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The 35 pages that link to Pompey, each with the reason it gives.

• Roman triumphRelated: His early triumphs advertised military achievement and exceptional political standing.

• Roman civil warsRelated: His alliance and eventual conflict with Caesar illustrate how elite coalitions fractured.

• Gaius MariusRelated: Pompey’s extraordinary commands continued the expansion of military power in politics associated with Marius’s era.

• Lucius Cornelius SullaRelated: Pompey served Sulla as a young commander and gained the title Magnus during Sulla’s ascendancy.

• Gallic WarsRelated: Caesar’s Gallic victories altered the balance of power between them.

• Hasmonean dynastyRelated: His intervention ended Hasmonean sovereignty while leaving members of the family with limited authority.

• Mithridates VI EupatorRelated: Pompey’s victories drove Mithridates from Pontus and ended his resistance.

• Marcus Licinius CrassusRelated: His alliance with Crassus helped form the First Triumvirate, despite their rivalry.

• Roman imperialismRelated: His campaigns reorganized eastern territories and concentrated extraordinary authority in a single commander.

• Caesar's Civil WarRelated: His alliance with the Senate made him the leading opponent of Caesar’s advance.

• First TriumvirateRelated: He sought Senate approval for his eastern settlements and land for his veterans.

• SpartacusRelated: Pompey’s intervention helped him claim credit for ending the uprising.

• Battle of PharsalusRelated: His defeat at Pharsalus ended his contest with Caesar on the battlefield.

• Roman SyriaRelated: His campaign ended Seleucid rule and established Roman authority in Syria.

• Roman conquest of GaulRelated: His alliance with Caesar helped secure the political arrangements behind Caesar’s provincial command.

• Tigranes the GreatRelated: After Lucullus’s campaigns, Pompey compelled Tigranes to surrender his conquests and retain Armenia.

• Cato the YoungerRelated: Cato supported Pompey’s side against Caesar, despite earlier political tensions between them.

• First Mithridatic WarRelated: His campaigns completed the Roman conquest that the First Mithridatic War had begun.

• Mithridatic WarsRelated: His command concluded the final war and reshaped Roman rule in the region.

• PosidoniusRelated: Pompey visited Posidonius on Rhodes during his eastern campaigns.

• Third Mithridatic WarRelated: He replaced Lucullus and completed Rome’s conquest of the eastern kingdoms.

• Battle of ThapsusRelated: The defeated army at Thapsus belonged to the political faction organized around Pompey.

• Third Servile WarRelated: He intercepted some fugitives and claimed credit for helping end the war.

• Battle of MundaRelated: His sons fought at Munda in the political cause their father had led.

• BurebistaRelated: Burebista is associated with Pompey’s side in the civil war against Caesar.

• Battle of TigranocertaRelated: He replaced Lucullus in the East and concluded the war against Mithridates and Tigranes.

• Kingdom of PontusRelated: His settlement dismantled Pontus as an independent kingdom.

• Ptolemy XII AuletesRelated: Ptolemy XII relied on Pompey’s political network and Roman influence to protect his position.

• Servile WarsRelated: His forces intercepted survivors of Spartacus’s army, allowing him to claim a share of the victory.

• Crisis of the Roman RepublicRelated: His rivalry and alliance with Caesar linked elite politics to competing military commands.

• GordyeneRelated: His eastern settlement helped define Roman influence around Gordyene.