Senatorial opposition to the triumvirate was led by Cicero, a long-standing Pompeian ally. Despite this, the latter supported the populist politician Publius...

Pompeian, Inc. is a food company that was founded in Baltimore in 1906 and produced America's first national brand of imported extra virgin olive oil....

Pompeian red refers to the color of iron oxide-based mineral pigment with a hue close to red ochre, so named because of its common use in ancient Roman...

The Pompeian Styles are four periods which are distinguished in ancient Roman mural painting. They were originally delineated and described by the German...

The Pompeian Era was a calendar era used by Hellenistic cities in Roman Palestine, in particular the cities of the Decapolis. The calendar counted the...

A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes...

Bucilianus, former Pompeian, brother of Caecilius Rubrius Ruga, former Pompeian Marcus Spurius, former Pompeian Publius Sextius Naso, former Pompeian Petronius...

soon afterwards. However, in April 46 BC, Caesar's forces destroyed the Pompeian army at the Battle of Thapsus. After this, military opposition to Caesar...

Pompey during Caesar's civil war. Caesar attempted to capture the vital Pompeian logistics hub of Dyrrachium but was unsuccessful after Pompey occupied...

Pompey's army disintegrated. Many prominent supporters of Pompey (termed Pompeians) surrendered after the battle, such as Marcus Junius Brutus and Cicero...

as pontifex maximus in 63 BC. An energetic politician who had "espoused Pompeian causes for nearly a decade", he was also indebted to Crassus, who was a...

Painting in ancient Rome is a still poorly understood topic in the history of painting, as its study is hampered by the scarcity of relics. Much of what...

The Pompeian–Parthian invasion of 40 BC occurred after the Pompeians, backed by the Parthian Empire, had been defeated during the Liberators' civil war...

a civil war between the Caesarians, the supporters of Caesar, and the Pompeians, the supporters of Pompey, who had led the forces of the Roman senate...

advances against Pompeian forces in Spain. April 19 – Siege of Massilia: Caesar commences a siege at Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus...

represented in many houses' tablinum for this reason. Venus has appeared in Pompeian artwork at least 197 times, the majority of these depictions located in...

painter, who depicted genre scenes and still-lifes in a style known as Neo-Pompeian. He was born in Foggia. In 1848, he and a friend left, to study in Rome...

been known in most cultures in all times, and has been depicted in art: Pompeian Styles Pompeii – Osteria della Via di Mercurio Kama Sutra – A Mughal couple...

The Wedding of Zephyrus and Chloris (54–68 AD, Pompeian Fourth Style) within painted architectural panels from the Casa del Naviglio...

After his defeat and death, a force under Pacorus came to the aid of the Pompeian general Caecilius Bassus, who was besieged at Apamea Valley by the Caesarian...

throughout the entire line in order to inspire the less experienced. The Pompeian cohorts were arrayed in an unusually thick formation, 10 men deep: their...

the Romans were able to overcome this constraint with the animal-drawn Pompeian mill, also known as the "blood" mill. In this mill, the nether millstone...

no harm if he persisted in fighting against capture. After the massive Pompeian defeat at Pharsalus on 9 August 48, Brutus fled through marshland to Larissa...

years ago.[citation needed] The rooms of the Pompeian domus were often painted in one of four Pompeian Styles: the first style imitated ashlar masonry...

slightly more than ten square meters. The floor was patterned in the Second Pompeian Style featuring a satyr and a nymph. This was essentially a small storage...

century BC, probably by the artist Philoxenus of Eretria. Unlike most Pompeian pavements of the late second and early first centuries, this mosaic is...

were injured, he took command. He fought back and drove the attacking Pompeian cohort's back to the city, despite being, in the words of Suetonius, "blinded...

Dido and Aeneas, from a Roman fresco, Pompeian Third Style (10 BCE – 45 CE), Pompeii, Italy...

none of the eruptions after AD 79 were as large or destructive as the Pompeian one. The eruptions vary greatly in severity but are characterized by explosive...

An ancient Roman fresco in the Pompeian Third Style possibly depicting Cleopatra, from the House of the Orchard at Pompeii, Italy, mid-1st century AD...