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    The Tragedy of Pompey the Great is a play by John Masefield, based on the later career of the Roman general and politician Pompey the Great and covering...
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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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    roles included The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1950) and Rush Job (1951). Baker attracted attention when cast as the bosun's mate in the Hollywood-financed...
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    Lucius Septimius (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from September 2016)
    remembered as one of the assassins of the triumvir Pompey the Great. At the time of the assassination in 48 BC, Septimius was serving the Ptolemies of Egypt as...
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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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    The Death of Pompey (La Mort de Pompée) is a tragedy by the French playwright Pierre Corneille on the death of Pompey the Great. It was first performed...
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  • Rachel Gurney (category Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art)
    during the 1950s. Several of her stage appearances were broadcast live on television on the BBC Sunday Night Theatre including The Tragedy of Pompey the Great...
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    Ancient Rome built during the latter part of the Roman Republican era by Pompey the Great. Completed in 55 BC, it was the first permanent theatre to...
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    John Masefield (category Presidents of the Society of Authors)
    (1907) The Tragedy of Pompey the Great (1910) Philip the King (1914) The Locked Chest (1916) Good Friday: A Play in Verse (1916) The Tragedy of Nan (Originally...
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    Marcus Licinius Crassus (category People of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
    victory over the slave revolt led by Spartacus, sharing the consulship with his rival Pompey the Great. A political and financial patron of Julius Caesar...
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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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    1910, John Masefield treated Pompey and Septimius in his The Tragedy of Pompey the Great. E. H. C. Oliphant, The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: An Attempt...
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    1910 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
    puesto el sol (The Sun Has Set in Flanders) John Masefield – The Tragedy of Pompey the Great Louis N. Parker – Pomander Walk Edmond Rostand – Chantecler...
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  • Isabel Dean (category Actors from the London Borough of Wandsworth)
    production of The Hotel in Amsterdam broadcast on 14 March 1971. Among her film appearances are roles in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) and the film...
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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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    Frederick the Great and Pompey the Great. The television miniseries Catherine the Great (2019) stars Helen Mirren. She was portrayed by Elle Fanning in the Hulu...
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    redivide the Roman world among themselves, the rebel Sextus Pompey, the son of Caesar's rival Pompey the Great, was largely ignored. From his stronghold...
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    (or Theoderic) the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal, was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic...
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  • Marquina – En Flandes se ha puesto el sol (The Sun Has Set in Flanders) John Masefield – The Tragedy of Pompey the Great Louis N. Parker – Pomander Walk Edmond...
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    The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often abbreviated as Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William...
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    Cilician pirates (category History of the Mediterranean)
    Cilician pirates dominated the Mediterranean Sea from the 2nd century BC until their suppression by Pompey in 67–66 BC. Because there were notorious pirate...
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  • Cornelia (play) (category Cultural depictions of Pompey)
    Cornelia or Pompey the Great, his Fair Cornelia's Tragedy is a 1590 play by Thomas Kyd. The play is about Cornelia Metella, the widow of Pompey. The play ends...
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  • Saburra (category Military personnel of antiquity)
    rival Pompey the Great. Caesar wanted to control the three main grain hubs of the republic, Sardinia, Sicily, and Africa, so he dispatched two of his legates...
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  • and Pompey is a Jacobean era stage play, a classical tragedy written by George Chapman. Arguably Chapman's most obscure play, it is also one of the more...
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  • Pompey the Great, and Caesar, hastening to reach Hispania and cut Pompey off from his legions, left Decimus Brutus in charge of the naval blockade of...
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    friction between Crassus and Pompey had always been a greater cause of tension than that between Caesar and Pompey. The war in Parthia resulted from political...
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    Pierre Corneille (category Members of the Académie Française)
    seven children together. In the mid to late 1640s, Corneille produced mostly tragedies, La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey, performed 1644), Rodogune...
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    not qualify. The Admiral's Men had an anonymous Caesar and Pompey in their repertory in 1594–95, and another play, Caesar's Fall, or the Two Shapes, written...
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    Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed around 1607, by the King's Men at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre...
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    wars. The first involved Marius and Sulla. After a generation, the Republic fell into civil war again in 49 BC between Julius Caesar and Pompey. Despite...
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