83 - Pompey I: Kid Butcher

03/19/24 • 81 min

Pompey, the Great. Part 1 of 3. Pompey's rise to become one of Rome's greatest generals - before he's even old enough to hold office. How he got the nickname of "Kid Butcher" or "The Butcher Boy".

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Key Names:
Agesilaus of Sparta
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Pompeius STRABO (father)
Social War
Gaius MARIUS (populist consul)
Lucius Cornelius CINNA (populist consul)
Lucius Cornelius SULLA (optimate consul & dictator)
MITHRIDATES - King of Pontus
Gnaeus Papirius CARBO (populist consul)
Antistia (first wife)
Marcus Licinius CRASSUS
Marcus Aemilus LEPIDUS (rebel consul)
Marcus Junius BRUTUS (Father of the conspirator)
Quintus Lutatius CATULUS (optimate stalwart)
Quintus Sertorius
Quintus Caecilus METELLUS PIUS (P's fellow general in Spain)
Marcus PERPERNA (populist ally of Sertorius)
Spartacus
Marcus Terentius VARRO (the scholar)
Lucius Licinius LUCULLUS (rival general)
Quintus HORTENSIUS Hortalus (optimate stalwart)
Aulus GABINIUS (P's tribune buddy)
The Pirates
"Quirites" (the Roman citizenry)

Key Places:
Rome
Picenum
Asculum
North Africa
Mutina
Spain
Lauron
Sucro River
Ostia (Rome's port)

[Jeremy Giffon on Invest like the Best Podcast, ep. 336: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Vdv5i250hF6EfzOTML9RE?si=98bacff34a7244e9]

Pompey, the Great. Part 1 of 3. Pompey's rise to become one of Rome's greatest generals - before he's even old enough to hold office. How he got the nickname of "Kid Butcher" or "The Butcher Boy".

Thanks to our Sponsor, Intercollegiate Studies Institute! www.isi.org

Key Places:
Rome
Picenum
Asculum
North Africa
Mutina
Spain
Lauron
Sucro River
Ostia (Rome's port)

[Jeremy Giffon on Invest like the Best Podcast, ep. 336: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Vdv5i250hF6EfzOTML9RE?si=98bacff34a7244e9]

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...Plutarch offers some advice on how to choose your friends, and how to be a good one. Examples include Alexander the Great, Cato, Carneades, Plato, Dionysius the Tyrant, and more.

(Here depicted: the monument of Philopappus in Athens, to whom Plutarch's essay is dedicated)

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84 - Pompey II: Empire of Venus

Pompey becomes Rome’s greatest conqueror, and empire builder, but faces even greater trials back home in Rome.

People

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, "Pompey the Great"
Sulla Felix, the Dictator

Pompey

The Pirates

Posidonius the Stoic

Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus

Lucius Licinius Lucullus

Cicero, the Orator

Manilius, the Tribune

Julius Caesar

Theophanes of Mytilene

Queen Monime

Tigranes the Great of Armenia

Tigranes the Younger, Prince

Albani(ans) of Caucasus

Iberians of Caucasus

King Phraates of Parthia

The Parthians

Antiochus XIII, Seleucid King

Aretas, King of the Nabatean Arabs

Aristobulus of Judea

Hyrcanus of Judea

Aulus Gabinius

Josephus (Jewish Historian)

Marcus Licinius Crassus, Richest Man in Rome

Marcus Porcius Cato (the Younger)

Metellus Celer

Metellus Nepos

M. Calpurnius Bibulus

Publius Clodius Pulcher, Slum Lord

Milo

Julia

Domitius Ahenobarbus

Places

Sicily

Sardinia

Corsica

North Africa

Rhodes

Cilicia

Cappadocia

Galatia

Armenia

Artaxata

Mt Ararat

Sophene

Syria

Bithynia

Pontus

Caucasus

Colchis

Albania (Caucasus)

Iberia (Caucasus)

Bosphoran Kingdom (Crimea / Azov)

Damascus

Petra (Arabia)

Judea

Jordan River Valley

Jericho

Jerusalem

Campus Martius

Alban Hills / Lake / Villa

Luca

Image: The Triumph of Pompey, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1765. Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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