Quintus Valerius Pompey

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Quintus Valerius Pompey

Quintus Valerius Pompey is a fictional character in the HBO

Home Box Office

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/BBC2 original television series, Rome
Rome (TV series)

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, played by Rick Warden

Rick Warden

Richard George Warden is a British television and Film actor.Warden studied at Dr Challoner's Grammar School and received a B.A. Honours in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, 1994....
. He is described as the "natural son" of Pompey. The basis for this character is unclear. There is no historical mention of a Quintus Valerius Pompey, but the character may be meant to represent both Sextus Pompeius

Sextus Pompeius

Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, in English Sextus Pompey , was a Ancient Rome general from the late Roman Republic . He was the last focus of opposition to the Second Triumvirate....
and Gnaeus Pompeius

Gnaeus Pompeius

Gnaeus Popmeius should not be confused with his father, Pompey, known as "Pompey the Great."Gnaeus Pompeius , also known as Pompey the Younger , was a Ancient Rome politician and general from the late Roman Republic ....
. He also exhibits some of traits reportedly held by the Optimate general Titus Labienus

Titus Labienus

Titus Labienus was a professional Ancient Rome soldier in the late Roman Republic. He served as Tribune of the Plebs in 63 BC, and is remembered as one of Julius Caesar's lieutenants, mentioned frequently in the accounts of his military campaigns....
.

rose and violent man, Quintus is somewhat unpleasant to be around.

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Quintus Valerius Pompey is a fictional character in the HBO

Home Box Office

Rick Warden

Sextus Pompeius

Gnaeus Pompeius

Titus Labienus

Personality

A morose and violent man, Quintus is somewhat unpleasant to be around. He pours a constant stream of threats and insults towards enemies, friends and allies. He is however fiercely loyal to his father and the republic. He also possesses a considerable talent at political skulduggery, interrogation and subterfuge in general.

Character history

Resentful and pragmatic, Quintus is initially an effective tool of his father Pompey Magnus

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
. He was commander of the Tyrrhenian

Tyrrhenian Sea

The Tyrrhenian Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy.It is bounded by Corsica and Sardinia , Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, and Calabria , and Sicily ....
fleet, "Neptune

Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
's Scourge," probably a reference to the historical Sextus Pompeius.

He crossed paths with Titus Pullo

Titus Pullo (character of Rome)

Titus Pullo is a fictional character from the HBO/BBC original television series Rome , played by Ray Stevenson . He is depicted as a friendly, upbeat, devil-may-care soldier with the morals of a pirate, the appetites of a hedonist, and a total lack of personal responsibility, who discovers hidden ideals and integrity within himself....
and Lucius Vorenus

Lucius Vorenus (character of Rome)

Lucius Vorenus is a semi-fictional character from the HBO/BBC original television series Rome , played by Kevin McKidd. He is depicted as a staunch, traditional, Roman soldier, who struggles to balance his personal beliefs, his duty to his superiors, and the needs of his family and friends....
while attempting to recapture the stolen treasury gold of Rome - which resulted in his capture and deliverance to Caesar.

After the defeat and destruction of the Optimates

Optimates

Optimates were the pro-aristocratic faction of the later Roman Republic. They wished to limit the power of the Roman assemblies and the Tribunes, and to extend the power of the Roman Senate, which was viewed as more dedicated to the interests of the aristocrats....
' forces, and the death of his father, he lacks the structure and control that his father had provided all his life, and is lost, slipping into drunken decay, living only for revenge.

He is taken in by Servilia

Servilia of the Junii

Servilia of the Junii is a character from the Home Box Office/BBC/RAI original television series, Rome , played by Lindsay Duncan. The mother of Marcus Junius Brutus , lover of the married Gaius Julius Caesar and enemy of Atia of the Julii, Servilia is depicted as a sophisticated and regal Roman matron who follows her heart to her detriment....
, who provides him with a "purpose and structure" again as he aids her with the anti-Caesar propaganda campaign.

After Caesar is assassinated, he is killed by Mark Antony, whom he had earlier tried to kill.