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In Renaissance Britain, too, several plays returned to the subject of "Caesar and Pompey", including George Chapman's The Wars of Pompey and Caesar (c. 1604). Another contemporary treatment by Thomas Kyd , Cornelia, or Pompey the Great, his faire Cornelia's tragedy (1594), was a translation from the French of Robert Garnier . [ 146 ]
Pompey enters the Jerusalem Temple. Painting by Jean Fouquet, after an event recorded by Flavius Josephus in The Antiquities of the Jews.. The siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) occurred during Pompey the Great's campaigns in the East, shortly after his successful conclusion of the Third Mithridatic War.
Septimius (in armour) strikes Pompey from behind. 1880 illustration. Lucius Septimius was a Roman soldier and mercenary who is principally remembered as one of the assassins of the triumvir Pompey the Great. At the time of the assassination in 48 BC, Septimius was serving the Ptolemies of Egypt as a mercenary.
Pompey's army lost the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC and Pompey himself had to run for his life. Cornelia and Sextus met him in the island of Lesbos and together they fled to Egypt. [2] Upon arrival, Sextus watched his father being killed by treachery on 29 September of the same year.
Labienus was killed on the field; Gnaeus Pompey escaped, but was captured and beheaded shortly thereafter. [132] While Sextus Pompey was able to flee into hiding and there was a small revolt on the other side of the Mediterranean in Syria under Quintus Caecilius Bassus which persisted, [133] the civil war was over. [124]
At this point, defeated Roman general Pompey the Great came to Egypt seeking refuge from his pursuing rival Julius Caesar. Initially, Ptolemy XIII pretended to have accepted his request, but on 29 September 48 BC, he had the general murdered by Achillas and Lucius Septimius in hopes of winning favor with Caesar when the victorious general arrived.
A year later, Pompey is camped at Dyrrachium, having gathered reinforcements. Caesar has landed and Flaccus has been sent to attack him. Though Flaccus is killed, the rest of the army resists and Caesar sues for peace. For strategic reasons, Pompey refuses, having previously decided on war to the end.
Pompey's cavalry panicked and suffered hundreds of casualties, as Caesar's cavalry came about [42] and charged after them. After failing to reform, the rest of Pompey's cavalry retreated to the hills, leaving the left wing of his legions exposed to the hidden troops as Caesar's cavalry wheeled around their flank.