#pompey strabo

[duxfemina]

Okay I know what books I want to write I'm just struggling on where I should start. So poll time...

Which order would you prefer as a reader?

Novels on Pompeius Magnus first then Sextus, then Pompeius (daughter of Sextus)

Pompeia first then Pompeius Magnus then Sextus

Pompeia first then Sextus then Pompeius Magnus

Voting ended onFeb 15, 2024

*Pompeia

In that first option bloody autocorrect hates me

Because like I know I want to start with either Pompeius Magnus for a chronological take or with Pompeia for a backwards order of some sort. Possibly having her compile her family history in her novel and then writing the novels about her predecessors like they're her work. I dunno. Starting a book is always the hardest but my head is so full of ideas.

[duxfemina]

Timeline of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo

103 - Strabo serves as Quaestor in Sardinia

102 - Strabo seeks to prosecute Titus Albucius the pro Praetor he served under in Sardinia 

94 - Strabo serves as Praetor 

93 - Strabo made Governor of Sicily 

90 - probably spring - Strabo defeated at Mount Falernus by Ventidus & Scato 

90 - Strabo besieged in Firmum 

90 - Strabo breaks out and attacks Lafrenius’ army and L. Is slain and his troops flee to Asculum 

90 - Siege of Asculum begins

90 - winter - Strabo returns to Rome to stand for consul 

89 - Strabo elected consul 

89 - Strabo intercepts an Italian army heading across the Apennines from the Adriatic to Etruria trying to spread the revolt

89 - Fall - Siege of Asculum breaks Strabo orders the prominent men of the city beaten and beheaded, slaves sold and all others to leave the city

89 - Strabo proposes Latin Rights to Cisalpine Gaul 

89 - December - Strabo given triumph 

88 - Strabo fails reelection to consulship 

88 - Outbreak of Sullan Civil War and Rome is seized 

88 - Quintus Pompeius Rufus sent to take command of Strabo’s army and murdered by some of his men 

87 - Strabo and his army come to Rome but their allegiances are not known 

87 - Cinna recruits Lucius Terentius the tent mate of Pompeius Magnus to lead an assassination and coup in Strabo’s camp

87 - assassination of Strabo foiled by Pompeius Magnus 

87 - 800 of Strabo's men do leave but most are convinced to remain by Pompeius Magnus 

87 - Cinna’s actions force Strabo to choose the side of Octavius and the Senate

87 - Strabo and Octavius expel Marius and Cinna's forces from the city of Rome

87 - Strabo is killed by lightning strike and his body is drug from its bier and disrespected 

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This is going to be edited with links to posts about other figures referenced as I make them. I'm using this for my research but figured I would share for those interested in the Pompeius gens. I will be making timelines for other family members as I research and adding any new information I find on Strabo to this one