Untitled Page 06 Last updated Aug 3, 2021 Save as PDF Untitled Page 05 Untitled Page 07 Page ID113118 ( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) 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 Temperate’: 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 275