Pompey

Pompey

Pompey, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir, (29 September 106 BC–29 September 48 BC), was an important military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.

Coming from an Italian provincial background, he got a place for himself in the ranks of Roman nobility, and was given the nickname of the Great by Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

Pompey was a rival of Marcus Licinius Crassus and an ally to Gaius Julius Caesar. The three politicians would dominate the Late Roman republic through a political alliance called the First Triumvirate. After the death of Crassus, Pompey and Caesar disputed the leadership of the Roman Republic. Pompey was decisively beaten by Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus.

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