Research Catalog

Title

Sextus Pompeius / editors, Anton Powell and Kathryn Welch ; contributors, Alain M. Gowing ... [et al.].

Publication

Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; London : Duckworth ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor], 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Powell, Anton.
• Welch, Kathryn.
• Gowing, Alain M., 1953-

Description

xvii, 285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Pompeius Magnus Pius, Sextus, approximately 67 B.C.-35 B.C
• Generals > Rome > Biography
• Statesmen > Rome > Biography
• Rome > History > Civil War, 43-31 B.C

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Anton Powell -- Both sides of the coin: Sextus Pompeius and the so-called Pompeiani / Kathryn Welch -- Sextus Pompeius and the Res Publica in 42-39 BC / Kathryn Welch -- Sextus Pompeius and Spain: 46-44 BC / Benedict J. Lowe -- "An island amid the flame": the strategy and imagery of Sextus Pompeius, 43-36 BC / Anton Powell -- Sextus Pompeius, Octavianus and Sicily / Shelley C. Stone III -- Pompeian and Scribonian descendents in the Early Empire / Hugh Lindsay -- Pirates, witches and slaves: the imperial afterlife of Sextus Pompeius / Alain M. Gowing -- Horace and the pirates / Lindsay Watson -- Magno proles indigna parente: the role of Sextus Pompeius in Lucan's Bellum civile / Charles Tesoriero -- Lucan's Sextus Pompeius episode: its necromantic, political and literary background / Daniel Ogden.

Call Number

JFE 02-19477

ISBN

0715631276

OCLC

48629161

Title

Sextus Pompeius / editors, Anton Powell and Kathryn Welch ; contributors, Alain M. Gowing ... [et al.].

Imprint

Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; London : Duckworth ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor], 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Powell, Anton.

Welch, Kathryn.

Gowing, Alain M., 1953-

Research Call Number

JFE 02-19477