The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

In 46 BC, she consented for him to join Caesar in Hispania, where he planned to fight the forces of Pompey, Caesar's late enemy, but Octavius fell ill and was unable to travel.

The father of Julia the Elder was the Emperor Augustus, and Julia was his only natural child from his second marriage to Scribonia, who had close blood relations with Pompey the Great and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

river he was faced by Pompey with an army at least three times as great.

Caesar was now in a dire position, holding a beachhead at Epirus with only half his army, no ability to supply his troops by sea, and limited local support, as the Greek cities were mostly loyal to Pompey.

Pompey was camped in a strong position just south of Dyrrhachium with the sea to his back and surrounded by hills, making a direct assault impossible.

Pompey built a parallel wall and in between a kind of no man's land was created, with fighting comparable to the trench warfare of World War I.

Finally the standoff was broken by a traitor in Caesar's army, who informed Pompey of a weakness in Caesar's wall.

Although Pompey was strongly against it-he wanted to surround and starve Caesar's army instead-he eventually gave in and accepted battle from Caesar on a field near Pharsalus.

Pompey had every tactical advantage an army could hope for ; he held the higher ground, had superiority of numbers, and was better supplied from his many allies in Greece.

Like Pompey he was protected by the river on his left allowing him to position all his cavalry to the right as a counter.

Pompey fled from Pharsalus to Egypt, where he was assassinated on the order of Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII.

Originally the Babylonian calendar was used by Jews for all daily purposes, but following the conquest of Jerusalem by Pompey in 63 BCE ( see also Iudaea province ), Jews began additionally following the imperial civil calendar, which was decreed in 45 BCE, for civic matters such as the payment of taxes and dealings with government officials.

In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed a political alliance that was to dominate Roman politics for several years.

Caesar was already in Crassus ' political debt, but he also made overtures to Pompey.

This informal alliance, known as the First Triumvirate (" rule of three men "), was cemented by the marriage of Pompey to Caesar's daughter Julia.

Pompey was appointed sole consul as an emergency measure, and married the daughter of a political opponent of Caesar.

Caesar then pursued Pompey to Egypt, where Pompey was soon murdered.

The first goal was accomplished when Caesar defeated Pompey and his supporters.

The plotters, however, had anticipated this and, fearing that Antony would come to Caesar's aid, had arranged for Trebonius to intercept him just as he approached the portico of Theatre of Pompey, where the session was to be held, and detain him outside.

Julius Caesar intended to start a campaign against the Dacians, due to the support that Burebista gave to Pompey, but was assassinated in 44 BC.

* 48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.

** September 28 – Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt ( may have occurred September 29, records unclear ).

* September 29 – Pompey, Roman politician ( assassinated ) ( b. 106 BC )

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.

Pompey succeeded only when Sertorius was assassinated by one of his own commanders.

Pompey then fled to Egypt, where to Caesar's consternation, Pompey was assassinated.

After him came Julius Caesar, who after conquering the Gaul ( present day France ) won a civil war against Pompey but was assassinated by senators fearing he would start a monarchy, in 44 BC.

Julius Caesar was killed in the Curia of the Theatre of Pompey, and the spot he was believed to be assassinated is in the square.

A dispute between Caesar and the Senate of Rome culminated in Caesar marching his army on Rome and forcing Pompey, accompanied by much of the Roman Senate, to flee from Italy to Greece in 49 BC where he could better conscript an army to face his former ally.

Again according to convention he posted his most experienced legions on the flanks ( the first and the third legion on his left with Pompey himself commanding, the Syrian legions in the center with Scipio, the Cilician legion and the Spanish cohorts on the right with Afranius ), dispersing his new recruits along the center.

Minerva was worshipped on the Capitoline Hill as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno, at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the " Delubrum Minervae " a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva facing the present-day Piazza della Minerva.

In 46 BC he seems to have taken offense because Caesar insisted on payment for the property of Pompey which Antony professedly had purchased, but had in fact simply appropriated.

* 61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

Even so, his firm stand on the matter of cash raised his standing among the conservatives, and Pompey seems to have learned a lesson in populist politics.

Pompey ’ s went on for two days of unprecedented novelty, wealth and luxury.

In the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey, the citizens of Caralis were the first to declare in favor of the former, an example soon followed by the other cities of Sardinia ; and Caesar himself touched there with his fleet on his return from Africa.

His problem was that despite his military successes, he was eclipsed by his contemporary Pompey the Great who blackmailed the dictator Sulla into granting him a triumph for victory in Africa over a rag-tag group of dissident Romans ; a first in Roman history on a couple of counts.

First, Pompey was not even a praetor, on which grounds a triumph had been denied in 206 BC to the great Scipio Africanus, who had defeated Rome ´ s outstanding enemy, Hannibal, and brought Rome an entire province in Hispania.

It was one of the points occupied and fortified by the former, when preparing for the defence of the Sicilian straits, but was taken by Agrippa after his naval victory at Mylae, and became one of his chief posts, from which he carried on offensive warfare against Pompey.

At 3 pm on March 22, 1740, an English fleet composed of ships Strafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the Diamond frigate, the bombards Alderney, Terrible and Cumberland, the fireships Success and Eleanor, and transport Goodly and Pompey, under command of Vernon himself, began to bombard the Spanish fortress.

* Tigranes of Armenia was defeated and captured by Pompey, thus ending all hostilities on the northeastern frontier of Rome.