Sextus Pompeius

edited by Anton Powell and Kathryn Welch

Book cover: Sextus Pompeius

Extent: 285 pages

Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales

Subjects: Classical Studies

Series: Roman World

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2002)

ISBN: 9780715631270

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $80.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2002)

ISBN: 9781914535192

Price: $64.00

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. Here ten studies from an international cast reveal a figure whose actions and image shaped the ethos not just of the civil-war period but of the early Principate.

Introduction - Anton Powell Acknowledgements 1. Both sides of the coin: Sextus Pompeius and the so-called Pompeiani - Kathryn Welch 2. Sextus Pompeius and the Res Publica in 42-39 BC - Kathryn Welch 3. Sextus Pompeius and Spain: 46-44 BC - Benedict J. Lowe 4. 'An island amid the flame': The strategy and imagery of Sextus Pompeius, 43-36 BC - Anton Powell 5. Sextus Pompeius, Octavianus and Sicily - Shelley C. Stone III 6. Pompeian and Scribonian descendants in the Early Empire - Hugh Lindsay 7. Pirates, witches and slaves: The imperial afterlife of Sextus Pompeius - Alain M. Gowing 8. Horace and the Pirates - Lindsay Watson 9. Magno proles indigna parente: The role of Sextus Pompeius in Lucan's Bellum Civile - Charles Tesoriero 10. Lucan's Sextus Pompeius episode: Its necromantic, political and literary background - Daniel Ogden Coinage (Plates 1-14) Index

  • Edited by Anton Powell
  • Edited by Kathryn Welch