TLoPM Part III | Pompey Goes From Hero to Zero, Clodius Bullies Everyone, Cicero is Exiled

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Pompey goes through a bit of a rough patch in the year 59 B.C.

Primary Sources
Plutarch, Life of Pompey https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pompey*.html
Plutarch, Life of Crassus https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html
Plutarch, Life of Lucullus
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Appian The Civil Wars Liber II https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/appian/civil_wars/2*.html
Cassius Dio Liber XXXVI-IX
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/36*.html
Cicero, Letters to Friends Vol. I
Cicero, Letters to Atticus
Cicero, Quintus Fragments
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Asconius

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Broughton, T. Robert S. The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association, 1951.
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