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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.

Free Download The Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC): Caesar, Pompey, and the Early Campaigns of the Third Roman Civil War by Gareth C Sampson
English | May 12, 2022 | ISBN: 152679358X | 248 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
In 49 BC the Roman Republic collapsed once more into bloody civil war. At the heart of this war lay the two greatest living Roman commanders, and former allies, Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar, each having built their own factions within the Roman oligarchy and refusing to compromise. The subsequent civil war would be fought for control of the Republic with each man determined to restore peace and stability to Rome, under their leadership. Yet despite this clash it was eighteen months before the two men met in Battle at Dyrrhachium in Albania.

Free Download Jonathan Meades, "Pompey: A Novel"
English | 2013 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 1783520205 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
At first glance, Jonathan Meades’s 1993 masterpiece Pompey is a post-war family saga set in and around the city of Portsmouth. This doesn’t come close to communicating the scabrous magnificence of Meades’s vision. He writes like Martin Amis on acid, creating an obscene, suppurating vision of an England in terminal decline. The story begins with Guy Vallender, a fireworks manufacturer from Portsmouth (Pompey), who has four children by four different women. There’s Poor Eddie, a feeble geek with a gift for healing; "Mad Bantu," the son of a black prostitute, who was hopelessly damaged in the womb by an attempted abortion; Bonnie, who is born beautiful but becomes a junkie and a porn star; and finally Jean-Marie, a leather-wearing gay gerontophiliac conceived on a one-night stand in Belgium. The narrator is "Jonathan Meades," cousin to Poor Eddie and Bonnie, who tells the story of how their strange and poisonous destinies intersect. And although there is no richer stew of perversity, voyeurism, corruption, religious extremism, and curdled celebrity in all of English literature, there is also an underlying compassion and a jet-black humor which makes Pompey an important and strangely satisfying work of art. Prepare to enter the English novel’s darkest ride.

Free Download The Battle of Dyrrhachium, 48 BC: Caesar, Pompey, and the Early Campaigns of the Third Roman Civil War by Gareth C. Sampson
English | May 19th, 2022 | ISBN: 152679358X | 248 pages | True EPUB | 15.86 MB
An in-depth study of the rivalry between two of Rome’s greatest military commanders-and the battle where they met in combat.

Free Download The Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
by Gareth C Sampson;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1526793628 | 234 pages | True PDF EPUB | 16.99 MB

Free Download Adam Hook, "Pharsalus 48 BC: Caesar and Pompey – Clash of the Titans"
English | 2006 | pages: 100 | ISBN: 1846030021 | PDF | 38,7 mb
Increasing tension between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) after the death of Marcus Licinius Crassus soon degenerated into military conflict. With his hand considerably strengthened by his election as Dictator by the Senate in Rome, Caesar knew that power would only be a reality once he had militarily defeated Pompey. By August 49BC, Caesar had effectively destroyed Pompey’s armies in Spain, but, by the time he had crossed the Adriatic pursuing him eastward, his forces were heavily outnumbered. Even with the reinforcements brought by Mark Antony, his attempt to crush Pompey by laying siege to Dyrrachium was unsuccessful and he eventually had to withdrew into Thessaly, with Pompey in pursuit.