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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 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 (sĕk´stəs pŏmpā´əs), d. 35 BC, Roman commander; one of the sons of Pompey the Great. He fought for his father at Pharsalus, then went to Egypt and, after the battle of Thapsus, to Spain, where he continued warring against Caesar's followers after the death of his elder brother in 45 BC In 44 BC, Lepidus (d.
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...
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.
