85 - Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus

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 

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