Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo
Bornc. 135 BC
Died87 BC
Outside Rome, Italy
NationalityRoman
Office
ChildrenPompey and Pompeia
Parents
  • Sextus Pompeius (father)
  • Lucilia (mother)
Military service
Battles/warsSocial War
Bellum Octavianum
AwardsTriumph

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (c. 135 – 87 BC) was a Roman general and politician, who served as consul in 89 BC. He is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo, to distinguish him from his son, the famous Pompey the Great, or from Strabo the geographer.

Strabo, the cognomen, means "cross eyed". He lived in the Roman Republic and was born and raised into a noble family in Picenum (in the south and the north of the modern regions of Marche and Abruzzo respectively) in central Italy, on the Adriatic Coast. Strabo's mother was called Lucilia. Lucilia's family originated from Suessa Aurunca (modern Sessa Aurunca) and she was a sister of satiric poet Gaius Lucilius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus. Strabo's paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while his father was Sextus Pompeius. His elder brother was Sextus Pompeius and his sister was Pompeia.

  1. ^ Broughton 1952, pp. 29, 32, 42, 48–49.