Pompey the Great: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Roman General Who Lost the Civil War to Julius Caesar Audiobook

Thanks to Caesars victory in the civil war Pompey is mostly remembered not for being one of Romes greatest generals but for being defeated by Caesar and then ignominiously murdered after he fled to Egypt where the boy pharaoh Ptolemy XIII decapitated Pompey and offered his head to Caesar as a gift Although Caesar was there chasing Pompeys men he quickly became involved in Egypts own civil war As a consequence of Ptolemys barbarity Caesar impulsively decided to side with his sister Cleopatra in her bid for the throne of Egypt escalating what was rapidly becoming an allout civil war