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The son of Pompey the Great casts 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 poets as a marginal nuisance, a pirate. The image of a 'second rank' figure has been propagated into recent times by Syme and Zanker. But extensive ancient evidence makes possible a very different story. Here seven new studies from an international cast reconstruct a figure whose actions and image shaped not just the civil war period but the character of the early Principate.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Sextus Pompeius
• Author: Anton Powell, Kathryn Welch
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 285
• EAN: 9780715631270
• ISBN: 0715631276
• ID: 04647097
• Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 159 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2002

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