| Sextus Pompeius Contributor(s): Powell, Anton (Editor), Welch, Kathryn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0715631276 ISBN-13: 9780715631270 Publisher: Classical Press of Wales OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: 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 poets as a marginal nuisance, a pirate. The image of a 'second rank' figure has been propagated into modern times by Syme and Zanker. But extensive ancient evidence makes possible a very different story. Here seven new studies from an international cast reconstructs a figure whose actions and image shaped not just the civil war period but also the character of the early principate. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Rome |
| Dewey: 937.050 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.5" W x 9.6" (1.48 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |