Are they, and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Dr. Catherine Welch.

Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University

of Sydney.

This is episode CXCIX, Sextus Pompayers.

Sextus Pompayers was the youngest son of Pompey, the great, and was responsible for leading

the last great resistance of the Roman Republic against Octavian and Mark Antony.

While he made the most of his late father's reputation, Sextus was a leader in his own

right, and to many a forgotten aspect of this period of Roman history.

Here's Catherine Welch.

Sextus Pompayers, he's the youngest son of Rome's most profoundly important citizen,

the nice Pompayers Magnus, Pompey the Great, the great figure of the 70s, 60s, and 50s

in Rome, who, if we can really start the story, is the most profoundly important person

in Roman history until he's not.

And the memory, unlike us, the memory of Pompey does not go away.

It's there in the landscape, it's there in the literature, it's there in the stories,

it's in the poetry, it's in the mythology.

Pompey the Great's memory is a living thing through the entire principle.

And so, in fact, to an extent, to a lesser extent, is his younger son.

So what was it like then growing up in Rome for Sextus Pompayers when you're the youngest

son of one of the most important Roman figures, and Rome is going through such a tumultuous

stage of history at that point, what does that mean to grow up as that?

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