Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Anton Powell
  • Both sides of the coin: Sextus Pompeius and the so-called Pompeiani / Kathryn Welch
  • Sextus Pompeius and the Res Publica in 42-39 BC / Kathryn Welch
  • Sextus Pompeius and Spain: 46-44 BC / Benedict J. Lowe
  • "An island amid the flame": the strategy and imagery of Sextus Pompeius, 43-36 BC / Anton Powell
  • Sextus Pompeius, Octavianus and Sicily / Shelley C. Stone III
  • Pompeian and Scribonian descendents in the Early Empire / Hugh Lindsay
  • Pirates, witches and slaves: the imperial afterlife of Sextus Pompeius / Alain M. Gowing
  • Horace and the pirates / Lindsay Watson
  • Magno proles indigna parente: the role of Sextus Pompeius in Lucan's Bellum civile / Charles Tesoriero
  • Lucan's Sextus Pompeius episode: its necromantic, political and literary background / Daniel Ogden.