Sextus Pompeius
Published on 31. December 2002
285 pages
978-1-914535-19-2 (ISBN)
Description
The son of Pompey the Great cast a long shadow. Acclaimed by the Roman populace in his lifetime, his traditional virtues and military successes put to shame his civil-war rival Octavian. After his death, he was passionately and safely abused by Octavian and Augustan writers as a marginal nuisance, a pirate. The image of a 'second rank' figure has been propagated by scholars into recent times. But a very different story can now be constructed, from the testimony of historians and poets in antiquity and from the eloquent and long-neglected coinage of Sextus Pompeius himself. Here ten studies from an international cast reveal a figure whose actions and image shaped the ethos not just of the civil-war period but of the early Principate.
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Anton Powell | Kathryn Welch
Sextus Pompeius
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05/2002
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
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Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Both sides of the coin: Sextus Pompeius and the so-called Pompeiani
- 2. Sextus Pompeius and the Res Publica in 42-39 BC
- 3. Sextus Pompeius and Spain: 46-44 BC
- 4. 'An island amid the flame': The strategy and imagery of Sextus Pompeius, 43-36 BC
- 5. Sextus Pompeius, Octavianus and Sicily
- 6. Pompeian and Scribonian descendants in the Early Empire
- 7. Pirates, witches and slaves: The imperial afterlife of Sextus Pompeius
- 8. Horace and the Pirates
- 9. Magno proles indigna parente: The role of Sextus Pompeius in Lucan's Bellum Civile
- 10. Lucan's Sextus Pompeius episode: Its necromantic, political and literary background
- Coinage (Plates)
- Index
