85 - Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus Cost of Glory

Life of Pompey Part 3 of 3: Pompey's final rise to the heights of Roman power, his war with his friend Julius Caesar, and his final downfall.  
People:
(M. Tullius) Cicero 
(Titus Pomponius) Atticus 
C. Julius Caesar 
Cn. Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) 
Julia, Caesar's Daughter 
(M. Licinius) Crassus 
(L. Domitius) Ahenobarbus - Optimate Stalwart (Cos. 54) 
(M. Porcius) Cato "The Younger" - the Stoic 
(M. Calpurnius) Bibulus - Cos. 59 
P. Clodius Pulcher - Populist Thug lord 
(T. Annius) Milo - Pompey's Thug lord 
M. Caelius (Rufus) - Cicero's young political analyst friend 
Publius Licinius Crassus - The Richest Man's Son 
Cornelia - Pompey's final wife 
(Q. Caecilius) Metellus (Pius) Scipio - Pompey's new Father in Law 
Aulus Gabinius - Pompey's friend, exiled after Egyptian expedition 
Ptolemy XII Auletes ("The Piper") - exiled king of Egypt 
(C. Scribonius) Curio - Optimate turncoat, Caesar's tribune 
M. Antonius (Mark Antony) 
M. Claudius Marcellus - Optimate stalwart (Cos 51) 
C. Claudius Marcellus - Optimate stalwart (Cos. 50, cousin of Cos. 51) 
M. Favonius - "Stamp, Pompey!" Senator 
Themistocles - Athenian statesman 
Camillus - 4th c. BC Roman statesman 
T. Labienus - Caesar's general, deserted to Pompey 
(M. Junius) Brutus - Future Conspirator 
Theophanes of Mytilene - the Historian 
Crassianus - Caesar's centurion at Pharsalus 
Cratippus of Pergamon - Philosopher at Mytilene 
Ptolemy XIII - Boy king of Egypt 
Potheinus - Ptolemy XIII's Eunuch 
Achillas - Ptolemy XIII's General 
Theodotus - Ptolemy XIII's Rhetoric Teacher 
Philippus - Pompey's freedman   

Places: 
The Roman Forum 
The Tiber River 
Parthia 
Carrhae (Battle of) - in Mesopotamia (Parthian Empire) 
Gaul (Mod. France) 
Pompey's Theater ("Temple of Venus") 
Alesia (Battle of) - in Gaul 
Naples (Neapolis) 
Ravenna (N. Italy, "Cisalpine Gaul" then) 
Rubicon River 
Ariminum (Rimini) 
Corfinium - Italian town in the Apennines 
Brundisium - Eastern Port in Italy 
Dyrrhachium (Mod. Durrës) - in Epirus (Rom. province of Macedonia) 
Thessaly - large plain in central Greece 
Pharsalus - town in Thessaly 
Tempē - Valley in Thessaly 
Mytilene - City on island of Lesbos 

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