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Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius (c. 67 – 35 BC), also known in English as Sextus Pompey, was a Roman military leader who, throughout his life, upheld the cause of his father, Pompey the Great, against Julius Caesar and his supporters during the last civil wars of the Roman Republic.
Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius was the younger son of the Roman general Pompey the Great, and a vigorous opponent of Pompey’s Caesarian rivals. After his father was killed in the Civil War (49–45 bc) against Julius Caesar, Pompeius fled to Spain, where he continued the struggle against Caesar’s.
Left in Lesbos with his stepmother Cornelia during the campaign of Pharsalus (48), he accompanied his father to Egypt and after his murder went to Africa; after Thapsus (46) he joined his brother Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in Spain, and during the campaign of Munda (45) commanded the garrison of Corduba.
The Bellum Siculum[1][2][3] (Latin for "Sicilian War") was an Ancient Roman civil war waged between 42 BC and 36 BC by the forces of the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey, the last surviving son of Pompey the Great and the last leader of the Optimate faction.
Sextus Pompey, Octavian and Sicily. SHELLEY C. STONE III. Abstract. The archaeological record supports the theory that the period of Sextus Pompey's control of Sicily was prosper- ous. In addition, there is little evidence for any dissatis- faction with his government. After Octavian conquered.
Sextus Pompeius: Pirate King. After the death of his father, Pompey the Great, and Cato at Utica, Sextus Pompeius and his brother, Gnaeus, led the last remaining resistance to Caesarian power from bases in Spain. When they were defeated in 45 BC, Gnaeus was executed, but Sextus was able to flee to Sicily.
The chapter explores how Brutus, Cassius, and Sextus resurrected the elder Pompey’s strategy of controlling the seas in their effort to contain the triumvirs in Italy.
Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily - or not at all - into the grand narrative of the civil war of 49-31BC. Modern scholars tend...
Nov 2, 2003 · The summary of Gowing’s chronological tour tries to give reasons why Sextus was historically important but was not felt to be so in antiquity, and his propositions — that Sextus never embraced a cause beyond doubt, was unable to fulfil Pompey’s legacy (whatever we take this to have been), and was “too mercurial and ...
Sextus Pompeius Magnus (Pius), younger son of Pompey (Cn. *Pompeius Magnus (1)) and *Mucia Tertia, was born probably c.67 bce. Left in Lesbos with *Cornelia (2) during the campaign of Pharsalus (48), he accompanied his father to Egypt and after his murder went to Africa; after Thapsus (46) he joined his brother Cn.
