Pompey the Great

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Original Title Page......Page 6
Original Copyright Page......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1. The War-Lords of Picenum: Social and Civil War 89-79......Page 14
2. The Senate’s General: Italy and Spain 78-71......Page 37
3. Consul and Proconsul: Rome and the Pirates 70-66......Page 58
4. Conqueror of the East: the New Empire 66-62......Page 81
5. The New Challenge: Politics at Rome 67-60......Page 105
6. The Coalition with Caesar: Corn Commission and Second Consulship 59-55......Page 126
7. Pompey’s ‘Principate’: Third Consulship and the Rift with Caesar 54-50......Page 153
8. Civil War: the Loss of Italy 49......Page 176
9. ‘Dead Men Don’t Bite’: Dyrrachium and Pharsalus January to September 48......Page 189
10. Facile Princeps?......Page 213
Appendix A The Documentary Sources......Page 217
Appendix B Selected Passages in Translation......Page 221
Notes......Page 240
Select Bibliography of Modern Works......Page 252
Index Nominum......Page 258
General Index......Page 264