POMPEY MAGNUS: FROM ROMAN TRIUMPH TO NILE ANNIHILATION

POMPEY MAGNUS: FROM ROMAN TRIUMPH TO NILE ANNIHILATION By Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) & Janet Kira Lessin Prologue: The Boy Who Would Be Great The streets of Rome still smoldered from civil war when Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, just twenty-three years old, strode into history. His father, once disgraced for corruption, had left …

ROME’S TRIBUNES (121–88 BCE)

ROME’S TRIBUNES (121–88 BCE) 📽️ Watch the VIDEO here — click the words “THE FIFTH CENTURY BCE” to start it. By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) Peruse the video on Tribunes in the post below this one. Backstory The 121 BCE murder of Tribune Gaius Gracchus, who had championed the Plebeians in the Senate, …