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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