Pompey, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pompey

Roman general

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-0106

Date of Death: 28-Sep-0048

Profession: military personnel, politician

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Pompey

  • Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Classical Latin: ['?nae?.?s p?m'p?jj?s 'ma?n?s]; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), usually known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.
  • He came from a wealthy Italian provincial background; his father had been the first to establish the family among the nobiles (Roman nobility).
  • Pompey's success as a general while still very young enabled him to advance directly to his first consulship without meeting the normal cursus honorum (requirements for office).
  • His success as a military commander in Sulla's second civil war resulted in Sulla's bestowing upon him the cognomen Magnus ("the Great"), after Pompey’s boyhood hero Alexander the Great.
  • Pompey’s Roman adversaries gave him the nickname adulescentulus carnifex ("the teenage butcher"), after his Sicilian campaign in which he had executed several high ranking opponents of Sulla's.
  • Pompey was consul three times (twice with Marcus Licinius Crassus and once without a partner) and celebrated three Roman triumphs. In 60 BC, Pompey joined Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gaius Julius Caesar in the unofficial military-political alliance known as the First Triumvirate, which Pompey's marriage to Caesar's daughter Julia helped secure.
  • After Crassus and Julia's deaths, Pompey sided with the Optimates, the conservative faction of the Roman Senate.
  • Pompey and Caesar then contended for the leadership of the Roman state, leading to a civil war.
  • When in that war Pompey was defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus, in 48 BC, he sought refuge in Egypt, where he was assassinated.
  • His career and defeat are significant in Rome's subsequent transformation from Republic to Empire.

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