Pompey the Great

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Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Original Title Page......Page 6 Original Copyright Page......Page 7 Table of Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 12 1. The War-Lords of Picenum: Social and Civil War 89-79......Page 14 2. The Senate’s General: Italy and Spain 78-71......Page 37 3. Consul and Proconsul: Rome and the Pirates 70-66......Page 58 4. Conqueror of the East: the New Empire 66-62......Page 81 5. The New Challenge: Politics at Rome 67-60......Page 105 6. The Coalition with Caesar: Corn Commission and Second Consulship 59-55......Page 126 7. Pompey’s ‘Principate’: Third Consulship and the Rift with Caesar 54-50......Page 153 8. Civil War: the Loss of Italy 49......Page 176 9. ‘Dead Men Don’t Bite’: Dyrrachium and Pharsalus January to September 48......Page 189 10. Facile Princeps?......Page 213 Appendix A The Documentary Sources......Page 217 Appendix B Selected Passages in Translation......Page 221 Notes......Page 240 Select Bibliography of Modern Works......Page 252 Index Nominum......Page 258 General Index......Page 264