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Pompey and Caesar | HISTORY OF ROME

The public life of Rome, in the middle years of the 1st century BC, is dominated by two men. Both are outstanding examples of a relatively new trend in Roman history - that of the individual career pursued with unflinchi...

Caesar and Pompey | HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR

Caesar and Pompey

During the first few years of Caesar's absence from Rome the triumvirate retains its cohesion. Part of the reason is that the marriage between Pompey and Caesar's daughter proves surprisingly happy. But Julia dies in 54,...

Pompeii: 18th-20th century | DISCOVERIES - ARCHAEOLOGY

Pompeii: 18th-20th century

Workmen building roads, in the district south of Vesuvius, often unearth ancient remains. Systematic digging begins in 1748. An amphitheatre is discovered, and some villas. In 1763 an inscription is unearthed which for t...

Pompeii: 18th-20th century | POMPEII

Pompeii: 18th-20th century

Workmen building roads, in the district south of Vesuvius, often unearth ancient remains. Systematic digging begins in 1748. An amphitheatre is discovered, and some villas. In 1763 an inscription is unearthed which for t...

Pompeii: 1st century AD | POMPEII

Pompeii: 1st century AD

Pompeii is therefore a normal Roman town, of considerable prosperity in its privileged coastal position, during the first century of the empire. Large villas are built for its prosperous citizens, elaborately decorated w...

Pompeii: 6th - 1st century BC | POMPEII

Pompeii: 6th - 1st century BC

The first settlers at Pompeii are Greeks, part of the spread of Greek colonies around the Mediterranean in the 6th century BC. By the 4th century the town has been taken by Samnites, a hardy Italian tribe from the inland...

The Greek style overseas | HISTORY OF PAINTING

The Greek style overseas

Another way of approaching Greek painting is through later copies. Many have been preserved by the volcanic ash at Pompeii, where one mosaic in particular is considered an accurate version of a large picture of the late...

The new technology comes within a | INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

Glassblowing

The new technology comes within a few years of Pompey bringing this region of the Middle East under Roman control, as the province of Syria. As a result, glass spreads rapidly through the Roman empire.

As a stan...

By a coincidence of history the | HISTORY OF ROME

Augustus Caesar

By a coincidence of history the Roman empire, at its start, has recently achieved a new geographical completeness. The campaigns of Pompey have led to the annexation of Syria in 64 BC and the capture of Jerusalem in 63....

By a coincidence of history the | HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Augustus Caesar

By a coincidence of history the Roman empire, at its start, has recently achieved a new geographical completeness. The campaigns of Pompey have led to the annexation of Syria in 64 BC and the capture of Jerusalem in 63....

The Jews and their former persecutors, | HISTORY OF JUDAISM

Judaea and the Romans

The Jews and their former persecutors, the Seleucids, fall in successive years to a far greater power - the Romans. In 64 BC Pompey annexes Syria, the last remaining territory of the once great Seleucid empire. In 63 he...

In another context Cicero is again | HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE

Cicero, orator and correspondent

In another context Cicero is again a primary source of historical evidence. An untiring correspondent, he is unique for his period in that more than 900 of his letters survive. He communicates with Pompey, Julius Caesar,...

The arrival in Alexandria of Julius | CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA

Caesar and Cleopatra

The arrival in Alexandria of Julius Caesar gives Cleopatra her first chance of a wider role in the world. She seizes it, becoming the mistress of the man who is now unmistakably - after his defeat of Pompey - the most po...

The arrival in Alexandria of Julius | HISTORY OF CLEOPATRA

Caesar and Cleopatra

The arrival in Alexandria of Julius Caesar gives Cleopatra her first chance of a wider role in the world. She seizes it, becoming the mistress of the man who is now unmistakably - after his defeat of Pompey - the most po...