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To Romans of later generations the three decades between the dictatorships of Sulla and of Caesar were the age of Pompey the Great. In spite of the central role he played in Roman history, he remains a shadowy figure compared with the likes of Caesar and Cicero.

Pompey the Great, first published in 1978, traces the career of this enigmatic character from his first appearance in public life on the staff of his father Strabo during the Social War, through his early military campaigns as Sullas lieutenant in the Civil War 83-82, as the Senates general in Italy and Spain during the 70s, to his first consulship with Crassus in 70. The important commands against the pirates and Mithridates, the alliance with Caesar, its eventual collapse into civil war, and the significance of Pompeys constitutional position for an understanding of the later Augustan settlement war are all discussed with clarity and insight.

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Pompey the Great

Pompey the Great, first published in 1978, traces the career of this enigmatic character from his first appearance in public life on the staff of his father Strabo during the Social War, through his early military campaigns as Sullas lieutenant in the Civil War 83-82, as the Senates general in Italy and Spain during the 70s, to his first consulship with Crassus in 70. The important commands against the pirates and Mithridates, the alliance with Caesar, its eventual collapse into civil war, and the significance of Pompeys constitutional position for an understanding of the later Augustan settlement are all discussed with clarity and insight.

Pompey the Great

John Leach

First published in 1978
by Croom Helm Ltd

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1978 John Leach

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A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 85031371

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-74733-2 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-315-79709-0 (ebk)

POMPEY THE GREAT

JOHN LEACH

1978 John Leach

Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row,

Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AT

Croom Helm Australia Pty Ltd, Suite 4, 6th Floor,

64-76 Kippax Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia

Reprinted 1986

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Leach, John D.

Pompey the Great
1. Pompey the Great
937.050924 DG 258

ISBN 0-70994127-7 Pbk

Croom Helm, 51 Washington Street,
Dover, New Hampshire 03820, USA

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Leach, John, 1938 -

Pompey the Great.

Bibliography: p. 249
Includes index.

1. Pompey, the Great, 106-48 B.C. 2. Rome History Republic 265-30 B.C. 3. Consuls, Roman Biography.

DG258.L4 1986 937050924 85-31371
ISBN 0-7099-4127-7 (Pbk.)

Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Biddies Ltd, Guildford and Kings Lynn

CONTENTS

The Family Tree of Pompey the Great

PREFACE

To Romans of later generations the three decades between the dictatorships of Sulla and Caesar were the age of Pompey the Great. In spite of the fact that the period is central to the most commonly taught Roman History course in schools and universities in Great Britain, there has, curiously, been no full length study in English of its most prominent figure, and for many students he remains enigmatic and shadowy compared with the flesh and blood characters of Cicero and Caesar. Consequently the impact made by Pompey on the history of his own and later times has, I believe, been inadequately understood and emphasised.

In this book I have attempted to re-examine the life and career of Pompey, and to see him, as far as is possible, through the eyes of his contemporaries and of those who wrote about him later using contemporary material which is now lost. If there are few overt references to modern studies of the period, this is because I share the belief of many teachers of Ancient History that it is by an informed study of the original sources that the student can obtain the clearest understanding of the life and people of the Classical world. I have, however, not neglected the works of more modern historians.

Both in the text and the appendix I have made extensive use of quotations (in English) from the sources, and I hope that it will not be difficult for those who wish to read more of these for themselves to obtain copies or translations of them. Except where noted the translations used in this book are my own.

I should like to express my very great thanks to all who have so generously helped me in this enterprise: especially to the President and Fellows of St Johns College, Oxford, who welcomed me as a Schoolmaster Commoner in Hilary term 1970 and enabled me to embark on the necessary research under ideal conditions; to many colleagues and pupils at Sherborne and St Edwards; to Mr R.S. Glen, Mr J. Sabben-Clare and Professor J.J. Wilkes, who have read all or part of the text and given me, in our discussions, invaluable advice on very many points; to Mr D.L. Stockton, who in addition to reading the typescript first inspired and fostered my enthusiasm for Ancient History in his tutorials and lectures; and to my wife Rosamund, without whose constant encouragement and support the book could never have been written.

Oxford 1977

John Leach

There is in the Capitoline Museum at Rome a bronze tablet (I)*, which was once nailed to the wall of some public building in the city. It is dated 17 November 89 BC and records the grant on that date of Roman citizenship to a squadron of thirty Spanish cavalrymen by the consul, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo. The grant was a reward for valour in the Social War, which was then coming slowly to an end. In this war a large number of the communities of central and southern Italy, who had long been allies of the Roman people, were fighting for the right to be not mere allies, but full members of the Roman state.

In November 89 Pompeius Strabo with his army was besieging the town of Asculum in Picenum, the stretch of country between the summit of the Apennines and the sea on the Adriatic coast of Italy north-east of Rome. This town was the focal point of Italian resistance in the northern theatre of the war. In an incident shortly before the outbreak of open hostilities a Roman praetor and all Roman citizens in the town had been massacred, and Asculum itself had been besieged since the early days of the war in 90 by Pompeius Strabo, first in his capacity as lieutenant of the consul of 90, P. Rutilius Lupus, and for the past year as consul himself. This high position he probably owed to his own successes in 90, a year marked otherwise mainly by a series of Roman disasters.

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