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Pompey the Great and the Rise of the First Triumvirate
In 60 BCE, three men formed a secret political alliance that would tear the Roman Republic apart. This episode explores how Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus — Pompey the Great — climbed from military prodigy to Rome's most powerful general, then joined forces with Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus in the First Triumvirate. We trace Pompey's stunning campaigns against the pirates of Cilicia and King Mithridates VI of Pontus, the Senate's desperate attempts to contain him, and the fragile power-sharing pact that eventually led to civil war. Along the way, we meet Cicero's…
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