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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(August 2026)

ISBN: 9781914535789

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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.

  • Edited by Anton Powell
  • Edited by Kathryn Welch