Pompey the Great

2. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-631-22721-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

Pompey the Great gives readers a look inside the political and military world of ancient Rome and at one of the characters that shaped its destiny.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seager, Robin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

Abbreviations.

List of maps.

Introduction: The Historical Background from the Gracchi to Sulla.

1. Cn. Pomepeius Strabo.

2. Pompeius, Cinna and Sulla.

3. The Rise to the Consulship.

4. The Commands Against the Pirates and Mithradates.

5. Pompeius in the East.

6. Rome in the Absence of Pompeius.

7. The Return of Pomepius.

8. The Consulship of Caesar.

9. The Exile of Cicero.

10. The Conference of Luca.

11. The Second Consulship and the Growth of Anarchy.

12. The Third Consulship and the Approach of Civil War.

13. The Civil War.

14. Conclusion.

Afterword.

Appendix 1 The Chronology of Caesar's Legation in 59.

Appendix 2 The Terminal Date of Caesar's Gallic Command.

Select Bibliography.

Chronological table.

Glossary.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Seager is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He has previously lectured at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New England, Armidale and Langford Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida State University. His previous books include Tiberius (1972) and Ammianus Marcellinus, Seven Studies in His Language and Thought (1986).