![]() ![]() Sulla was expecting trouble with Gnaeus Papirius Carbo's regime and found the 23-year-old Pompey and the three veteran legions very useful. Pompey sided with Sulla after his return from Greece in 83 BC. His acquittal was certainly helped by the fact that he was betrothed to the judge's daughter, Antistia. Returning to Rome he was prosecuted for misappropriation of plunder but quickly acquitted. For the next few years the Marian party had possession of Italy and accordingly Pompey, who adhered to the aristocratic party, was obliged to keep in the background. His father died in 87 BC, in the conflicts between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, leaving young Pompey in control of his family affairs and fortune. According to Plutarch, who was sympathetic to Pompey, he was very popular, and considered a look-alike of Alexander the Great. He fought under him in 89 against the Italians, at the age of seventeen, fully involved in his father's military and political affairs, and he would continue with his father until Strabo's death two years afterward. Pompey had scarcely left school before he was summoned to serve under his father in the Social war. Nevertheless, his father had climbed through the traditional cursus honorum being quaestor in 104 BC, praetor in 92 BC, and consul in 89 BC. ![]() His father Pompeius Strabo was an extremely wealthy man from the Italian region of Picenum but his family was not a part of the ancient families who had dominated Roman politics. ![]() He then sought refuge in Egypt, where he was assassinated.ฤก1 Chronology of Pompey's life and career Pompey fought on the side of the Optimates, the conservative faction in the Roman Senate, until he was defeated by Caesar. After the death of Crassus, Pompey and Caesar became rivals, disputing the leadership of the Roman state in what is now called Caesar's civil war. The three politicians dominated the Late Roman republic through a political alliance called the First Triumvirate. Pompey was a rival of Marcus Licinius Crassus and an ally to Gaius Julius Caesar. Hailing from an Italian provincial background, after military triumphs he established a place for himself in the ranks of Roman nobility, and was given the cognomen of Magnusthe Greatby Lucius Cornelius Sulla. MAGNVS, Gnaeus or Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus) (September 29, 106 BCSeptember 28, 48 BC), was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.Pompey, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir (Classical Latin abbreviation: CN Occupation Politician and military commander ![]()
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