Sextus PompeiusAnton Powell, Kathryn Welch Classical Press of Wales, 2002 - 285 páginas 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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Sextus Pompeius and the Res Publica in 4239 BC | 31 |
4644 BC | 65 |
The strategy and imagery of | 103 |
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