Pompeia (daughter of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus)

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Pompeia († before 35 BC) was the daughter of the Roman statesman and triumvir Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and his third wife Mucia Tertia . She was first married to Faustus Cornelius Sulla , the son of the dictator Sulla , and her second marriage to a Lucius Cornelius Cinna. Her niece, the daughter of her brother Sextus Pompeius , was also called Pompeia .

Life

Despite the promise that Faustus Cornelius Sulla should receive the hand of Pompeias, their father initially dissolved in 59 BC. This intended marriage alliance. At that time Pompeius Magnus married Gaius Iulius Caesar's daughter Iulia as part of his alliance policy , although she was already engaged to a Quintus Servilius Caepio (who is perhaps identical with the later conspirator Marcus Junius Brutus ). As compensation, Caepio was now offered to marry Pompeia.

However, there was no wedding between Pompeia and Caepio. After Julia died young (54 BC), Caesar toyed with the idea of ​​his marriage to Pompeia in order to maintain the alliance with her father; however, this project was not carried out. Pompeia finally got married to Faustus Sulla. The couple had two children.

When the civil war between Pompey and Caesar broke out (49 BC), Faustus Sulla took the side of his father-in-law and accompanied him to the eastern theater of war. Pompeia was presumably at her husband's side at all times. This escaped from the defeat at Pharsalus (48 BC) to North Africa. When the Pompeians were defeated again in the Battle of Thapsus (46 BC), Faustus Sulla fled via Utica to Mauritania , where he was seized and executed. Pompeia and her two children also fell into the hands of Caesar's followers, but the exact time of their capture is told differently: According to the military historian Appian , it already took place in Utica, according to the author of the African War , which is part of Caesar's corpus of writings, at the same time as the arrest of Faustus Sulla. Both authors report that Pompeia and her children were spared, so that the assertion of some Livy epitomators that they were executed on Caesar's orders is to be regarded as incorrect.

The speaker Marcus Tullius Cicero rejected a marriage to Pompeia, which was proposed to him not long after Faustus Sulla's death. Either a brother-in-law of Caesar, Lucius Cornelius Cinna , or the suffect consul of the same name from 32 BC. However, Pompeia married. For some time she lived with her brother Sextus Pompeius in Sicily . When little Tiberius , who later became emperor, 40 BC. BC was brought to Sicily by his parents on the run from Octavian , he received several gifts from Pompeia. According to Seneca , Pompeia died before her brother Sextus, i.e. before the year 35 BC. Chr.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ So Sempronius [I 15]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 465.
  2. ^ Suetonius , Caesar 21; Plutarch , Caesar 14, 3; Pompey 47, 6; Cassius Dio 38, 9, 1, Appian , Civil Wars 2, 14, 50; on this Luciano Canfora : Caesar, the democratic dictator . Beck, Munich 2001, p. 79.
  3. ↑ Suetonius, Caesar 27, 1.
  4. ↑ Cassius Dio 42, 13, 3.
  5. ^ African War 87, 8 and 95, 1-3; among others
  6. ^ Appian, Civil Wars 2, 100, 416.
  7. ↑ African War 95, 1-3.
  8. ↑ Florus 2:13 , 90; Orosius 6, 16, 5.
  9. ↑ Franz Miltner : Pompeius 54). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXI, 2, Stuttgart 1952, Col. 2264.
  10. ↑ Cicero , Epistulae ad Atticum 12, 11.
  11. ↑ Cassius Dio 55, 14, 1; Seneca , De clementia 1, 9, 2.
  12. ↑ Suetonius, Tiberius 6, 3.
  13. ↑ Seneca, De Consolatione ad Polybium 15, 1.
personal data
SURNAME Pompeia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Gnaeus Pompey Magnus
DATE OF BIRTH before 59 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH before 35 BC Chr.