https://lostplays.folger.edu/_mw/index.php?title=Pompey&feed=atom&action=historyPompey - Revision history2024-03-28T15:36:21ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.6https://lostplays.folger.edu/_mw/index.php?title=Pompey&diff=13826&oldid=prevDomenico Lovascio: /* Works Cited */2017-04-15T16:53:06Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Works Cited</span></span></p>
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</table>Domenico Lovasciohttps://lostplays.folger.edu/_mw/index.php?title=Pompey&diff=13825&oldid=prevDomenico Lovascio: /* For What It's Worth */2017-04-15T16:52:33Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">For What It's Worth</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To be sure, in all the extant early modern English plays featuring him as a character, Pompey mainly serves as a foil for Caesar, and whenever his name appears in the title of a play, Caesar's also does.<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To be sure, in all the extant early modern English plays featuring him as a character, Pompey mainly serves as a foil for Caesar, and whenever his name appears in the title of a play, Caesar's also does.<br><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This particular play may have therefore constituted an intriguingly unique exception to the dominant trend in making Pompey the focal point of attention, or even granting him individual treatment, although it seems highly improbable that Caesar did not make any kind of appearance. That there was no other play in early modern England after this one to focus primarily on Pompey may even be interpreted as a sign of the fact that this performance might have been not particularly successful, and that at this point it might have become ultimately clear that Caesar was the more effective of the two heroes on stage.<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This particular play may have therefore constituted an intriguingly unique exception to the dominant trend in making Pompey the focal point of attention, or even granting him individual treatment, although it seems highly improbable that Caesar did not make any kind of appearance.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><br><br></ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Domenico Lovasciohttps://lostplays.folger.edu/_mw/index.php?title=Pompey&diff=13824&oldid=prevDomenico Lovascio: /* For What It's Worth */2017-04-15T16:52:06Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">For What It's Worth</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This particular play may have therefore constituted an intriguingly unique exception to the dominant trend in making Pompey the focal point of attention, or even granting him individual treatment, although it seems highly improbable that Caesar did not make any kind of appearance.<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This particular play may have therefore constituted an intriguingly unique exception to the dominant trend in making Pompey the focal point of attention, or even granting him individual treatment, although it seems highly improbable that Caesar did not make any kind of appearance<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. That there was no other play in early modern England after this one to focus primarily on Pompey may even be interpreted as a sign of the fact that this performance might have been not particularly successful, and that at this point it might have become ultimately clear that Caesar was the more effective of the two heroes on stage</ins>.<br><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is also tantalising to wonder what kind of Pompey the audience may have encountered here, whether the glorious leader the republicans lamentably miss in Thomas Kyd's ''Cornelia'' (1594) – whose alternative title on the 1595 reprint interestingly was ''Pompey the Great His Fair Cornelia's Tragedy'', a further demonstration of Pompey's popularity in the period – or the much more vacillating, resigned and weaker figure appearing in both ''Caesar's Revenge'' ('''Lovascio''', 63—64) and Chapman's ''Caesar and Pompey'' ('''Lovascio''', 92—95). Given that he is, unusually, the titular character here, he may even have been portrayed more positively, perhaps against a hostile depiction of his nemesis Caesar, especially if the play encompassed Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus and his subsequent murder.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is also tantalising to wonder what kind of Pompey the audience may have encountered here, whether the glorious leader the republicans lamentably miss in Thomas Kyd's ''Cornelia'' (1594) – whose alternative title on the 1595 reprint interestingly was ''Pompey the Great His Fair Cornelia's Tragedy'', a further demonstration of Pompey's popularity in the period – or the much more vacillating, resigned and weaker figure appearing in both ''Caesar's Revenge'' ('''Lovascio''', 63—64) and Chapman's ''Caesar and Pompey'' ('''Lovascio''', 92—95). Given that he is, unusually, the titular character here, he may even have been portrayed more positively, perhaps against a hostile depiction of his nemesis Caesar, especially if the play encompassed Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus and his subsequent murder.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pompey was a very well-known historical personality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and appeared in several dramatic writings of the period, such as the anonymous ''Caesar's Revenge'' (''c''. 1595) and George Chapman's ''Caesar and Pompey'' (''c''. 1604), as well as the lost "'''[[Caesar and Pompey]]'''", "'''[[Caesar and Pompey, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Part </del>1<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]'''" </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"'''[[Caesar and Pompey, Part </del>2]]'''". His severed head is also presented to Caesar by the Egyptians in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's ''The False One'' (''c''. 1620), and he may have even figured in the lost "[[Ptolemy#For_What_It's_Worth|'''Ptolemy''']]". <br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pompey was a very well-known historical personality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and appeared in several dramatic writings of the period, such as the anonymous ''Caesar's Revenge'' (''c''. 1595) and George Chapman's ''Caesar and Pompey'' (''c''. 1604), as well as the lost "'''[[Caesar and Pompey]]'''", "'''[[Caesar and Pompey, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Parts </ins>1 and 2]]'''". His severed head is also presented to Caesar by the Egyptians in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's ''The False One'' (''c''. 1620), and he may have even figured in the lost "[[Ptolemy#For_What_It's_Worth|'''Ptolemy''']]". <br><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, with very few exceptions, in the culture of "the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Pompey represented little more than an anti-Caesar, a figure who served as a paragon on occasions when Caesar was a model of iniquity, and a providentially necessary antagonist in the conflict which brought the republic to an end" ('''Cox Jensen''', 94).<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, with very few exceptions, in the culture of "the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Pompey represented little more than an anti-Caesar, a figure who served as a paragon on occasions when Caesar was a model of iniquity, and a providentially necessary antagonist in the conflict which brought the republic to an end" ('''Cox Jensen''', 94).<br><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To be sure, in all the extant early modern English plays featuring him as a character, Pompey mainly serves as a foil for Caesar, and whenever his name appears in the title of a play, Caesar's also does.<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To be sure, in all the extant early modern English plays featuring him as a character, Pompey mainly serves as a foil for Caesar, and whenever his name appears in the title of a play, Caesar's also does.<br><br></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The play must have depicted some portion of the life of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, usually known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great. His life and exploits were handed down to the Renaissance by a variety of sources, especially Plutarch, Appian and Dio Cassius.<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The play must have depicted some portion of the life of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, usually known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great. His life and exploits were handed down to the Renaissance by a variety of sources, especially Plutarch, Appian and Dio Cassius.<br><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pompey (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">106—48BCE</del>) was a military and political leader of the late Roman republic. Still in his early twenties, he obtained a number of resounding military successes in Sicily and Africa during the civil war between Sulla and Gaius Marius the younger. Because of those victories, Sulla was forced to allow him to enter Rome with the army and celebrate a triumph. He also officially granted him the title ''magnus'' (“great”). After Sulla’s abdication (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">79BCE </del>) and death (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">78BCE </del>), Pompey was sent to Spain by the Senate to defeat the army led by Quintus Sertorius, who had reorganised the Marian movement. Pompey subdued Spain and returned to Italy (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">71BCE </del>), where he joined the very last phase of the war against Spartacus and managed to share the honour of victory with Marcus Licinius Crassus. Consequentently, he celebrated his second triumph. The relentless series of his military successes, together with the menacing presence of his troops outside the city, enabled Pompey to advance directly to his first consulship in 70 without having to follow the proper ''cursus honorum'' (he had not even been quaestor when he became consul for the first time).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pompey (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">106—48 BCE</ins>) was a military and political leader of the late Roman republic. Still in his early twenties, he obtained a number of resounding military successes in Sicily and Africa during the civil war between Sulla and Gaius Marius the younger. Because of those victories, Sulla was forced to allow him to enter Rome with the army and celebrate a triumph. He also officially granted him the title ''magnus'' (“great”). After Sulla’s abdication (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">79 BCE</ins>) and death (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">78 BCE</ins>), Pompey was sent to Spain by the Senate to defeat the army led by Quintus Sertorius, who had reorganised the Marian movement. Pompey subdued Spain and returned to Italy (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">71 BCE</ins>), where he joined the very last phase of the war against Spartacus and managed to share the honour of victory with Marcus Licinius Crassus. Consequentently, he celebrated his second triumph. The relentless series of his military successes, together with the menacing presence of his troops outside the city, enabled Pompey to advance directly to his first consulship in 70 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BCE </ins>without having to follow the proper ''cursus honorum'' (he had not even been quaestor when he became consul for the first time).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In order to gain further popular support, Pompey proceeded to dismantle Sulla’s constitution. Subsequently, he seized another opportunity to increase his power, namely the fight against the pirates, whose raids were arousing concerns for maritime communications and Rome’s grain supply. Through the ''lex Gabinia'' of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">67BCE </del>, Pompey gained control over the Mediterranean Sea and its coasts for 50 miles inland. With 500 ships, 20 legions and 5,000 cavalry, he defeated the pirates in a mere forty days; this umpteenth success enabled him to be entrusted with the command of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, whom he brilliantly defeated, thereby annexing as many as four new provinces to the republic: Bithynia et Pontus, Syria, Cilicia and Crete. He returned to Italy in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">62BCE </del>, celebrated his third and last triumph and dismissed his armies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In order to gain further popular support, Pompey proceeded to dismantle Sulla’s constitution. Subsequently, he seized another opportunity to increase his power, namely the fight against the pirates, whose raids were arousing concerns for maritime communications and Rome’s grain supply. Through the ''lex Gabinia'' of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">67 BCE</ins>, Pompey gained control over the Mediterranean Sea and its coasts for 50 miles inland. With 500 ships, 20 legions and 5,000 cavalry, he defeated the pirates in a mere forty days; this umpteenth success enabled him to be entrusted with the command of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, whom he brilliantly defeated, thereby annexing as many as four new provinces to the republic: Bithynia et Pontus, Syria, Cilicia and Crete. He returned to Italy in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">62 BCE</ins>, celebrated his third and last triumph and dismissed his armies.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, as he was not satisfied with the Senate’s hesitations to meet some of his requests, he decided to form an unofficial political alliance with Crassus and Julius Caesar, later known as the First Triumvirate. Caesar secured the consulship for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">59BCE </del>and the proconsulship in Gaul for the ensuing five years, while Pompey obtained the ratification of the measures he had taken in Asia and the distribution of public lands to his veterans. He also married Caesar’s daughter, Julia. Caesar’s appointment in Gaul was renewed for five more years in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">55BCE </del>, when Pompey and Crassus became consuls; one year later, Crassus secured the governorship of Syria and Pompey that of Spain, which he ruled through legates while remaining in Rome. Crassus’s untimely death in Parthia in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">53BCE </del>upset the political balance, leaving Pompey alone against Caesar, who was now very popular and powerful in the wake of his conquest of Gaul. Meanwhile, Julia had died in childbirth along with her baby in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">54BCE </del>, which had broken Pompey and Caesar's family bond. Caesar later offered Pompey his grandniece Octavia as a new wife in order to strike another matrimonial alliance with his rival, but Pompey refused and in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">52BCE </del>he married Cornelia Metella, the widow of Crassus's son and daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, one of Caesar’s sworn enemies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, as he was not satisfied with the Senate’s hesitations to meet some of his requests, he decided to form an unofficial political alliance with Crassus and Julius Caesar, later known as the First Triumvirate. Caesar secured the consulship for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">59 BCE </ins>and the proconsulship in Gaul for the ensuing five years, while Pompey obtained the ratification of the measures he had taken in Asia and the distribution of public lands to his veterans. He also married Caesar’s daughter, Julia. Caesar’s appointment in Gaul was renewed for five more years in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">55 BCE</ins>, when Pompey and Crassus became consuls; one year later, Crassus secured the governorship of Syria and Pompey that of Spain, which he ruled through legates while remaining in Rome. Crassus’s untimely death in Parthia in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">53 BCE </ins>upset the political balance, leaving Pompey alone against Caesar, who was now very popular and powerful in the wake of his conquest of Gaul. Meanwhile, Julia had died in childbirth along with her baby in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">54 BCE</ins>, which had broken Pompey and Caesar's family bond. Caesar later offered Pompey his grandniece Octavia as a new wife in order to strike another matrimonial alliance with his rival, but Pompey refused and in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">52 BCE </ins>he married Cornelia Metella, the widow of Crassus's son and daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, one of Caesar’s sworn enemies.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pompey then disputed Caesar’s right to hold Gaul until the end of 49 and to stand for the consulship ''in absentia'' for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">48BCE </del>. More importantly, he would not allow Caesar to run for consul unless he relinquished his armies. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome with his troops in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">49BCE </del>, Pompey fled to Macedonia, followed by the Senate. There, he levied a considerable army and obtained some successes against Caesar’s troops after their landing in Dyrrachium. Yet, by failing to pursue at such a critical moment for Caesar’s much smaller army, Pompey threw away the opportunity to crush them. Eventually, he let himself be led into a pitched battle at Pharsalus, where he was defeated (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">48BCE </del>). He then sought refuge in Egypt, whose independence he had always championed, but was killed by Achillas, Septimius and Salvius by order of King Ptolemy XIII, who hoped to gain favour with Caesar by murdering his rival.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pompey then disputed Caesar’s right to hold Gaul until the end of 49 and to stand for the consulship ''in absentia'' for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">48 BCE</ins>. More importantly, he would not allow Caesar to run for consul unless he relinquished his armies. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome with his troops in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">49 BCE</ins>, Pompey fled to Macedonia, followed by the Senate. There, he levied a considerable army and obtained some successes against Caesar’s troops after their landing in Dyrrachium. Yet, by failing to pursue at such a critical moment for Caesar’s much smaller army, Pompey threw away the opportunity to crush them. Eventually, he let himself be led into a pitched battle at Pharsalus, where he was defeated (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">48 BCE</ins>). He then sought refuge in Egypt, whose independence he had always championed, but was killed by Achillas, Septimius and Salvius by order of King Ptolemy XIII, who hoped to gain favour with Caesar by murdering his rival.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The play must have depicted some portion of the life of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, usually known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great. His life and exploits were handed down to the Renaissance by a variety of sources, especially Plutarch, Appian and Dio Cassius.<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The play must have depicted some portion of the life of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, usually known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great. His life and exploits were handed down to the Renaissance by a variety of sources, especially Plutarch, Appian and Dio Cassius.<br><br></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In order to gain further popular support, Pompey proceeded to dismantle Sulla’s constitution. Subsequently, he seized another opportunity to increase his power, namely the fight against the pirates, whose raids were arousing concerns for maritime communications and Rome’s grain supply. Through the ''lex Gabinia'' of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">67</del>, Pompey gained control over the Mediterranean Sea and its coasts for 50 miles inland. With 500 ships, 20 legions and 5,000 cavalry, he defeated the pirates in a mere forty days; this umpteenth success enabled him to be entrusted with the command of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, whom he brilliantly defeated, thereby annexing as many as four new provinces to the republic: Bithynia et Pontus, Syria, Cilicia and Crete. He returned to Italy in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">62</del>, celebrated his third and last triumph and dismissed his armies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In order to gain further popular support, Pompey proceeded to dismantle Sulla’s constitution. Subsequently, he seized another opportunity to increase his power, namely the fight against the pirates, whose raids were arousing concerns for maritime communications and Rome’s grain supply. Through the ''lex Gabinia'' of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">67BCE </ins>, Pompey gained control over the Mediterranean Sea and its coasts for 50 miles inland. With 500 ships, 20 legions and 5,000 cavalry, he defeated the pirates in a mere forty days; this umpteenth success enabled him to be entrusted with the command of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, whom he brilliantly defeated, thereby annexing as many as four new provinces to the republic: Bithynia et Pontus, Syria, Cilicia and Crete. He returned to Italy in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">62BCE </ins>, celebrated his third and last triumph and dismissed his armies.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, as he was not satisfied with the Senate’s hesitations to meet some of his requests, he decided to form an unofficial political alliance with Crassus and Julius Caesar, later known as the First Triumvirate. Caesar secured the consulship for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">59 </del>and the proconsulship in Gaul for the ensuing five years, while Pompey obtained the ratification of the measures he had taken in Asia and the distribution of public lands to his veterans. He also married Caesar’s daughter, Julia. Caesar’s appointment in Gaul was renewed for five more years in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">55</del>, when Pompey and Crassus became consuls; one year later, Crassus secured the governorship of Syria and Pompey that of Spain, which he ruled through legates while remaining in Rome. Crassus’s untimely death in Parthia in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">53 </del>upset the political balance, leaving Pompey alone against Caesar, who was now very popular and powerful in the wake of his conquest of Gaul. Meanwhile, Julia had died in childbirth along with her baby in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">54</del>, which had broken Pompey and Caesar's family bond. Caesar later offered Pompey his grandniece Octavia as a new wife in order to strike another matrimonial alliance with his rival, but Pompey refused and in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">52 </del>he married Cornelia Metella, the widow of Crassus's son and daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, one of Caesar’s sworn enemies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, as he was not satisfied with the Senate’s hesitations to meet some of his requests, he decided to form an unofficial political alliance with Crassus and Julius Caesar, later known as the First Triumvirate. Caesar secured the consulship for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">59BCE </ins>and the proconsulship in Gaul for the ensuing five years, while Pompey obtained the ratification of the measures he had taken in Asia and the distribution of public lands to his veterans. He also married Caesar’s daughter, Julia. Caesar’s appointment in Gaul was renewed for five more years in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">55BCE </ins>, when Pompey and Crassus became consuls; one year later, Crassus secured the governorship of Syria and Pompey that of Spain, which he ruled through legates while remaining in Rome. Crassus’s untimely death in Parthia in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">53BCE </ins>upset the political balance, leaving Pompey alone against Caesar, who was now very popular and powerful in the wake of his conquest of Gaul. Meanwhile, Julia had died in childbirth along with her baby in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">54BCE </ins>, which had broken Pompey and Caesar's family bond. Caesar later offered Pompey his grandniece Octavia as a new wife in order to strike another matrimonial alliance with his rival, but Pompey refused and in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">52BCE </ins>he married Cornelia Metella, the widow of Crassus's son and daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, one of Caesar’s sworn enemies.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pompey then disputed Caesar’s right to hold Gaul until the end of 49 and to stand for the consulship ''in absentia'' for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">48</del>. More importantly, he would not allow Caesar to run for consul unless he relinquished his armies. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome with his troops in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">49</del>, Pompey fled to Macedonia, followed by the Senate. There, he levied a considerable army and obtained some successes against Caesar’s troops after their landing in Dyrrachium. Yet, by failing to pursue at such a critical moment for Caesar’s much smaller army, Pompey threw away the opportunity to crush them. Eventually, he let himself be led into a pitched battle at Pharsalus, where he was defeated (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">48</del>). He then sought refuge in Egypt, whose independence he had always championed, but was killed by Achillas, Septimius and Salvius by order of King Ptolemy XIII, who hoped to gain favour with Caesar by murdering his rival.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pompey then disputed Caesar’s right to hold Gaul until the end of 49 and to stand for the consulship ''in absentia'' for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">48BCE </ins>. More importantly, he would not allow Caesar to run for consul unless he relinquished his armies. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome with his troops in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">49BCE </ins>, Pompey fled to Macedonia, followed by the Senate. There, he levied a considerable army and obtained some successes against Caesar’s troops after their landing in Dyrrachium. Yet, by failing to pursue at such a critical moment for Caesar’s much smaller army, Pompey threw away the opportunity to crush them. Eventually, he let himself be led into a pitched battle at Pharsalus, where he was defeated (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">48BCE </ins>). He then sought refuge in Egypt, whose independence he had always championed, but was killed by Achillas, Septimius and Salvius by order of King Ptolemy XIII, who hoped to gain favour with Caesar by murdering his rival.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Domenico Lovasciohttps://lostplays.folger.edu/_mw/index.php?title=Pompey&diff=13818&oldid=prevDomenico Lovascio: /* Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues */2015-07-20T04:47:36Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In order to gain further popular support, Pompey proceeded to dismantle Sulla’s constitution. Subsequently, he seized another opportunity to increase his power, namely the fight against the pirates, whose raids were arousing concerns for maritime communications and Rome’s grain supply. Through the lex Gabinia of 67, Pompey gained control over the Mediterranean Sea and its coasts for 50 miles inland. With 500 ships, 20 legions and 5,000 cavalry, he defeated the pirates in a mere forty days; this umpteenth success enabled him to be entrusted with the command of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, whom he brilliantly defeated, thereby annexing as many as four new provinces to the republic: Bithynia et Pontus, Syria, Cilicia and Crete. He returned to Italy in 62, celebrated his third and last triumph and dismissed his armies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In order to gain further popular support, Pompey proceeded to dismantle Sulla’s constitution. Subsequently, he seized another opportunity to increase his power, namely the fight against the pirates, whose raids were arousing concerns for maritime communications and Rome’s grain supply. Through the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>lex Gabinia<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>of 67, Pompey gained control over the Mediterranean Sea and its coasts for 50 miles inland. With 500 ships, 20 legions and 5,000 cavalry, he defeated the pirates in a mere forty days; this umpteenth success enabled him to be entrusted with the command of the war against Mithridates VI of Pontus, whom he brilliantly defeated, thereby annexing as many as four new provinces to the republic: Bithynia et Pontus, Syria, Cilicia and Crete. He returned to Italy in 62, celebrated his third and last triumph and dismissed his armies.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, as he was not satisfied with the Senate’s hesitations to meet some of his requests, he decided to form an unofficial political alliance with Crassus and Julius Caesar, later known as the First Triumvirate. Caesar secured the consulship for 59 and the proconsulship in Gaul for the ensuing five years, while Pompey obtained the ratification of the measures he had taken in Asia and the distribution of public lands to his veterans. He also married Caesar’s daughter, Julia. Caesar’s appointment in Gaul was renewed for five more years in 55, when Pompey and Crassus became consuls; one year later, Crassus secured the governorship of Syria and Pompey that of Spain, which he ruled through legates while remaining in Rome. Crassus’s untimely death in Parthia in 53 upset the political balance, leaving Pompey alone against Caesar, who was now very popular and powerful in the wake of his conquest of Gaul. Meanwhile, Julia had died in childbirth along with her baby in 54, which had broken Pompey and Caesar's family bond. Caesar later offered Pompey his grandniece Octavia as a new wife in order to strike another matrimonial alliance with his rival, but Pompey refused and in 52 he married Cornelia Metella, the widow of Crassus's son and daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, one of Caesar’s sworn enemies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, as he was not satisfied with the Senate’s hesitations to meet some of his requests, he decided to form an unofficial political alliance with Crassus and Julius Caesar, later known as the First Triumvirate. Caesar secured the consulship for 59 and the proconsulship in Gaul for the ensuing five years, while Pompey obtained the ratification of the measures he had taken in Asia and the distribution of public lands to his veterans. He also married Caesar’s daughter, Julia. Caesar’s appointment in Gaul was renewed for five more years in 55, when Pompey and Crassus became consuls; one year later, Crassus secured the governorship of Syria and Pompey that of Spain, which he ruled through legates while remaining in Rome. Crassus’s untimely death in Parthia in 53 upset the political balance, leaving Pompey alone against Caesar, who was now very popular and powerful in the wake of his conquest of Gaul. Meanwhile, Julia had died in childbirth along with her baby in 54, which had broken Pompey and Caesar's family bond. Caesar later offered Pompey his grandniece Octavia as a new wife in order to strike another matrimonial alliance with his rival, but Pompey refused and in 52 he married Cornelia Metella, the widow of Crassus's son and daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica, one of Caesar’s sworn enemies.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To be sure, in all the extant early modern English plays featuring him as a character, Pompey mainly serves as a foil for Caesar, and whenever his name appears in the title of a play, Caesar's also does.<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To be sure, in all the extant early modern English plays featuring him as a character, Pompey mainly serves as a foil for Caesar, and whenever his name appears in the title of a play, Caesar's also does.<br><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This particular play may have therefore constituted an intriguingly unique exception to the dominant trend in making Pompey the focal point of attention, or even granting him individual treatment, although it seems highly improbable that Caesar did not make any kind of appearance.<br><br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This particular play may have therefore constituted an intriguingly unique exception to the dominant trend in making Pompey the focal point of attention, or even granting him individual treatment, although it seems highly improbable that Caesar did not make any kind of appearance.<br><br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is also tantalising to wonder what kind of Pompey the audience may have encountered here, whether the glorious leader the republicans lamentably miss in Thomas Kyd's ''Cornelia'' (1594) – whose alternative title on the 1595 reprint interestingly was ''Pompey the Great His Fair Cornelia's Tragedy'', a further demonstration of Pompey's popularity in the period – or the much more vacillating, resigned and weaker figure appearing in both ''Caesar's Revenge'' ('''Lovascio''', 63—64) and Chapman's ''Caesar and Pompey'' ('''Lovascio''', 92—95). Given that he is, unusually, the titular character here, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">one might expect him to </del>have been portrayed more positively, perhaps against a hostile depiction of his nemesis Caesar, especially if the play encompassed Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus and his subsequent death.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is also tantalising to wonder what kind of Pompey the audience may have encountered here, whether the glorious leader the republicans lamentably miss in Thomas Kyd's ''Cornelia'' (1594) – whose alternative title on the 1595 reprint interestingly was ''Pompey the Great His Fair Cornelia's Tragedy'', a further demonstration of Pompey's popularity in the period – or the much more vacillating, resigned and weaker figure appearing in both ''Caesar's Revenge'' ('''Lovascio''', 63—64) and Chapman's ''Caesar and Pompey'' ('''Lovascio''', 92—95). Given that he is, unusually, the titular character here, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he may even </ins>have been portrayed more positively, perhaps against a hostile depiction of his nemesis Caesar, especially if the play encompassed Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus and his subsequent death.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Domenico Lovascio