Pompeia (daughter of Sextus Pompey)

Pompeia Magna (* around 42 BC) was the granddaughter of the Roman triumvir Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus of the plebeian family of the gens Pompeia . She was the daughter of Sextus Pompeius and his wife Scribonia , the daughter of the consul from 34 BC. BC, Lucius Scribonius Libo . Her aunt's name was also Pompeia .

As Sextus Pompeius in the summer of 39 BC BC reached a (temporary) understanding with the two triumvirs Marcus Antonius and Octavian in the Treaty of Misenum, the engagement of Pompeia to Marcus Claudius Marcellus , son of Octavian's sister Octavia Minor , was decided to confirm the agreement reached between the three rulers . However, the toddlers, who were only around three years old at the time of their engagement, never married.

The last surviving news about Pompeia is that she told her father in 36 BC. When he fled to Asia Minor after his final defeat by Octavian . Due to a lack of sources, Pompeia's further résumé is unknown. Research has suggested that she was the wife of Lucius Scribonius Libo, son of the consul of the same name from 34 BC. BC, was. In this case she would have married her maternal uncle and would have become the mother of at least three children: Lucius Scribonius Libo , consul from 16 AD, Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus , who committed suicide under Emperor Tiberius in 16 AD , and Scribonia, who wed Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi , the consul of 27 AD. However, recent reconstructions assume that it was a cousin of the daughter of Sextus Pompeius, daughter of the suffect consul in 32 BC. Chr., Lucius Cornelius Cinna , and the daughter of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus.

literature

Franz Miltner : Pompeius 55). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXI, 2, Stuttgart 1952, Col. 2264.
William Ramsay: Pompeia, Daughter of Sex. Pompey Magnus, the son of the triumvir 5 . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . tape 3 : Oarses-Zygia and Zygius . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1870, p. 473 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Remarks

↑ ^a ^b Stemma in Prosopographia Imperii Romani VII, II, p. 103 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
^ Appian : Civil Wars. 5, 73, 312;
Cassius Dio 48, 38, 3; on this Jochen Bleicken , Augustus. Berlin 1998, p. 205.
^ Cassius Dio 49, 11, 1.
↑ Max Fluß : Scribonius 21) and 23). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 1, Stuttgart 1921, Col. 885 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Pompeia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pompeia Magna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Daughter of Sextus Pompey
DATE OF BIRTH	around 42 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: after 36 BC Chr.

[stemma-1] Stemma in Prosopographia Imperii Romani VII, II, p. 103 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[2] Appian : Civil Wars. 5, 73, 312;
Cassius Dio 48, 38, 3; on this Jochen Bleicken , Augustus. Berlin 1998, p. 205.

[3] Cassius Dio 49, 11, 1.

[4] Max Fluß : Scribonius 21) and 23). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 1, Stuttgart 1921, Col. 885 f.