Sextus Pompeius

Edited by Anton Powell Edited by Kathryn Welch

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Extent: 300 pages

Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Roman World

Language: English

Paperback (Forthcoming)

(August 2026)

ISBN: 9781914535659

Price: $35.00

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The son of Pompey the Great cast a long shadow. Acclaimed by the Roman
populace in his lifetime, his traditional virtues and military successes
put to shame his civil-war rival Octavian. After his death, he was
passionately and safely abused by Octavian and Augustan writers as a
marginal nuisance, a pirate. The image of a ‘second rank’ figure has
been propagated by scholars into recent times. But a very different
story can now be constructed, from the testimony of historians and poets
in antiquity and from the eloquent and long-neglected coinage of Sextus
Pompeius himself.


Anton Powell is author of Athens and Sparta and of studies in the
politics of Latin poetry. Kathryn Welch has published numerous papers on
the politics of late-Republican Rome. Powell and Welch have previously
collaborated in editing Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter (CPW and
Duckworth, 1998).

  • Edited by Anton Powell
  • Edited by Kathryn Welch