Pompey

Question 1

Who did Pompey marry after Julia

Answer 1

Cornelia Metella, daughter of Mettelus

Question 2

Law providing Crassus- Syria, and Pompey- Spain

Answer 2

The Lex Trebonia, passed by the Tribune Trebonius in 55 BC

Question 3

Mitchell

Answer 3

Pompey ‘wished for power freely given and acclaim gratefully bestowed by a reverential public for glorious achievements in the service of the state.’

Question 4

Steel

Answer 4

If you had asked a Roman at the end of the 60s who the Roman Alexander was, the answer would have been unhesitatingly: Pompey

Question 5

When was pompey granted special command over the corn supply, suggested by Cicero?

Answer 5

57 BC - Amcitia/ public appeal

Question 6

Pompey’s correspondence with Cicero - 49 (unprescribed)

Answer 6

‘I urge you strongly, in the name of your exceptional and unceasing patriotism to help and rescue our sorely afflicted country’.
Importance of Cicero for the pompeians

Question 7

Bradley

Answer 7

His [Pompey’s] career embodied everything that the oligarchy opposed and yet they were responsible for granting him many exceptional appointments.
He was a catallust in the breakdown of the republic
His whole career was a paradox.