I'm loving these videos. Did you ever read the Asterix books?

What a lovely personal insight! I always love to hear how that ancient history bug bit others.

Pompey the Great. No one can legitimately deny his achievements as a commander. His downfall was that he was set by the Senate against Gaius Julius Caesar, against the Legions that had crushed the Gauls!!

My own opinion is that Alexander’s real life story (as we understand it) is so filled with extremes in action and personality, so peppered with semi-mythical moments that ironically the more accurate and comprehensive they try and be, the more it plays as melodrama.

Great book Adrian Gold. Love me some Alexander scholarship and Philip is unsung hero for creating the world conquering army

A long-winded way to say, 'Ceasar had troops, Pompey had a police force'

I feel weird trying to,condradict you, but I do believe that Caesar on multiple occasions describes himself as charging into the fight in vulnerable areas to encourage troops on the edge of breaking.

When I was homeschooling my children and trying to decide how to teach history I remembered being hopelessly lost and totally bored with history classes in my schools. At the same time I was deeply fascinated by history itself, reading voraciously outside of school. So eschewing textbooks, I took them chronologically through history by reading aloud world literature starting with the Laws of Hammurabi. For each period of history each child would also have a personal stash of age appropriate historical fiction to help make it “stick”. Also so many maps…..and archeological “evidence”. We really do need multiple streams of information to open our minds to our past. It’s wonderful that you contribute both fiction and non fiction writing.

Roman Warfare was my first work of yours. This was 2015, I was in 8th grade, in that time I had been experiencing the same type of teenage years you describe. That book, along with the many others I have read and collected since, has had a profound impact on my development as a scholar, but especially contributed greatly to my development as a writer. You were precisely the reason every teacher I had between the ages of 13-19 were made to read through my latest attempt to bend the rules of whatever given assignment or paper I had into a canvas by which I could articulate my latest dream of 3rd century cataphract Decurions and soldiers on the Mius front LOL. Now these wonderful instructors of mine always expressed excitement at what I had provided them, even if it was really quite obvious that writing about cataphracts meant that I did not in fact, respond to the prompt, they vehemently encouraged me to pursue writing in a more involved capacity. I suppose the true value of school lies in fostering such positive intellectual pursuits, not hammering arithmetic. I think I was aware of this through grade school, but I suppose I didn’t internalize that until I was out of university haha. Thank you for being you, and writing what you have written. :)

3:55 if you want to skip the opening preamble

He defeated Caesar on the battlefield. A B grade in Grand Strategy though.

Nice topic. Alas, my 12 books are all tech, nerd stuff. 2 yers after being written it is obsolete.

How you do research for both novels and nonfiction would be interesting to hear from a professional. When reading, do you take notes seperately, highlight sections, or maybe mark sections with book tags so you can easily return to parts of a book that captured your interest? I see all these historians with clean books, and I refuse to believe people just read and remember everything and re-read whole books all the time. Thank you.

Really liked this personal video today. Lots of familiar feelings for me personally, I'm studying classics and history, and I would like to write a book someday.

Caesar did have to fight at Munda though with a collapsing army around him. That's got to take something.

Cato is such trash. The worst of the Romans

fame? writing is better than teaching spoiled kids at Oxbridge?

I understand you enjoyed the "Sharpe" novels. My history teacher in my senior year got me onto "Flashman" novels

Its often begins with chilhood

Wow I'm so very lucky to have found this channel -- instant sub

Cato sounds like an American Democrat. Trying to end Trump's career with a kangaroo court.

Imagine what a team Pompey and Caesar could have made in combat ie; Caesars dash and daring/being able to read the monent at the tactical level and Pompeys abilities at the strategic level.

It's funny how these people have obsessions with previous heroes and try to be them. Then you get into the early modern era and generals try to be like these people trying to be like other people. Interesting layers.

Am i a fool or is it not unfair to not factor in the roman mentality in this? Pompey must have felt as if he had no choice to fight, if he's ever going to be a revered ancestor or live up to expectations; he probably felt that after caecar crossed the rubicon he was left no choice. Please inform me if im wrong

He was also *A CONSUL OF ROME*

One thing that stands out to me about pompeii is he must of been very pragmatic. He was fortunate he had such immense power and was able to essentially rule as he saw fit, however he does seem like a fair and honest ruler, much different to normal Roman governance where it seems the publicani were pulling the strings

How did three legions worth of men on Pompey’s estates become soldiers? It seems they would lack training and equipment, or were they republican soldiers since earlier and Pompey started paying them?

Goths elegibly came from Sweden, not Denmark 😏

I've just discovered this channel, absolutely love ALL your Roman history books (s/o Derick Perkins also on the audiobooks). Looking forward to catching up on these vids, cheers from Denver CO!

Caesar understood the propaganda game a lot better than Pompey. If Pompey wanted to be cautious, he should have pulled all his resources back to Greece and Africa, forcing Caesar to try and occupy Gaul, Spain and Italy, and then launch a massive pincer to challenge each of those areas all at once, before Caesar could raise enough auxillary support. If Caesar overcomes that kind of disadvantage, you were just never gonna win. But even with what happened on record, Pompey wasn't decisive in evacuating Italy, nor in pressing his numbers after victory, nor in sticking to a seige mentality when Caesar can't escapee. He allowed his enemy time and time again to seize and hold momentum and then didn't have the charisma to even maintain his own strategy when it could have won them the war.

Great segment. The point about a younger Pompey being good at war, but not up to speed on the politics of Rome, evoked Marius. Thought he had a good military run with Jugurtha and the Teuton/Cimbri wars, but then needed to adjust to the Senate settling into a post-crises mode? Otherwise, would love to hear your take on top ten Roman generals, top ten Roman politicians, top ten emperors. Bit of a parlor game, but in the age blogs, vlogs and what not, stuff that people like.

Even the Romans, who conquered everybody, called him "The Great". Caesar clearly admired him.

He was a solid general but he was outsmarted a few times by Sertorius.

Pompey was having the time of his life,carving a path through the east.

Hello. Seems Legio VII Gemina raised by Galba in AD 68 in Hispania is quite unique. In term of being creation by usurper. Is there is any other similar units raised usurpers and retained by victors of civil wars of empire? Also what province did you consider the best in terms of starting usurpation/rise of new Emperor?

Pompey was such a fascinating character. BTW I recently watched Spartacus again. Have you commented on the film? There were several points that intrigued me, such as would senators have actually applauded a speech in the Senate as they do in the film, did the senior consul have more powers than his colleague and were the battle scenes reasonably authentic. Thank you, I've learned so much and am still learning from your books and channel.

Was he striving for acceptance as an equal by the clique of "best men"? (Cato, Metellus Scipio, the Marcelli, Domitius Ahenobarbus et al) in his old age?

hey where do i put forth my own question?

By the looks of Pompey's bust, AG could be a distant descendant.

To: Pompey Magnus From: KZbin 1) Tell your father-in-law to get stuffed. 2) Tell Cato that it's all his fault, anyway.

Professor Goldsworthy, Pompey added Syria as a province. By taking out the remnants of the Seleucid empire, Pompey basically blocked Parthia from getting foothold with a Mediterranean port. The tax revenue of Pompey's Eastern conquests had to be greater than that of Gaul.

Watching this on my break at work. Thanks 🙏

What should antiques the third did when he fought Rome

The new Wolf Hall has gone Woke. It's peppered with black people and it spoils the suspension of disbelief. There's even a token one on Henry VIII's privy council. What a shame. They never falsely write Chinese people back into English history, I notice.

For those too young to know better, this is what a real historian looks like.

Dr. Goldworthy looks like Pompey!

🤣I'm so busy digging holes in the yard I never remember our hero drops

What a fantastic talk. Hands down the best breakdown of Pompey

I think Pompey was pretty good on strategy, and he clearly had a knack for speed. He had Caesar cornered at Pharsalus, and had he kept him there without a fight for a few weeks, he would have won without fighting a battle. But Pompey didn't have the will to say No to his senators allies, and his nightmare was realized that when you fight desperate men who are determined to fight or die, and if you don't have the same quality men, you're gonna lose and that's what happened. So Pompey was pretty good but not quite great as a general. At least it's my opinion.