Pompey the Great

Family: Roman · Role: former leader · First appears: Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene I

Life events

• Caesar's triumph over Pompey prompts citizens to celebrate a holiday.(Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene I · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “we make holiday to see Caesar, and to rejoice in his triumph.”
• Public support begins shifting Pompey the Great’s dignities onto his son Sextus Pompeius.(Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II)
  • With: Sextus Pompeius
  • “Our slippery people, Whose love is never linked to the deserver Till his deserts are past, begin to throw Pompey the Great and all his dignities Upon his son”

Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene I

• enemies with Julius Caesar “And do you now strew flowers in his way, / That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood?”

Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II

• child: Sextus Pompeius “begin to throw Pompey the Great and all his dignities Upon his son, who, high in name and power, Higher than both in blood and life, stands up For the main soldier;”

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Roman Plays. Made with Rho MD.