Free Download Pompey the Great: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Roman General Who Lost the Civil War to Julius Caesar (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882239380 | 2024 | 1 hour and 28 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 203 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson
Thanks to Caesar’s victory in the civil war, Pompey is mostly remembered not for being one of Rome’s greatest generals, but for being defeated by Caesar and then ignominiously murdered after he fled to Egypt, where the boy pharaoh Ptolemy XIII decapitated Pompey and offered his head to Caesar as a gift. Although Caesar was there chasing Pompey’s men, he quickly became involved in Egypt’s own civil war. As a consequence of Ptolemy’s barbarity, Caesar impulsively decided to side with his sister Cleopatra in her bid for the throne of Egypt, escalating what was rapidly becoming an all-out civil war. Of course, before the civil war, Pompey was one of the most powerful men in Rome. Gnaeus Pompeius was born on September 29, 106 BCE and went on to become regarded as one of the greatest statesmen and generals of the late Roman Republic. He was given the title "the Great" by his troops in Africa in 82 BCE and assumed the cognomen Magnus after 81 BCE.
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