Episode III.28 - Pompey

In the early first century BC, after the death of Sulla, the Roman Republic's moved and shaken by the work and charisma of several powerful men: Pompey, Crassus, Sertorius, Metellus, Lucullus and others. These men shepherd the Roman state into and out of one conflict after the other: The Sertorian War, the Third Servile War, the Third Mithridatic War and others. By 63 BC, Pompey has conquered the Seleucid Empire and seized the city of Jerusalem, and now Roman power extends from Spain in the West to the Euphrates River in the East.