Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic (Roman Culture in an Age of Civil War) by Kathryn Welch (PDF)

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Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily into narratives of Rome’s civil war of 49-31BC. Ronald Syme, father of international orthodoxy, stated that Sextus was ‘in reality an adventurer’ who was ‘easily represented as a pirate’. He was wrong. Sextus Pompeius plays havoc with orthodox history. His military success punctures the myth of continuous Caesarian victory. His systematic rescuing of the victims of Triumviral violence belies the claim that only the Caesarian side represented clementia and justice. His naval strategy reveals his commitment to the same cause and ethics as his father and his father’s allies. Indeed, Pompey the Great and his Republican allies can only be understood, Welch shows, by a study of his gifted, resilient and ultimately unlucky son. Welch places Sextus Pompeius at the centre of Rome’s transition from Republic to Empire and so reveals an ideological landscape very different from 20th-century representations.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “The book is well written and illustrated, and Welch writes in a lively style that engages the reader easily. Her reconstruction of the events between 44 and 35 BC provides new insights and challenges older models, and students of the late Republic and the early Augustan Principate will certainly want to read this book for the important new perspectives it brings to these periods. Welch’s text is a welcome reassessment of the final decades of the Republic, and it may lead more than one professor to rethink how he or she presents Sextus Pompeius in lectures. ” (Fred K. Drogula, Providence College Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2013.07.43)”Recommended. Graduate students/faculty.” (K.W. Harl, Tulane University Choice, July 2013 Vol. 50, No. 11) About the Author Kathryn Welch is an internationally-recognised authority on the politics of late-Republican Rome and the civil war period, on which she has published numerous papers. With Anton Powell, she edited Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter (1998) and Sextus Pompeius (2002), and with T.W. Hillard, Roman Crossings: Theory and practice in the Roman Republic (2005). She is currently preparing, with Kai Brodersen, a volume of papers on Appian’s histories of Roman civil conflict. Kathryn Welch teaches at the University of Sydney.

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⭐Kathryn Welch deserves more than 5 stars if this book is to be graded on the amount of work she obviously had to put in. The book is very well written and the binding and pages are perfect. I know she just needed more time … and she had to have spent more than three years! I applaud her.I am trying to to figure out Sextus Pompeius’ (Magnus Pius) relationship to Aemilia Lepida. I am convinced that he was her grandfather and that Sextus and Aemilia’s other grandfather (Triumvir Lepidus) shared the same philosophy. Also, Aemilia’s and her second husband, Mamercus weresecond-cousins because they had the same great-grandmother (Mucia Tertia). Aemilia and Mamercus were both charged (separate incidents) with practicing magic (prophecy). Mamercus and his new wife Sextia committed suicide in around AD 30, and Sextia is also related to Mamercus and Aemilia somehow. Aemilia gets relegated to somewhere. She had a daughter with Mamercus (not a son … there is more than one Tacitus translation of the divorce involving Sulpicius). My studies have Aemilia and the woman at the well being the same person and the daughter is Mary Magdalene. I bought Prof. Welch’s book hoping to get more genealogy and I did, but nothing close to my thinking. I recommend this book and thanks Prof. Welch.

⭐Très bon livre sur un personnage méconnu en France, Sextus Pompée, le fils du triumvir. Si ce dernier a été bien étudié par divers savants, Van Ooteghem entre autres, son fils cadet souffre d’un manque d’intérêt certain. K. Welch répare cette injustice avec talent. Vivement recommandé.

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