Contents
1.
Preface and acknowledgements
1
2.
Introduction: why does the set text matter?
5
3.
Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid
31
The Only Way is Pompey (27)
32
The Perfect General, Pompey the Kid, and Mr. Experience (28)
34
His Excellence (and Excellences) (29)
38
Witnesses to the Truth! (30)
40
Pacifying the Pond, or: Pompey and the Pirates (31)
42
The Pirates of the Mediterranean (32)
44
Pirates ante portas! (33)
46
Pompey's Cruise Control (I): 'I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed' (34)
48
Pompey's Cruise Control (II): 'I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed' (35)
50
'Thou Art More Lovely and More Temperat': Pompey's Soft Sides (36)
52
SPQR Confidential (37)
54
Of Locusts and Leeches (38)
56
Pompey the Peaceful, or: Imperialism with Gloves (39)
58
No Sight-Seeing or Souvenirs for the Perfect General (40)
60
Saint Pompey (41)
62
Peace for our Time (42)
64
Rumour and Renown: Pompey's auctoritas (43)
66
Case Study I: The Socio-Economics of Pompey's auctoritas (44)
68
Case Study II: Pompey's auctoritas and psychological warfare (45)
70
Auctoritas Supreme (46)
72
Felicitas, or how not to 'Sull(a)y' Pompey (47)
74
The Darling of the Gods (48)
76
Summing Up (49)
78
4.
Commentary
81
5.
Further resources
225
Chronological table: the parallel lives of Pompey and Cicero
227
The speech in summary, or: what a Roman citizen may have heard in the forum
229
Translation of 27-49
235
The protagonists: Cicero - Pompey - Manilius
243
The historical context (the contio, imperial expansion, civil wars, the shadow of Sulla, extraordinary commands)
255
List of rhetorical terms
268
6.
Bibliography
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