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* Mithridates ( soldier ) ( d. 401 BC ), Persian soldier who killed Cyrus the Younger in 401 BC, according to Plutarch.
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Mithridates and soldier
According to Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes II, a young Persian soldier named Mithridates accidentally killed Cyrus the Younger during the Battle of Cunaxa ( Greek: Κούναξα ).
Mithridates and d
* Mithridates VI, King of Pontus ( d. 63 BC )
** Mithridates I ( or Mithradates ), " Great King " of Parthia from about 171 BC who will turn Parthia into a major political power and expand the empire westward into Mesopotamia ( d. 138 BC )
* Mithridates I ( or Mithradates ), " Great King " of Parthia from about 171 BC who will turn Parthia into a major political power and expand the empire westward into Mesopotamia ( d. 138 BC )
* Mithridates I of Cius ( d. 363 BC ), also known as Mithridates I of Kios
* Mithridates of Persia ( d. 334 BC ), son-in-law of Darius III
Mithridates and .
Pompey is said to have found them in the army of Mithridates.
Athenion allied with Mithridates of Pontus, and went to war with Rome ; he was killed during the war, and was replaced by Aristion.
However, according to Justinus, 38. 3. 6, more than a decade later, at some time in 90-88 BCE, Mithridates the Great sent ambassadors to the Cimbri to request military aid ; judging from the context they must have been living in North Eastern Europe at the time.
According to Strabo, a water powered mill was built in Kaberia of the kingdom of Mithridates during the 1st century BC.
Meanwhile, having brought Mithridates to terms, Sulla returned to Rome and had himself appointed to the revived office of dictator.
* 86 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
::::: i. Tiberius Julius Mithridates, King of the Bosporan Kingdom, died 68 AD, died without issue
Much of the eastern part of the empire was conquered by the Parthians under Mithridates I of Parthia in the mid-2nd century BC, yet the Seleucid kings continued to rule a rump state from Syria until the invasion by Armenian king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey.
Once-vassal dynasties in Armenia, Cappadocia, and Pontus were threatening Syria and northern Mesopotamia ; the nomadic Parthians, brilliantly led by Mithridates I of Parthia had overrun uppland Media ( home of the famed Nisean horse herd ); and Roman intervention was an ever-present threat.
In the wars in Anatolia between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Sulla of Rome, the Seleucids were largely left alone by both major combatants.
Mithridates ' ambitious son-in-law, Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia, however, saw opportunity for expansion in the constant civil strife to the south.
Following the Roman general Lucullus ' defeat of both Mithridates and Tigranes in 69 BC, a rump Seleucid kingdom was restored under Antiochus XIII.
Once Mithridates was defeated by Pompey in 63 BC, Pompey set about the task of remaking the Hellenistic East, by creating new client kingdoms and establishing provinces.
* Vespasian fortified Armazi ( Georgia ) for the Iberian king Mithridates I.
* King Mithridates IV dies, Vologases III claims the throne and extened his rule through the Parthian Empire.
* King Vologases IV, son of Mithridates IV of Parthia, unites under his rule the Parthian Empire.
* Demetrius II of Syria made prisoner of Mithridates, king of the Parthians.
These were a major luxury art form and became keenly collected, with King Mithridates VI of Pontus the first major collector according to Pliny the Elder.
The Parthian king Mithridates conquered the region into the Arascid Empire in 150 BC, and the region became something of a battleground between Greeks and Parthians.
Sulla, rather than facing the charge, escaped with his army and led them to fight the army of Mithridates VI of Pontus in Boeotia.
Flaccus soon took over the war against Mithridates, which Sulla interpreted as a threat ; Sulla then moved to intercept Flaccus.
This did not benefit Flaccus for long though, as Fimbria later had the army rebel against Flaccus and continue against Mithridates under his own leadership.
Mithridates and 401
He defended his position against his brother Cyrus the Younger, who was defeated and killed by Mithridates at the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC.
Plutarch writes in his biography of Artaxerxes II that Mithridates, sentenced to die in this manner in 401 BC for boasting about killing Cyrus the Younger, survived 17 days before dying.
Mithridates and BC
In 72 BC, his troops occupied the Greek coastal cities of Scythia Minor ( modern Dobruja region, Romania / Bulgaria ), which had sided with Rome's Hellenistic arch-enemy, king Mithridates VI of Pontus, in the Third Mithridatic War ( 73-63 BC ).
* Mithridates III, king of Parthia and Media ( reigned 57 – 54 BC )
* Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, ( lived 132 BC – 63 BC )
In response to the first threat, Rome's best general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus ( consul in 74 BC ), was sent to defeat Mithridates, followed shortly by his brother Varro Lucullus ( consul in 73 BC ).
* 133 BC – Mithridates VI, King of Pontus
The kings Skilurus and Palakus waged wars with Mithridates the Great ( reigned 120 – 63 BC ) for control of the Crimean littoral, including Chersonesos and the Cimmerian Bosporus.
* Mithridates I, King of Parthia ( b. c. 195 BC )
But the last king, Nicomedes IV, was unable to maintain himself against Mithridates VI of Pontus, and, after being restored to his throne by the Roman Senate, he bequeathed his kingdom by will to the Roman republic ( 74 BC ).
Nicomedes IV's brother, Socrates Chrestus, assisted by Mithridates VI, defeated Nicomedes IV's army in 90 BC, and Nicomedes IV was forced to flee to Italy.
However, the Roman Senate encouraged Nicomedes IV to raid Mithridates VI's territory, and Mithridates VI struck once again in 88 BC.
Mithridates and ),
The first few years of his kingship were relatively peaceful, but soon King Mithridates VI of Pontus ( the maternal grand-uncle of Nicomedes IV ), one of Rome's greatest enemies during the late Republic, began harassing Bithynia's borders.
* Mithridates I of Pontus ( r. c. 302 – 266 BC ), founder of the Kingdom of Pontus
* Mithridates VI of Pontus ( r. c. 120 – 63 BC ), also known as Mithridates the Great, after whom the Mithridatic Wars, Mithridate, and several stage works are named.
* Mithridates II of Cius ( r. 337 – 302 BC ), also known as Mithridates II of Kios
* Mithridate ( Racine ), 1673 play by Jean Racine based on Mithridates VI of Pontus
222 BC ), daughter of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice, first wife of Antiochus III the Great
3rd century BC ), daughter of Antiochus II Theos and Laodice I, wife of Mithridates II of Pontus
213 BC ), sister to Laodice III, another daughter of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice, wife of Seleucid general Achaeus
3rd century BC & flourished 2nd century BC ), wife of Mithridates III of Pontus
2nd century BC ), daughter to Mithridates III of Pontus and Laodice, sister-wife of Mithridates IV of Pontus
2nd century BC ), daughter of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV, wife of Mithridates V of Pontus
2nd century BC & 1st century BC ), daughter of Mithridates V of Pontus and Laodice VI, wife of Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia
2nd century BC & 1st century BC ), daughter of Mithridates V of Pontus and Laodice VI, sister-wife and first wife of Mithridates VI of Pontus
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