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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145699103321

Autore

Seager Robin

Titolo

Pompey the Great [[electronic resource] ] : a political biography / / Robin Seager

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2002

ISBN

1-281-31037-9

9786611310370

0-470-77342-1

0-470-77522-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Ancient Lives

Altri autori (Persone)

SeagerRobin

Disciplina

937.05092

937.05092B

937/.05/092 B

Soggetti

Consuls, Roman

Generals - Rome

Rome History First Triumvirate, 60-53 B.C

Rome History 53-44 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of: Pompey. 1979.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Abbreviations; Map 1 Italy in the Late Republic; Map 2 Latium; Map 3 Spain in the Time of Pompeius and Caesar; Map 4 Asia Minor; Map 5 The East; Introduction: The Historical Background - from the Gracchi to Sulla; 1 Cn. Pompeius 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 Pompeius; 8 The Consulship of Caesar; 9 The Exile of Cicero; 10 The Conference of Luca

11 The Second Consulship and the Growth of Anarchy12 The Third Consulship and the Approach of Civil War; 13 The Civil War; 14 Conclusion; Afterword; Appendix 1 Chronological Table; Appendix 2 The Chronology of Caesar's Legislation in 59; Appendix 3 The Terminal Date of Caesar's Gallic Command; Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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