cross)
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Retrieved 22 July 2024. "TRE191308 – The Tragedy of Pompey the Great". RSC Performances. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Retrieved...
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Emesene dynasty (redirect from Royal Family of Emesa)
Tullius Cicero, nicknamed Pompey ‘Sampsiceramus’ to make fun of Pompey's pretensions as an eastern potentate. At the request of Pompey, Sampsiceramus I captured...
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when the Roman consul Julius Caesar pursued his rival Pompey into Ptolemaic Egypt, a Roman client state. Upon arrival, Caesar discovered that Pompey had...
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Sulla (redirect from Cornelia (daughter of Sulla))
Metellus Pius (who also joined the Sullans), joined Sulla even before his landing in Italy. Pompey, the son of Pompey Strabo, raised a legion from his...
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attack on the afternoon of October 23. As he said, "I seem to carry on war like Pompey the Great, not so much commanding as commanded." However, the reality...
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