Pompey's lean and hungry look Before Caesar it was Pompey - the boy wonder of Rome - who bestrode the world like a colossus, says Peter Jones

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Pompey the Great

by Pat Southern

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SINCE A ROMAN had to be at least 42 before he could gain the top job of consul, competing in the cursus honorum, "race for high office", was a long, steady haul. But not for Pompey, as Pat Southern, author of lives of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and Marc Antony, makes clear in her biography, the first of the man for some 20 years.

In 89 BC, at the tender age of 17, Gnaeus Pompeius served in his father Strabo's army against rebel Italians; at 19, he survived an assassination attempt in the ...

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