Sextus Pompeius by Anton Powell

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After his death, the son of Pompey the Great was vilified by his rival in civil war, Octavian, and dismissed as a pirate. However, Pompeius was acclaimed by the Roman populace in his lifetime for his virtues and military prowess which far outshone those of Octavian. These ten essays draw on archaeological, documentary and literary evidence, particularly Lucan, to reconstruct the character of this figure who played such a vital role in the civil war and in the early principate period. show more Contributors: Alain M Gowing, Hugh Lindsay, Benedict J Lowe, Daniel Ogden, Anton Powell, Shelley C Stone, Charles Tesoriero, Lindsay Watson, Kathryn Welch. show less

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Anton Powell

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Anton Powell is the author of Athens and Sparta (1988, 2001) and the editor (with Stephen Hodkinson) of volumes generated by the International Sparta Seminar, which he founded. Editor of The Greek World (1995), he has also edited Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus (1992), and co-edited (with Kathryn Welch) Julius Caesar as Artful show more Reporter (1998) and Sextus Pompeius (2002) and (with Christopher Smith) The Lost Memoirs of Augustus (2009). For long Director of the University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History, he has also twice been professor invite at the Ecole Normale Suprieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature. show less

Kathryn Welch

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