Sextus Pompeius

By Kathryn Welch and Anton Powell

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715631276
• ISBN13: 9780715631270
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"