Events Tagged: "Pompey"

Pompey and Crassus consuls - restore tribune powers Sulla removed, rivals forced to cooperate

Pompey clears Mediterranean of pirates - given extraordinary command, clears sea in three months

Pompey conquers Jerusalem - enters Holy of Holies (shocking sacrilege), 12,000 Jews killed, Judea becomes Roman client

First Triumvirate formed - secret alliance of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus to dominate Republic

Battle of Dyrrhachium - Pompey defeats Caesar, doesn't pursue, Caesar: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had a commander who knew how to conquer'

Murder of Pompey - killed on Egyptian beach by Ptolemy XIII trying to please Caesar, Caesar weeps at sight of head