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Pompey the Great: A Political Biography, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-470-77342-0

February 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

288 pages

Description

Pompey the Great gives readers a look inside the political and military world of ancient Rome and at one of the characters that shaped its destiny.

About the Author

Robin Seager is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He has previously lectured at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New England, Armidale and Langford Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida State University. His previous books include Tiberius (1972) and Ammianus Marcellinus, Seven Studies in His Language and Thought (1986).

Features

  • A fascinating account of the political career of one of the most important figures in the history of Rome.

  • This new edition makes this important work available to a new generation of students and scholars

  • Now includes a substantial new introduction which describes events from the Gracchi to Sulla, providing the essential background to the study of Pompeius.

  • Contains new maps and an afterword which reconsiders various aspects of Pompeius's career and revises conclusions in the light of recent scholarship.