Gnaeus pompey biography of abraham lincoln

Julius Caesar, Spartacus, Sulla, Marcus Crassus – all these men have had a tremendous impact on the history of Rome and we have done bios on all of them. And each time, we mentioned another man who, in turn, had a great influence on their own lives and careers – Pompey.

He was, arguably, the most successful military leader that Rome had ever known and today we are giving him his due.

It is time for the man himself to take center stage in a special, extended two-part bio as we look at the life and career of Pompey the Great.

Pompey was born Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus on September 29, 106 BC, in the region of Picenum.

He was part of a family that was in the midst of a quick climb up Rome’s social ladder.

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Just a few decades earlier, the name gens Pompeia would have meant nothing to the average Roman. They were, after all, plebeians, meaning that they were free Romans, but not part of the elite patrician class…basically, commoners.

But in 141 BC, a man named