Pompey

Examples of Pompey in the following topics:

• Crises of the Republic

  • In 62 BCE, Pompey returned from campaigning in Asia to find that the Senate, elated by its successes against the Catiline conspirators, were unwilling to ratify any of Pompey’s arrangements, leaving Pompey powerless.
  • Julius Caesar returned from his governorship in Spain a year later and, along with Crassus, established a private agreement with Pompey known as the First Triumvirate.
  • Clodius eventually formed armed gangs that terrorized Rome and began to attack Pompey’s followers, who formed counter-gangs in response, marking the end o fhte political alliance between Pompey and Caeser.
  • The senators adopted Pompey as their champion, and on January 7, Pompey was granted dictatorial powers over the Republic by the Senate.
  • Pompey, the consuls, and the Senate all abandoned Rome for Greece in the face of Caeser’s rapidly advancing forces, and Caesar entered the city unopposed.

• Julius Caesar

  • In 60 BCE, Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) formed a political alliance that was to dominate Roman politics for several years known as the First Triumvirate.
  • Caesar won along with conservative Marcus Bibulus, but saw that he could further his political influence with Crassus and Pompey.
  • These achievements granted Caesar unmatched military power and threatened to eclipse the standing of his colleague Pompey, who had realigned himself with the Senate after the death of Crassus in 53 BCE.
  • Civil War ensued, with Pompey representing the Roman Senate forces against Caesar, but Caesar quickly defeated Pompey in 48 and dispatched Pompey's supporters in the following year.

• Art and Literature in the Roman Republic

  • The portraits of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar, two political rivals who were also the most powerful generals in the Republic, began to change the style of portraits and their use.
  • The portraits of Pompey the Great were neither fully idealized, nor were they created in the same veristic style of Republican senators.
  • Pompey borrowed a specific parting and curl of his hair from Alexander the Great, linking Pompey visually to Alexander's likeness and triggering his audience to associate him with Alexander's characteristics and qualities.
  • The portraits of Pompey the Great were neither fully idealized, nor were they created in the same veristic style of Republican senators.

• Roman Sculpture under the Republic

  • The portraits of Pompey are not fully idealized, but nor were they created in the same veristic style of Republican senators.
  • Pompey borrowed a specific parting and curl of his hair from Alexander the Great.
  • This similarity served to link Pompey visually with likeness of Alexander and to remind people that he possessed similar characteristics and qualities.
  • The portraits of Julius Caesar are more veristic than those of Pompey.
  • Portraits of Pompey combine a degree of verism with an idealized hairstyle reminiscent of Alexander the Great.

• The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

  • Unlike the ash blanket of Pompei, in which organic material decomposed, the pyroclastic flow in Herculaneum petrified organic material, ensuring the preservation of human remains and wood, including the preservation of wooden screens, beds, and shelving.

• Second Declension

  • Nouns in -ajus, -ejus form the Gen. in -aī, -eī, as Pompejus, Pompeī.