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Pompey the Great

Pompey the Great . 106-48 BCE. BY: Couper Webb. Pompey the great statue. Pompey family tree…. Wives~ Antistia -Antistia was the daughter of a praetor named Antistius

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Pompey the Great

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  1. Pompey the Great 106-48 BCE BY: Couper Webb Pompey the great statue

  2. Pompey family tree… • Wives~ • Antistia -Antistia was the daughter of a praetor named Antistius • (a praetor is an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic) Pompey

  3. Pompey’s wives… • AemiliaIn 82 B.C., Sulla persuaded Pompey to divorce Antistia in order to remarry his stepdaughter, Aemilia. At the time, Aemilia was pregnant by her husband, M. Acilius Glabrio. She didn’t want to marry Pompey, but did so, anyway, and soon died in childbirth.

  4. Pompey’s wives • MuciaQ. Mucius Scaevola was the father of Pompey's 3rd wife, Mucia, they had a daughter, Pompeia, and two sons, Gnaeus and Sextus. Pompey divorced Mucia. • Q. Mucius Scaevola († c. 115 BC) was a prominent Roman politician and jurist.

  5. Pompey and Julia getting married. Wives~ • JuliaIn 59 B.C. Pompey married the much younger daughter of Caesar, Julia, who was already engaged to Q. Servilius Caepio. • CorneliaPompey's fifth wife was Cornelia, daughter of Metellus Scipio and widow of Publius Crassus. She was young enough to have been married to his sons, but the marriage appears to have been a loving one, like the one with Julia. Cornelia

  6. Time line… • He was born in 106 BC,september,29 in the northern Italian town of Picenum. • 89 Serves at Ausculum in the Social War under his father.

  7. Antistia Time line… • c.85 Marries Antistia. • 82 Pompey defeats what remains of the army of Carbo, who has fled. He divorces Antistia in order to marry Aemilia, Sulla’s stepdaughter. Further victories follow in Africa. One of Pompey’s many wives

  8. Time Line… • 77 Sent to Spain to assist in the campaign against Quintus Sertorius, a former supporter of Cinna and Marius. • 54 Pompey appointed to govern Spain for five years. Death of Julia in childbirth. • 48 He was killed when he went to Egypt with his 5th wife Cornelia. Pompey is murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt. Pompey

  9. pompey One of the things attributed to Pompey was Pompey the Great's theatre, dedicated in 55 BC on the Campus Martius. Pictures of the theatre

  10. story Pompey the Great • Caesar decided that Pompey needed to get kicked out of his position of power, and Pompey thought the same of Caesar. Crassus, who had been watching their struggle, ready to take on the winner himself, had been killed in Parthia so they didn’t have to worry about him. • It was only recently that Pompey had come to fear Caesar. Up until this time he had only despised him. It was through his own influence, he thought, that Caesar had grown great, and it would be just as easy to put him down as it had been to raise him up. Caesar won the fight. Caesar

  11. facts • Sulla gave him the nickname Magnus • Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He had the distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as that of dictator • official nomenclature~ CN·POMPEIVS·CN·F·SEX·N·MAGNVS • His full name is Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Sulla Pompey on a coin

  12. Sources cited… • http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/pompey/f/PompeyWives.htm • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hw-pompey.jpg • http://www.the-romans.co.uk/timelines/pompey.htm • http://www.google.com/imgres?q=pompey+the+great&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X&biw=1920&bih=1003&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnsb&tbnid=gmeGS5-RTeLXXM:&imgrefurl=http://faculty.nmu.edu/kkendall/HS%2520101/04%2520Roman%2520Republic.htm&docid=MGXykxx--ikloM&imgurl=http://faculty.nmu.edu/kkendall/HS%252520101/Pompey%252520the%252520Great.jpg&w=937&h=1133&ei=YJGBUJe6NPO70QHNj4DwBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=332&vpy=132&dur=641&hovh=247&hovw=204&tx=129&ty=117&sig=100879801722758607587&page=1&tbnh=157&tbnw=133&start=0&ndsp=60&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:75

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