How Caesar avenged the pirates who kidnapped him

In the 1st century BCE, Cilician pirates ran rampant in the Mediterranean Sea. Plutarch wrote that they had up to a thousand ships and around 30,000 sailors aboard them. Rome struggled to combat pirate lawlessness with varying degrees of success. For instance, Marcus Antonius Orator was appointed praetor of Cilicia in 102 BCE and successfully defeated the pirates, earning a triumph in Rome. Later, his son Marcus Antonius Creticus took up the fight against the same pirates in the same region. This struggle continued until Publius Servilius Vatia was appointed the proconsul of Cilicia in 78 BCE. He eventually managed to destroy the pirate bases along the coast. However, the Cilician pirates did not lose heart and relocated to the nearby island of Crete, displacing the local pirate gangs from there. <a href="https://medium.com/@ancient.rome/how-caesar-avenged-the-pirates-who-kidnapped-him-794a10236ef4">Read More</a>