{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cost of Glory","title":"85 - Pompey III: Fields of Pharsalus","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c681d98f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":7074,"description":"Life of Pompey Part 3 of 3: Pompey's final rise to the heights of Roman power, his war with his friend Julius Caesar, and his final downfall.  \nPeople:\n(M. Tullius) Cicero \n(Titus Pomponius) Atticus \nC. Julius Caesar \nCn. Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) \nJulia, Caesar's Daughter \n(M. Licinius) Crassus \n(L. Domitius) Ahenobarbus - Optimate Stalwart (Cos. 54) \n(M. Porcius) Cato \"The Younger\" - the Stoic \n(M. Calpurnius) Bibulus - Cos. 59 \nP. Clodius Pulcher - Populist Thug lord \n(T. Annius) Milo - Pompey's Thug lord \nM. Caelius (Rufus) - Cicero's young political analyst friend \nPublius Licinius Crassus - The Richest Man's Son \nCornelia - Pompey's final wife \n(Q. Caecilius) Metellus (Pius) Scipio - Pompey's new Father in Law \nAulus Gabinius - Pompey's friend, exiled after Egyptian expedition \nPtolemy XII Auletes (\"The Piper\") - exiled king of Egypt \n(C. Scribonius) Curio - Optimate turncoat, Caesar's tribune \nM. Antonius (Mark Antony) \nM. Claudius Marcellus - Optimate stalwart (Cos 51) \nC. Claudius Marcellus - Optimate stalwart (Cos. 50, cousin of Cos. 51) \nM. Favonius - \"Stamp, Pompey!\" Senator \nThemistocles - Athenian statesman \nCamillus - 4th c. BC Roman statesman \nT. Labienus - Caesar's general, deserted to Pompey \n(M. Junius) Brutus - Future Conspirator \nTheophanes of Mytilene - the Historian \nCrassianus - Caesar's centurion at Pharsalus \nCratippus of Pergamon - Philosopher at Mytilene \nPtolemy XIII - Boy king of Egypt \nPotheinus - Ptolemy XIII's Eunuch \nAchillas - Ptolemy XIII's General \nTheodotus - Ptolemy XIII's Rhetoric Teacher \nPhilippus - Pompey's freedman   \n\nPlaces: \nThe Roman Forum \nThe Tiber River \nParthia \nCarrhae (Battle of) - in Mesopotamia (Parthian Empire) \nGaul (Mod. France) \nPompey's Theater (\"Temple of Venus\") \nAlesia (Battle of) - in Gaul \nNaples (Neapolis) \nRavenna (N. Italy, \"Cisalpine Gaul\" then) \nRubicon River \nAriminum (Rimini) \nCorfinium - Italian town in the Apennines \nBrundisium - Eastern Port in Italy \nDyrrhachium (Mod. Durrës) - in Epirus...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/e9Sa4TjcD2AANYwBKeHjinbdJ-h9gAVExpbmhJYgOAg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OWZm/NGFjZDE3Yzk3MTdm/N2ExOTNlY2U4NTZh/OTgwMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}