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.

Pompey was assassinated on 3 September 48 BC.

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.

Nevertheless, Crassus was elected consul for 70 BC, alongside Pompey.

Caesar contrived to reconcile the two men, and then combined their clout with his own to have himself elected consul in 59 BC ; he and Crassus were already friends ( modern consensus as to the beginning of the friendship to be as early as 65 where a young Caesar supported Crassus's proposal to make Egypt tributary to Rome ), and he solidified his alliance with Pompey by giving him his own daughter, Julia, in marriage.

Wishing to have his loyal legate elected as consul, Pompey began bribing the electors lavishly.

When his five years as proconsul ended Caesar assisted his allies Crassus and Pompey in being elected consuls and his pro-consulship was extended for a further five years.

He was elected praetor in 74 BC and received an extraordinary commission, similar to that bestowed upon triumvir Pompey by the Gabinian law 5 years later in 69 BC, and that conveyed on his father three decades before in 102 BC, to clear the Mediterranean Sea of the threat of piracy, and thereby assist the operations against King Mithridates VI of Pontus.

In 55 BC another interrex was appointed to hold the comitia in which Pompey and Crassus were elected consuls.

He was elected consul for the year 78 BC with the support of Pompey, Forced into exile in Sardinia, he died soon afterwards.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 54 BC ), son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 96 BC ), supporter of Pompey and character in Lucan's Pharsalia

* Pompey Magnus, Roman consul and general who was given the honorific " Magnus "

Second, Pompey had defeated fellow Romans ; however, a precedent had been set when the consul Lucius Julius Caesar ( a relative of Gaius Julius Caesar ) had been granted a triumph for a small victory over Italian peoples in the Social War.

Caesar's mediation between Crassus and Pompey led to the creation of the coalition between Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar ( by now consul ), known as the First Triumvirate in 60 BC.

In 55 BC, after the Triumvirate met at the Lucca Conference, he was again consul with Pompey, and a law was passed assigning the provinces of the two Hispanias and Syria to Pompey and Crassus respectively for five years.

* Pompey demands that Julius Caesar lay down his command before he can stand for consul.

Although he was Caesar's political enemy, Pompey was a Roman consul and the widower of Caesar's only legitimate daughter, Julia ( who died in childbirth with Pompey's son ).

The consul Servilius Vatia defeated these brigands in 78 BC and later the Roman general Pompey in 67 BC, bringing Side under the control of Rome and beginning its second period of ascendancy, when it established and maintained a good working relationship with the Roman Empire.

The Senate called on Pompey to become ' sole consul '.

The trial's jury was vetted by Pompey and the presiding magistrate, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 54 BC ) was a loyal adherent.

He outshone both Marius and the consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo ( the father of Pompey ).

First, in 61 BC, Pompey returned from his Asian campaign with two ambitions: to celebrate a Triumph, and to become consul for the second time.

This concession satisfied Pompey, but Cato, along with the consul Lentulus, refused to back down.

An opponent of Julius Caesar, he was consul alongside Caesar in 59 BC, and fought against him in the civil war that broke out between Caesar and Pompey in 49 BC.

As a consular senator, in 52 BC, he proposed an unconstitutional and illegal resolution, which the Senate accepted, allowing Pompey to serve as sole consul in 52 BC to deal with the breakdown of order in Rome after the murder of Publius Clodius.

As a result of a law passed by Pompey during his sole consulship, proscribing that governorships could not be held by persons who had served as praetor or consul within five years of leaving office, Bibulus was appointed governor of Syria in 51 BC.

There were interreges in 53 and 52 BC, in the latter of which an interrex held the comitia in which Pompey was appointed sole consul.