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    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


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