85 - Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus
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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  Thanks to our sponsor Intercollegiate Studies Institute! www.isi.org.  Check out their programs on supporting quality thought and intellectual life in and after your college years.
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