Steven Saylor, portraying his role in the civil war with Caesar. His final appearance is in Saylor's novel The Judgment of Caesar, which depicts his murder by Ptolemy in Egypt. Pompey is a major recurring character in Robert Harris' trilogy of the life of Cicero (Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator), in which Pompey is portrayed as bombastic and dim-witted, though fearsome. Television In the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, he is portrayed by actor Jeremy Callaghan. Chris Noth portrays Pompey in the miniseries Julius Caesar (2002). He appears as a major character in the season 1 of the HBO series Rome, portrayed by Kenneth Cranham. He was played by John Shrapnel in the BBC One docudrama series, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006). In the television series Spartacus: War of the Damned, he is portrayed by actor Joel Tobeck. He appears in the Netflix series Roman Empire, played by Stephen Lovatt. Marriages and offspring Pompey was married five times. These marriages were not only romantic matches, but political arrangements, often dictated by Pompey's political career and need to form alliances with other powerful Roman men. Pompey's first marriage, in 86 BC, was to Antistia, the daughter of a judge who was overseeing Pompey's trial for financial misconduct. In 82 or 81 BC, he was influenced to divorce Antistia in favour of Sulla's stepdaughter, Aemilia, who died in childbirth shortly afterwards. He married Mucia Tertia in 79 BC, this time gaining an alliance with the powerful gens Caecilia. He divorced Mucia in 61 BC, possibly for political reasons, and married Julia, the daughter of his political rival Julius Caesar, in 59 BC. Finally, after Julia's death in 54 BC, he married Cornelia Metella, who survived him after his own assassination in 48 BC. According to the classicist Shelley Haley, Pompey "made use of marriage in a traditional fashion to further his political career", but emphasis on Pompey's ambition has often "caused the modern scholar to lose sight of the woman in such an alliance and to ignore the intimate relationships possible at the heart of such a marriage." For most of these marriages, few or no primary sources exist, and it is often difficult to establish matters of fact amidst the political biases and agendas of later historians. Pompey had three children who survived to adulthood, all with Mucia Tertia: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, executed in 45 BC, after