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Pompey

Also known as Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Cn. Pompeius Magnus, Pompey Magnus, Pompey the Great

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey ( ) or Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and statesman who was prominent in the last decades of the Roman Republic. As a young man, he was a partisan and protégé of the dictator Sulla, after whose death he achieved much military and political success himself.

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Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known as Pompey, was a male politician and military personnel in Ancient Rome. Born in 106 BCE in Regio V Picenum, he held the position of Roman consul and was a member of the optimates political party. His father was Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, and he belonged to the Pompeia gens. He practiced ancient Roman religion.

Pompey died in 48 BCE in Pelusium. His manner of death was homicide, specifically caused by a stab wound. He was the father of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Sextus Pompey, and Pompeia Magna.

Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works: 21

Top works

Deep Down
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Type: Person
Gender: Other
Origin: Montréal

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 76,141
Total plays: 783,702

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5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!”
“More people worship the rising than the setting sun.”
“To sail is necessary, to live is not.”

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Key facts

Military person.battles: Social War Sulla's civil war Battle of the Asio River Battle of Utica Sertorian War Battle of Lauron Battle of Valentia Battle of Sucro Battle of Saguntum Battle near Osca Third Servile War Campaign against the pirates Battle of Korakesion Hasmonean civil war Siege of Jerusalem Third Mithridatic War Battle of the Lycus Battle of the Pelorus Battle of the Abas Caesar's civil war Siege of Brundisium Battle of Dyrrhachium Battle of Pharsalus
Military person.awards: 3 Triumphs
Person.name: Pompey
Person.image: (Venice) Pompey the Great, Museo Archeologico Nazionale.jpg
Person.alt: White bust
Person.caption: Bust of Pompey, copy of an original from 70–60 BC, Venice National Archaeological Museum
Person.native_name: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Person.native_name_lang: la
Person.birth_date: 29 September 106 BC
Person.birth_place: Picenum, Italy
Person.death_place: Pelusium, Egypt
Person.death_cause: Assassination
Person.resting_place: Albanum, Italy
Person.father: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo
Person.relations: Pompeia gens
Person.office: Consul (70, 55, 52 BC)
Military person.embed: yes

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Encyclopedic overview

21 sections

Contents

Early life and career
Pompey during Sulla's civil war
Sicily, Africa and Lepidus' rebellion
Sertorian War
First consulship
Campaign against the pirates
Third Mithridatic War and re-organisation of the east
Third Mithridatic War
Re-organisation of the East
Return to Rome and the First Triumvirate
From confrontation to civil war
The Road to Pharsalus
Death
Marriages and issue
Generalship
Literary heritage
Chronology of Pompey's life and career
Footnotes
References
Bibliography
Further reading

A member of the senatorial nobility, Pompey entered into a military career while still young. He rose to prominence serving Sulla as a commander in the civil war of 83–81 BC. Pompey's success as a general while young enabled him to advance directly to his first consulship without following the traditional cursus honorum (the required steps to advance in a political career). He was elected as consul on three occasions (70, 55, 52 BC). He celebrated three triumphs, served as a commander in the Sertorian War, the Third Servile War, the Third Mithridatic War, and in various other military campaigns. Pompey's early success led dictator Sulla to give him the cognomen Magnus – "the Great" – after his boyhood hero Alexander the Great. His adversaries gave him the nickname adulescentulus carnifex ("teenage butcher") for his ruthlessness.

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