POMPEY THE GREAT

106-48 BCE

Pompey the great statue

BY: Couper Webb

POMPEY FAMILY TREE…Wives~

Antistia -Antistia was the daughter of a praetor named Antistius

(a praetor is an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic)

Pompey

POMPEY’S WIVES…

AemiliaIn 82 B.C., Sulla persuaded Pompey to divorce Antistia in order to remarry his stepdaughter, Aemilia. At the time, Aemilia was pregnant by her husband, M. Acilius Glabrio. She didn’t want to marry Pompey, but did so, anyway, and soon died in childbirth.

POMPEY’S WIVES

MuciaQ. Mucius Scaevola was the father of Pompey's 3rd wife, Mucia, they had a daughter, Pompeia, and two sons, Gnaeus and Sextus. Pompey divorced Mucia.

Q. Mucius Scaevola († c. 115 BC) was a prominent Roman politician and jurist.

WIVES~ Julia

In 59 B.C. Pompey married the much younger daughter of Caesar, Julia, who was already engaged to Q. Servilius Caepio.

CorneliaPompey's fifth wife was Cornelia, daughter of Metellus Scipio and widow of Publius Crassus. She was young enough to have been married to his sons, but the marriage appears to have been a loving one, like the one with Julia.

Pompey and Julia getting married.

Cornelia

TIME LINE…

He was born in 106 BC,september,29 in the

northern Italian town of Picenum.

89 Serves at Ausculum in the Social War

under his father.

TIME LINE…

c.85 Marries Antistia.

82 Pompey defeats what remains of the army of Carbo, who has fled. He divorces Antistia in order to marry Aemilia, Sulla’s stepdaughter. Further victories follow in Africa.

Antistia

One of Pompey’s many wives

TIME LINE… 77 Sent to Spain to assist in the campaign

against Quintus Sertorius, a former supporter of Cinna and Marius.

54 Pompey appointed to govern Spain for five years. Death of Julia in childbirth.

48 He was killed when he went to Egypt with his 5th wife Cornelia. Pompey is murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt.

Pompey

POMPEY

One of the things attributed to Pompey was Pompey the Great's theatre, dedicated in 55

BC on the Campus Martius.

Pictures of the theatre

STORY Caesar decided that Pompey needed to get kicked out of his

position of power, and Pompey thought the same of Caesar. Crassus, who had been watching their struggle, ready to take on the winner himself, had been killed in Parthia so they didn’t have to worry about him.

It was only recently that Pompey had come to fear Caesar. Up until this time he had only despised him. It was through his own influence, he thought, that Caesar had grown great, and it would be just as easy to put him down as it had been to raise him up. Caesar won the fight.

Pompey the Great

CAESAR

FACTS Sulla gave him the nickname Magnus

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as that of dictator

official nomenclature~ CN·POMPEIVS·CN·F·SEX·N·MAGNVS

o His full name is Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

Sulla

Pompey on a coin

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