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class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> 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Pontský – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mithridatés VI. Pontský" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI,_brenin_Pontus" title="Mithridates VI, brenin Pontus – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Mithridates VI, brenin Pontus" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_6._af_Pontos" title="Mithridates 6. af Pontos – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Mithridates 6. af Pontos" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI._(Pontos)" title="Mithridates VI. (Pontos) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Mithridates VI. (Pontos)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B9%CE%B8%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%A3%CE%A4%CE%84_%CE%95%CF%85%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%89%CF%81" title="Μιθριδάτης ΣΤ΄ Ευπάτωρ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μιθριδάτης ΣΤ΄ Ευπάτωρ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitr%C3%ADdates_VI" title="Mitrídates VI – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mitrídates VI" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitridato_la_6-a_de_Ponto" title="Mitridato la 6-a de Ponto – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Mitridato la 6-a de Ponto" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitridates_VI.a" title="Mitridates VI.a – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mitridates VI.a" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%8C_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3" title="مهرداد ششم، پادشاه پنتوس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مهرداد ششم، پادشاه پنتوس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridate_VI" title="Mithridate VI – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mithridate VI" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitridates_VI" title="Mitridates VI – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Mitridates VI" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitr%C3%ADdates_VI_do_Ponto" title="Mitrídates VI do Ponto – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mitrídates VI do Ponto" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%ED%8A%B8%EB%A6%AC%EB%8B%A4%ED%85%8C%EC%8A%A4_6%EC%84%B8_%EB%A9%94%EA%B0%80%EC%8A%A4" title="미트리다테스 6세 메가스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="미트리다테스 6세 메가스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%B0%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%BF_%D4%B6_%D4%B5%D5%BE%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%80" title="Միհրդատ Զ Եվպատոր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Միհրդատ Զ Եվպատոր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitridat_VI._Eupator" title="Mitridat VI. Eupator – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Mitridat VI. Eupator" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_dari_Pontos" title="Mithridates VI dari Pontos – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mithridates VI dari Pontos" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C3%BEridates_VI_Pontuskonungur" title="Miþridates VI Pontuskonungur – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Miþridates VI Pontuskonungur" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitridate_VI_del_Ponto" title="Mitridate VI del Ponto – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mitridate VI del Ponto" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%93%D7%98%D7%A1_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99,_%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9A_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A1" title="מיתרידטס השישי, מלך פונטוס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מיתרידטס השישי, מלך פונטוס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%97%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94_VI_%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="მითრიდატე VI ევპატორი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მითრიდატე VI ევპატორი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/VI_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82" title="VI Митридат – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="VI Митридат" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82_VI" title="Митридат VI – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Митридат VI" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_(rex_Ponti)" title="Mithridates VI (rex Ponti) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Mithridates VI (rex Ponti)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/VI._Mithridat%C3%A9sz_pontoszi_kir%C3%A1ly" title="VI. Mithridatész pontoszi király – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="VI. Mithridatész pontoszi király" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitridatesy_VI_any_Pontosy" title="Mitridatesy VI any Pontosy – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Mitridatesy VI any Pontosy" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%97%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94_VI_%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="მითრიდატე VI ევპატორი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="მითრიდატე VI ევპატორი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" 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VI van Pontus – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Mithridates VI van Pontus" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%80%E3%83%86%E3%82%B96%E4%B8%96" title="ミトリダテス6世 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ミトリダテス6世" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitridates_VI_av_Pontos" title="Mitridates VI av Pontos – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Mitridates VI av Pontos" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitridat_VI" title="Mitridat VI – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Mitridat VI" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrydates_VI_Eupator" title="Mitrydates VI Eupator – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Mitrydates VI Eupator" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitr%C3%ADdates_VI_do_Ponto" title="Mitrídates VI do Ponto – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mitrídates VI do Ponto" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" 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color:inherit; font-size: 125%">Mithridates VI</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><i><a href="/wiki/King_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Pontus">King of Pontus</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image photo"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Obverse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Stater of Mithridates c. 89 BCE" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Obverse.jpg/240px-Obverse.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Obverse.jpg/360px-Obverse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Obverse.jpg/480px-Obverse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;padding-top:0.2em;">Gold stater of Mithridates <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 89 BCE</span></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_kings_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="List of kings of Pontus">King of Pontus</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">120–63 BC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_V_Euergetes" title="Mithridates V Euergetes">Mithridates V Euergetes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_II_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces II of Pontus">Pharnaces II of Pontus</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">135 BC<br /><a href="/wiki/Sinop,_Turkey" title="Sinop, Turkey">Sinope</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus" title="Kingdom of Pontus">Kingdom of Pontus</a><br />(modern-day <a href="/wiki/Sinop,_Turkey" title="Sinop, Turkey">Sinop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">63 BC (aged 71–72)<br /><a href="/wiki/Panticapaeum" class="mw-redirect" title="Panticapaeum">Panticapaeum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus" title="Kingdom of Pontus">Kingdom of Pontus</a><br />(modern-day <a href="/wiki/Kerch" title="Kerch">Kerch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Burial</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="label">either Sinope or <a href="/wiki/Amasya" title="Amasya">Amaseia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus" title="Kingdom of Pontus">Kingdom of Pontus</a><br />(modern-day Sinop or <a href="/wiki/Amasya" title="Amasya">Amasya</a>, Turkey)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Laodice_(sister-wife_of_Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus)" title="Laodice (sister-wife of Mithridates VI of Pontus)">Laodice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Monime" title="Monime">Monime</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Berenice_of_Chios" title="Berenice of Chios">Berenice of Chios</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stratonice_of_Pontus" title="Stratonice of Pontus">Stratonice of Pontus</a></li><li>Unnamed fifth wife</li><li><a href="/wiki/Hypsicratea" title="Hypsicratea">Hypsicratea</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a><br /><span style="font-weight:normal"><i><a href="#Wives,_mistresses_and_children">Detail</a></i></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_of_Colchis" title="Mithridates of Colchis">Mithridates of Colchis</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Arcathius" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcathius">Arcathius</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Machares" title="Machares">Machares</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_II_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces II of Pontus">Pharnaces II of Pontus</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_of_Pontus" title="Cleopatra of Pontus">Cleopatra of Pontus</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Drypetina" title="Drypetina">Drypetina</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Athenais_Philostorgos_II" title="Athenais Philostorgos II">Athenais</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Xiphares" title="Xiphares">Xiphares</a></li><li>(illeg.) <a href="/wiki/Mithridates_I_of_the_Bosporus" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithridates I of the Bosporus">Mithridates I of the Bosporus</a></li><li>(illeg.) <a href="/wiki/Adobogiona_the_Younger" title="Adobogiona the Younger">Adobogiona the Younger</a></li><li>(illeg.) <a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_IX_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia">Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia</a></li><li>(illeg.) <a href="/wiki/Orsabaris" title="Orsabaris">Orsabaris</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:left">Names</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data nickname" style="text-align:left; padding-left:0.7em;">Mithradates Eupator Dionysus</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">Dynasty</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mithridatic_dynasty" title="Mithridatic dynasty">Mithridatic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_V_Euergetes" title="Mithridates V Euergetes">Mithridates V Euergetes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Laodice_VI" title="Laodice VI">Laodice VI</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion</th><td class="infobox-data">Hellenistic Paganism</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mithridates</b> or <b>Mithradates VI Eupator</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B9%CE%B8%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:Μιθριδάτης">Μιθριδάτης</a></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 135–63 BC) was the ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus" title="Kingdom of Pontus">Kingdom of Pontus</a> in northern <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a>'s most formidable and determined opponents. He was an effective, ambitious, and ruthless ruler who sought to dominate <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a> region, waging several hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful wars (the <a href="/wiki/Mithridatic_Wars" title="Mithridatic Wars">Mithridatic Wars</a>) to break Roman dominion over <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenic world">Hellenic world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has been called the greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He <a href="/wiki/History_of_poison" title="History of poison">cultivated an immunity to poisons</a> by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses; this practice, now called <a href="/wiki/Mithridatism" title="Mithridatism">mithridatism</a>, is named after him. After his death, he became known as <b>Mithridates the Great</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Name_and_ancestry">Name and ancestry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name and ancestry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PonticKingdom.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/PonticKingdom.png/220px-PonticKingdom.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/PonticKingdom.png/330px-PonticKingdom.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/PonticKingdom.png/440px-PonticKingdom.png 2x" data-file-width="1551" data-file-height="1296" /></a><figcaption>Map of the Kingdom of Pontus <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#b92fab; color:white;"> </span> Before the reign of Mithridates VI</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#cf6bc4; color:black;"> </span> After his early conquests</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#fd68fe; color:black;"> </span> After his conquests in the First Mithridatic War</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#7ae175; color:black;"> </span> Including Pontus' ally the Kingdom of Armenia</div></figcaption></figure> <p><i>Mithridates</i> is the <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> attestation of the <a href="/wiki/Iranic" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranic">Iranic</a> name <i>Mihrdāt</i>, meaning "given by <a href="/wiki/Mithra" title="Mithra">Mithra</a>", the name of the ancient Iranian sun god.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor20091_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor20091-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name itself is derived from <a href="/wiki/Old_Iranian" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Iranian">Old Iranian</a> <i>Miθra-dāta-</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchmitt2005_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmitt2005-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Epithet" title="Epithet">epithet</a> "<a href="/wiki/Eupator_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Eupator (disambiguation)">eupator</a>" means "of a well (noble) father", and was adopted by a number of other <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic</a> rulers as well.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mithridates Eupator Dionysus (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mithridates" class="extiw" title="wikt:Mithridates">Μιθριδάτης</a> Εὐπάτωρ <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B9%CF%8C%CE%BD%CF%85%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:Διόνυσος">Διόνυσος</a></span>) was a prince of mixed <a href="/wiki/Iranic" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranic">Iranic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greek</a> ancestry. He claimed descent from <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a>, the family of <a href="/wiki/Darius_the_Great" title="Darius the Great">Darius the Great</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">Regent</a> <a href="/wiki/Antipater" title="Antipater">Antipater</a>, the generals of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a>, as well as the later kings <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus I Monophthalmus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus I Nicator</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-iranicaonline.org_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iranicaonline.org-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mithridates was born in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus" title="Kingdom of Pontus">Pontic</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Sinop,_Turkey" title="Sinop, Turkey">Sinope</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia, and was raised in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus" title="Kingdom of Pontus">Kingdom of Pontus</a>. He was the first son among the children born to <a href="/wiki/Laodice_VI" title="Laodice VI">Laodice VI</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mithridates_V_Euergetes" title="Mithridates V Euergetes">Mithridates V Euergetes</a> (reigned 150–120 BC). His father, Mithridates V, was a prince and the son of the former Pontic monarchs <a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_I_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces I of Pontus">Pharnaces I of Pontus</a> and his cousin-wife <a href="/wiki/Nysa_(wife_of_Pharnaces_I_of_Pontus)" title="Nysa (wife of Pharnaces I of Pontus)">Nysa</a>. His mother, Laodice VI, was a Seleucid princess and the daughter of the Seleucid monarchs <a href="/wiki/Antiochus_IV_Epiphanes" title="Antiochus IV Epiphanes">Antiochus IV Epiphanes</a> and his sister-wife <a href="/wiki/Laodice_IV" title="Laodice IV">Laodice IV</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Mithridates V was assassinated in about 120 BC in Sinope, poisoned by unknown persons at a lavish <a href="/wiki/Banquet" title="Banquet">banquet</a> which he held.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left the kingdom to the joint rule of his widow Laodice VI, and their elder son Mithridates VI, and younger son <a href="/wiki/Mithridates_Chrestus" title="Mithridates Chrestus">Mithridates Chrestus</a>. Neither Mithridates VI nor his younger brother were of age, and their mother retained all power as <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> for the time being.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Laodice VI's regency over Pontus was from 120 BC to 116 BC (even perhaps up to 113 BC) and favored Mithridates Chrestus over Mithridates. During his mother's regency, Mithridates escaped from his mother's plots against him and went into hiding.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Mithridates emerged from hiding and returned to Pontus between 116 and 113 BC. There, he was hailed as king. By this time he had grown to become a man of considerable stature and physical strength.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He could combine extraordinary energy and determination with a considerable talent for politics, organization and strategy.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mithridates removed his mother and brother from the throne, imprisoning them both. In this way, he became the sole ruler of Pontus.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayor,_p.394_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayor,_p.394-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Laodice VI died in prison, ostensibly of natural causes. Mithridates Chrestus may have died in prison also, or may have been tried for treason and executed.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayor,_p.394_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayor,_p.394-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mithridates gave both of them royal funerals.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mithridates took his younger sister <a href="/wiki/Laodice_(sister-wife_of_Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus)" title="Laodice (sister-wife of Mithridates VI of Pontus)">Laodice</a>, aged 16, as his first wife.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His goals in doing so were to preserve the purity of their bloodline, to solidify his claim to the throne, to co-rule over Pontus, and to ensure the succession to his legitimate children.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_reign">Early reign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early reign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mithridates entertained ambitions of making his state the dominant power on the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>. He first subjugated <a href="/wiki/Colchis" title="Colchis">Colchis</a>, a region east of the Black Sea occupied by present-day <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>, and prior to 164 BC, an independent kingdom. He then clashed for supremacy on the <a href="/wiki/Pontic_steppe" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontic steppe">Pontic steppe</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Scythian" class="mw-redirect" title="Scythian">Scythian</a> king <a href="/wiki/Palacus" title="Palacus">Palacus</a>. The most important centres of <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tauric_Chersonesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Tauric Chersonesus">Tauric Chersonesus</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bosporan_Kingdom" title="Bosporan Kingdom">Bosporan Kingdom</a> readily surrendered their independence in return for Mithridates' promises to protect them against the Scythians, their ancient enemies.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After several abortive attempts to invade the Crimea, the Scythians and the allied <a href="/wiki/Rhoxolanoi" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhoxolanoi">Rhoxolanoi</a> suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Pontic general <a href="/wiki/Diophantus_(general)" title="Diophantus (general)">Diophantus</a> and accepted Mithridates as their overlord.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The young king then turned his attention to Anatolia, where <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> power was on the rise. He contrived to partition <a href="/wiki/Paphlagonia" title="Paphlagonia">Paphlagonia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Galatia" title="Galatia">Galatia</a> with King <a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_III_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes III of Bithynia">Nicomedes III of Bithynia</a>. It was probably on the occasion of the Paphlagonian invasion of 108 BC that Mithridates adopted the <a href="/wiki/Bithynian_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Bithynian era">Bithynian era</a> for use on his coins in honour of the alliance. This calendar era began with the first Bithynian king <a href="/wiki/Zipoites_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Zipoites I">Zipoites I</a> in 297 BC. It was certainly in use in Pontus by 96 BC at the latest.<sup id="cite_ref-Højte_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Højte-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Yet it soon became clear to Mithridates that Nicomedes was steering his country into an anti-Pontic alliance with the expanding Roman Republic. When Mithridates fell out with Nicomedes over control of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Cappadocia" title="Kingdom of Cappadocia">Cappadocia</a>, and defeated him in a series of battles, the latter was constrained to openly enlist the assistance of Rome. The Romans twice interfered in the conflict on behalf of Nicomedes (95–92 BC), leaving Mithridates, should he wish to continue the expansion of his kingdom, with little choice other than to engage in a future Roman-Pontic war. 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hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Mithridatic_War" title="First Mithridatic War">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Mithridatic_War" title="Second Mithridatic War">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Mithridatic_War" title="Third Mithridatic War">Third</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bellum_mithridaticum_87-86aC.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Bellum_mithridaticum_87-86aC.png/220px-Bellum_mithridaticum_87-86aC.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Bellum_mithridaticum_87-86aC.png/330px-Bellum_mithridaticum_87-86aC.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Bellum_mithridaticum_87-86aC.png/440px-Bellum_mithridaticum_87-86aC.png 2x" data-file-width="1901" data-file-height="1697" /></a><figcaption>First Mithridatic War, 87–86 BC</figcaption></figure> <p>The next ruler of <a href="/wiki/Bithynia" title="Bithynia">Bithynia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_IV_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes IV of Bithynia">Nicomedes IV of Bithynia</a>, was a <a href="/wiki/Puppet_ruler" title="Puppet ruler">figurehead</a> manipulated by the Romans. Mithridates plotted to overthrow him, but his attempts failed and Nicomedes IV, instigated by his Roman advisors, declared war on Pontus. Rome itself was at the time involved in the <a href="/wiki/Social_War_(91%E2%80%9388_BC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Social War (91–88 BC)">Social War</a>, a civil war with its Italian allies; as a result, there were only two <a href="/wiki/Roman_legion" title="Roman legion">legions</a> present in all of Roman Asia, both in Macedonia. These legions combined with Nicomedes IV's army to invade Mithridates' Kingdom of Pontus in 89 BC. Mithridates won a decisive victory, scattering the Roman-led forces. His victorious forces were welcomed throughout Anatolia. The following year, 88 BC, Mithridates orchestrated a massacre of Roman and <a href="/wiki/Italic_peoples" title="Italic peoples">Italian</a> settlers remaining in several major Anatolian cities, including <a href="/wiki/Pergamon" title="Pergamon">Pergamon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tralles" class="mw-redirect" title="Tralles">Tralles</a>, essentially wiping out the Roman presence in the region. As many as 80,000 people are said to have perished in the massacre.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The episode is known as the <a href="/wiki/Asiatic_Vespers" title="Asiatic Vespers">Asiatic Vespers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Kingdom of Pontus comprised a mixed population in its <a href="/wiki/Ionians" title="Ionians">Ionian Greek</a> and Anatolian cities. The royal family moved the capital from <a href="/wiki/Amasya" title="Amasya">Amasia</a> to the Greek city of Sinope. Its rulers tried to fully assimilate the potential of their subjects by showing a Greek face to the Greek world and an Iranian/Anatolian face to the Eastern world. Whenever the gap between the rulers and their Anatolian subjects became greater, they would put emphasis on their Persian origins. In this manner, the royal propaganda claimed heritage both from Persian and Greek rulers, including <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a>, <a href="/wiki/Darius_I_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Darius I of Persia">Darius I of Persia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus I Nicator</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mithridates too posed as a champion of <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_civilization" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic civilization">Hellenism</a>, but this was mainly to further his political ambitions; it is no proof that he felt a mission to promote its extension within his domains.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whatever his true intentions, the Greek cities (including <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>) defected to the side of Mithridates and welcomed his armies in <a href="/wiki/Mainland_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Mainland Greece">mainland Greece</a>, while his fleet besieged the Romans at <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a>. His neighbor to the southeast, the King of Armenia <a href="/wiki/Tigranes_the_Great" title="Tigranes the Great">Tigranes the Great</a>, established an alliance with Mithridates and married one of Mithridates' daughters, <a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_of_Pontus" title="Cleopatra of Pontus">Cleopatra of Pontus</a>. The two rulers would continue to support each other in the coming conflict with Rome.<sup id="cite_ref-Badmoutioun_Hayots,_Volume_I_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Badmoutioun_Hayots,_Volume_I-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Q._Pompeius_Rufus,_denarius,_54_BC,_RRC_434-1_(Sulla_only).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Q._Pompeius_Rufus%2C_denarius%2C_54_BC%2C_RRC_434-1_%28Sulla_only%29.jpg/220px-Q._Pompeius_Rufus%2C_denarius%2C_54_BC%2C_RRC_434-1_%28Sulla_only%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Q._Pompeius_Rufus%2C_denarius%2C_54_BC%2C_RRC_434-1_%28Sulla_only%29.jpg/330px-Q._Pompeius_Rufus%2C_denarius%2C_54_BC%2C_RRC_434-1_%28Sulla_only%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Q._Pompeius_Rufus%2C_denarius%2C_54_BC%2C_RRC_434-1_%28Sulla_only%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="399" data-file-height="354" /></a><figcaption>Roman coin of 54 BC, depicting <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Romans responded to the massacre of 88 BC by organising a large invasion force to defeat Mithridates and remove him from power. The <a href="/wiki/First_Mithridatic_War" title="First Mithridatic War">First Mithridatic War</a>, fought between 88 and 84 BC, saw <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucius Cornelius Sulla">Lucius Cornelius Sulla</a> force Mithridates out of Greece proper. After achieving victory in several battles, Sulla received news of trouble back in Rome posed by his rival <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Gaius Marius</a> and hurriedly concluded peace talks with Mithridates. As Sulla returned to Italy, <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Licinius_Murena_(propraetor_in_Asia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucius Licinius Murena (propraetor in Asia)">Lucius Licinius Murena</a> was left in charge of Roman forces in Anatolia. The lenient peace treaty, which was never ratified by the Senate, allowed Mithridates VI to restore his forces. Murena attacked Mithridates in 83 BC, provoking the <a href="/wiki/Second_Mithridatic_War" title="Second Mithridatic War">Second Mithridatic War</a> from 83 to 81 BC. Mithridates defeated Murena's two green legions at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Halys" title="Battle of Halys">Battle of Halys</a> in 82 BC before peace was again declared by treaty.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>When Rome attempted to annex Bithynia (bequeathed to Rome by its last king) nearly a decade later, Mithridates attacked with an even larger army, leading to the <a href="/wiki/Third_Mithridatic_War" title="Third Mithridatic War">Third Mithridatic War</a> from 73 BC to 63 BC. <a href="/wiki/Lucullus" title="Lucullus">Lucullus</a> was sent against Mithridates and the Romans routed the Pontic forces at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cabira" title="Battle of Cabira">Battle of Cabira</a> in 72 BC, driving Mithridates into exile in Tigranes' Armenia. While Lucullus was preoccupied fighting the Armenians, Mithridates surged back to retake Pontus by crushing four Roman legions under Valerius Triarius and killing 7,000 Roman soldiers at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zela_(67_BC)" title="Battle of Zela (67 BC)">Battle of Zela</a> in 67 BC. He was routed by <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a>'s legions at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lycus" title="Battle of the Lycus">Battle of the Lycus</a> in 66 BC. </p><p>After this defeat, Mithridates fled with a small army to Colchis and then over the Caucasus Mountains to <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a> and made plans to raise yet another army to take on the Romans. His eldest living son, <a href="/wiki/Machares" title="Machares">Machares</a>, viceroy of Cimmerian Bosporus, was unwilling to aid his father. Mithridates had Machares killed, and Mithridates took the throne of the <a href="/wiki/Bosporan_Kingdom" title="Bosporan Kingdom">Bosporan Kingdom</a>. He then ordered conscription and preparations for war. In 63 BC, another of his sons, <a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_II_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces II of Pontus">Pharnaces II of Pontus</a>, led a rebellion against his father, joined by Roman exiles in the core of Mithridates' Pontic army. Mithridates withdrew to the citadel in <a href="/wiki/Panticapaeum" class="mw-redirect" title="Panticapaeum">Panticapaeum</a>, where he committed suicide. Pompey buried Mithridates in the rock-cut tombs of his ancestors in Amasia, the old capital of Pontus.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Pompey defeated him in Pontus, Mithridates VI fled to the lands north of the Black Sea in the winter of 66 BC in the hope that he could raise a new army and carry on the war through invading Italy by way of the Danube.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_12-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His preparations proved to be too harsh on the local nobles and populace, and they rebelled against his rule. He reportedly attempted suicide by poison, which failed because of his immunity to the substance.<sup id="cite_ref-rome-leglay_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rome-leglay-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Appian" title="Appian">Appian's</a> <i>Roman History</i>, he then requested his <a href="/wiki/Gauls" title="Gauls">Gallic</a> bodyguard and friend, Bituitus, to kill him by the sword: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Mithridates then took out some poison that he always carried next to his sword, and mixed it. There two of his daughters, who were still girls growing up together, named Mithridates and Nysa, who had been betrothed to the kings of [Ptolemaic] Egypt and of Cyprus, asked him to let them have some of the poison first, and insisted strenuously and prevented him from drinking it until they had taken some and swallowed it. The drug took effect on them at once; but upon Mithridates, although he walked around rapidly to hasten its action, it had no effect, because he had accustomed himself to other drugs by continually trying them as a means of protection against poisoners. These are still called the Mithridatic drugs. Seeing a certain Bituitus there, an officer of the Gauls, he said to him, "I have profited much from your right arm against my enemies. I shall profit from it most of all if you will kill me, and save from the danger of being led in a <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">Roman triumph</a> one who has been an autocrat so many years, and the ruler of so great a kingdom, but who is now unable to die by poison because, like a fool, he has fortified himself against the poison of others. Although I have kept watch and ward against all the poisons that one takes with his food, I have not provided against that domestic poison, always the most dangerous to kings, the treachery of army, children, and friends." Bituitus, thus appealed to, rendered the king the service that he desired.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Cassius_Dio" title="Cassius Dio">Cassius Dio</a>'s <i>Roman History</i> records a different account: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Mithridates had tried to make away with himself, and after first removing his wives and remaining children by poison, he had swallowed all that was left; yet neither by that means nor by the sword was he able to perish by his own hands. For the poison, although deadly, did not prevail over him, since he had inured his constitution to it, taking precautionary antidotes in large doses every day; and the force of the sword blow was lessened on account of the weakness of his hand, caused by his age and present misfortunes, and as a result of taking the poison, whatever it was. When, therefore, he failed to take his life through his own efforts and seemed to linger beyond the proper time, those whom he had sent against his son fell upon him and hastened his end with their swords and spears. Thus Mithridates, who had experienced the most varied and remarkable fortune, had not even an ordinary end to his life. For he desired to die, albeit unwillingly, and though eager to kill himself was unable to do so; but partly by poison and partly by the sword he was at once self-slain and murdered by his foes.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>At the behest of Pompey, Mithridates' body was later buried alongside his ancestors (in either Sinope or <a href="/wiki/Amasya" title="Amasya">Amaseia</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mount_Mithridat" title="Mount Mithridat">Mount Mithridat</a> in the central <a href="/wiki/Kerch" title="Kerch">Kerch</a> and the town of <a href="/wiki/Yevpatoria" title="Yevpatoria">Yevpatoria</a> in Crimea commemorate his name.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rulership">Rulership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Rulership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mithridates_VI_Louvre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Mithridates_VI_Louvre.jpg/220px-Mithridates_VI_Louvre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Mithridates_VI_Louvre.jpg/330px-Mithridates_VI_Louvre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Mithridates_VI_Louvre.jpg/440px-Mithridates_VI_Louvre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of Mithridates as <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a>, Roman Imperial period.</figcaption></figure> <p>Where his ancestors pursued <a href="/wiki/Philhellenism" title="Philhellenism">philhellenism</a> as a means of attaining respectability and prestige among the Hellenistic kingdoms, Mithridates VI made use of Hellenism as a political tool.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_12-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Greeks, Romans and Asians were welcome at his court.<sup id="cite_ref-Britannica_12-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Britannica-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As protector of Greek cities on the Black Sea and in Asia against barbarism, Mithridates VI logically became protector of Greece and Greek culture, and used this stance in his clashes with Rome.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Strabo mentions that Chersonesus buckled under the pressure of the <a href="/wiki/Barbarians" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbarians">barbarians</a> and asked Mithridates VI to become its protector (7.4.3. c.308). The most impressive symbol of Mithridates VI's approbation with Greece (Athens in particular) appears at <a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a>: a <a href="/wiki/Heroon" class="mw-redirect" title="Heroon">heroon</a> dedicated to the Pontic king in 102/1 BC by the Athenian Helianax, a priest of <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a> Aisios.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A dedication at <a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a>, by Dicaeus, a priest of <a href="/wiki/Sarapis" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarapis">Sarapis</a>, was made in 94/93 BC on behalf of the Athenians, Romans, and "King Mithridates Eupator Dionysus".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Greek styles mixed with Persian elements also abound on official <a href="/wiki/Coinage_of_the_Kingdom_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="Coinage of the Kingdom of Pontus">Pontic coins</a> – <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a> was favored as an intermediary between both worlds, East and West.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Certainly influenced by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a>, Mithridates VI extended his propaganda from "defender" of Greece to the "great liberator" of the Greek world as war with the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a> became inevitable. The Romans were easily translated into "barbarians", in the same sense as the <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Persian Empire</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Persian_Wars" title="Greco-Persian Wars">war with Persia</a> in the first half of the 5th century BC and during Alexander's campaign. How many Greeks genuinely agreed with this claim will never be known. It served its purpose; at least partially because of it, Mithridates VI was able to fight the <a href="/wiki/First_Mithridatic_War" title="First Mithridatic War">First War with Rome</a> on Greek soil, and maintain the allegiance of Greece.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His campaign for the allegiance of the Greeks was aided in no small part by his enemy Sulla, who allowed his troops to <a href="/wiki/Delphi#Treasuries" title="Delphi">sack the city of Delphi</a> and plunder many of the city's most famous treasures to help finance his military expenses.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Immunity_to_poison">Immunity to poison</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Immunity to poison"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Mithridate" title="Mithridate">Mithridate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mithridatism" title="Mithridatism">Mithridatism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Theriac" title="Theriac">Theriac</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:De_medicina_V00117_00000006.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/De_medicina_V00117_00000006.tif/lossy-page1-220px-De_medicina_V00117_00000006.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/De_medicina_V00117_00000006.tif/lossy-page1-330px-De_medicina_V00117_00000006.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/De_medicina_V00117_00000006.tif/lossy-page1-440px-De_medicina_V00117_00000006.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2088" data-file-height="3153" /></a><figcaption><i>De Medicina</i></figcaption></figure> <p>In his youth, after the assassination of his father Mithridates V in <span class="nowrap">120 BC,</span> Mithridates is said to have lived in the wilderness for seven years, inuring himself to hardship. While there and after his accession, he cultivated an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses of poisons, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Arsenic" title="Arsenic">arsenic</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201428_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201428-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that killed his father <a href="/wiki/Mithridates_V_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithridates V of Pontus">Mithridates V</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This form of <a href="/wiki/Hormesis" title="Hormesis">hormesis</a> is effective against some but not all toxins and subsequently became known as <a href="/wiki/Mithridatism" title="Mithridatism">Mithridatism</a> or Mithridatization. After he became king of Pontus, Mithridates continued to study poisons and develop antidotes, whose initial efficacies were tested on Pontic criminals <a href="/wiki/Death_penalty" class="mw-redirect" title="Death penalty">condemned to death</a>. <a href="/wiki/Attalus_III" title="Attalus III">Attalus III</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pergamum" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Pergamum">Pergamon</a> (d. 133 BC) is also known to have studied poisons and antidotes in this way.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin20043_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin20043-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In keeping with most medical practices of his era, Mithridates' antitoxin routines included a religious component; they were supervised by the <i>Agari</i>, a group of Scythian <a href="/wiki/Shaman" class="mw-redirect" title="Shaman">shamans</a> who never left him. (He was also reportedly guarded in his sleep by a horse, a bull, and a stag, which would whinny, bellow, and bleat whenever anyone approached the royal bed.)<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_medicine" title="Ancient Greek medicine">Greek doctor</a> <a href="/wiki/Crateuas_(physician)" title="Crateuas (physician)">Crateuas the Rootcutter</a> may have worked directly under Mithridates or may have only been in correspondence with him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin20044_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin20044-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mithridates was also said to have received samples including <a href="/w/index.php?title=Megalium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Megalium (page does not exist)">megalium</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kyphi" title="Kyphi">kyphi</a><sup id="cite_ref-nor_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from <a href="/wiki/Zopyrus_(physician)" title="Zopyrus (physician)">Zopyrus of Alexandria</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin20045_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin20045-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and treatises from <a href="/wiki/Asclepiades_of_Bithynia" title="Asclepiades of Bithynia">Asclepiades</a> in lieu of a requested visit.<sup id="cite_ref-plin_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plin-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time of his death in <span class="nowrap">63 BC,</span> Mithridates was reported to have developed a complex "universal antidote" against poisoning, which he took every day with cold <a href="/wiki/Spring_water" class="mw-redirect" title="Spring water">spring water</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201428_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201428-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and which became known as <a href="/wiki/Mithridate" title="Mithridate">mithridate</a> or mithridatium. He was said to consume it daily. The original formula has been entirely lost,<sup id="cite_ref-mith_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mith-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny</a> reports that Mithridates' various antidotes usually included the <a href="/wiki/Blood" title="Blood">blood</a> of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontic_duck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pontic duck (page does not exist)">Pontic ducks</a> (possibly <a href="/wiki/Ruddy_shelducks" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruddy shelducks">ruddy shelducks</a>), which fed on poisonous plants<sup id="cite_ref-plin_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plin-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> like <a href="/wiki/Hellebore" title="Hellebore">hellebore</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201424_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201424-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Apiaceae" title="Apiaceae">hemlock</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201429_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201429-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and thus provided a kind of <a href="/wiki/Antiserum" title="Antiserum">serum</a> against them. Elsewhere, Pliny reports that surviving notes of Mithridates' work did not include exotic ingredients<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201432_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201432-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that Pompey found an antidote recipe among Mithridates' notes that consisted of 2 dried <a href="/wiki/Walnut" title="Walnut">walnuts</a>, 2 <a href="/wiki/Fig" title="Fig">figs</a>, and 20 <a href="/wiki/Rue" class="mw-redirect" title="Rue">rue</a> leaves, which were supposed to be crushed together and taken with a pinch of salt by a person who had <a href="/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting">fasted</a> for at least one day.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_legion" title="Roman legion">legions</a> under <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> who had defeated Mithridates killed his secretary Callistratus and burnt some of his papers,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201433_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201433-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but were also reported to have taken an extensive medicinal library and collection of specimens back to <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Rome</a>, where Pompey's slave <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pompeius_Lenaeus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pompeius Lenaeus (page does not exist)">Lenaeus</a> translated them into <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a><sup id="cite_ref-plin_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plin-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin20045_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin20045-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Roman medicine">Roman doctors</a> like <a href="/wiki/Aulus_Cornelius_Celsus" title="Aulus Cornelius Celsus">A. Cornelius Celsus</a> began <a href="/wiki/Medical_prescription" title="Medical prescription">prescribing</a> various recipes under the name of Mithridates' antidote (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">antidotum Mithridaticum</i>). Numerous recipes survive from the <a href="/wiki/1st_century" title="1st century">1st century</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-mith_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mith-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> all consisting of a <a href="/wiki/Polypharmacy" title="Polypharmacy">polypharmiceutical</a> <a href="/wiki/Electuary" title="Electuary">electuary</a> including <a href="/wiki/Castoreum" title="Castoreum">castor</a> from <a href="/wiki/Willow" title="Willow">willow</a>-consuming <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_beaver" title="Eurasian beaver">beavers</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201424_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201424-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Opium" title="Opium">opium</a> sweetened with <a href="/wiki/Honey" title="Honey">honey</a>—Pontic honey tending to contain mild amounts of poison from local plants like <a href="/wiki/Rhododendron" title="Rhododendron">rhododendron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oleander" class="mw-redirect" title="Oleander">oleander</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201424_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201424-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—but otherwise all differing in both ingredients and amounts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin20047–8_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin20047–8-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It seems likely Pompey and Lenaeus kept Mithridates' personal recipe secret, leading to various attempts to recreate it after their deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin20049_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin20049-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A foreign father and son both named Paccius seem to have become rich selling their own secret recipe under <a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-may_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-may-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around the same time, Celsus advocated taking an almond-sized amount of his <a href="/wiki/Ginger" title="Ginger">ginger</a>-heavy preparation daily with <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine" title="Ancient Rome and wine">wine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nor_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Andromachus_(physician)" title="Andromachus (physician)">Andromachus the Elder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a>'s court physician, developed <a href="/wiki/Theriac" title="Theriac">theriac</a> (<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">theriaca Andromachi</i></span>) by supplementing the versions of Mithridates' formula known in his day with more <a href="/wiki/Opium" title="Opium">opium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poppy_seed" title="Poppy seed">poppy seeds</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-may_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-may-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a <a href="/wiki/Homeopathy" title="Homeopathy">homeopathic</a> addition of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Snakemeat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Snakemeat (page does not exist)">viper flesh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mith_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mith-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the vats uncovered at <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> seems to have been used to create this version of Mithridates' antidote.<sup id="cite_ref-may_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-may-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Galen" title="Galen">Galen</a> added still more opium<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201431_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201431-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a <a href="/wiki/Skink" title="Skink">skink</a> in his version of the recipe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin200410_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin200410-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the plants shared across these early forms of mithridate, many seem to be strongly odoriferous<sup id="cite_ref-nor_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or to exhibit <a href="/wiki/Antibacterial" class="mw-redirect" title="Antibacterial">antibacterial</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201427_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201427-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Anti-inflammatory" title="Anti-inflammatory">anti-inflammatory</a> abilities;<sup id="cite_ref-nor_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it is also noteworthy that bioactive alkaloids<sup id="cite_ref-nor_34-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and poisons are <i>not</i> widely represented.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201432_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201432-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mithridate and theriac continued to be staples of <a href="/wiki/History_of_medicine" title="History of medicine">Western</a> and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic medicine">Islamic medicine</a> into the 19th century,<sup id="cite_ref-mith_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mith-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> consumed by <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a><sup id="cite_ref-may_48-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-may-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and emperors, kings, and queens including <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin200410_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin200410-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Septimus_Severus" class="mw-redirect" title="Septimus Severus">Septimus Severus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin200414_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin200414-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Alfred_the_Great" title="Alfred the Great">Alfred the Great</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201431_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201431-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201431_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201431-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Queen Elizabeth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201431_49-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201431-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some medieval preparations had as many as 184 ingredients.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201431_49-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201431-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Owing to the idea that disease could be caused by "internal poisons", the antidotes also came to be thought of as <a href="/wiki/Panacea" title="Panacea">panaceas</a> able to cure damage from falls, some illnesses, or even all illnesses.<sup id="cite_ref-nor_34-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When it failed, the problem was believed to be improper preparation or storage, leading some jurisdictions to legally require its preparation in full view of the public in city squares.<sup id="cite_ref-grif_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grif-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Concerns about mithridate's purity and later inefficacy were closely involved with the development of medical and pharmaceutical regulation.<sup id="cite_ref-grif_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grif-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mithridate remains available from some doctors, particularly in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mith_37-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mith-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As early as <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny</a>, however, some considered it <a href="/wiki/Quackery" title="Quackery">quackery</a><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its various components and proportions <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscientific</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETotelin200416_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETotelin200416-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chinese_medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese medicine">Chinese doctors</a> received samples of mithridate from Muslim ambassadors in the <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang dynasty</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201431_49-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201431-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but never popularized or advocated it. The Islamic scientist <a href="/wiki/Averroes" title="Averroes">Averroes</a>, meanwhile, believed it may be helpful in some cases but cautioned against regular consumption by the healthy as it "could actually transform human nature into a kind of poison".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMayor201431_49-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMayor201431-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It notably failed as a cure to <a href="/wiki/Bubonic_plague" title="Bubonic plague">plague</a> and <a href="/wiki/Epilepsy" title="Epilepsy">epilepsy</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-nor_34-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/William_Heberden" title="William Heberden">William Heberden</a>'s 1745 <i>Antitheriaca</i> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Αντιθηριακα</span>, <i>Antithēriaka</i>) helped fully discredit it in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-grif_54-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grif-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 19th century, it was only being prescribed for <a href="/wiki/Dyspepsia" class="mw-redirect" title="Dyspepsia">dyspepsia</a> or described as of historical interest only.<sup id="cite_ref-nor_34-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nor-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Polyglot">Polyglot</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Polyglot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a>'s account of famous <a href="/wiki/Polyglot_(person)" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyglot (person)">polyglots</a>, Mithridates could <a href="/wiki/Hyperpolyglot" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyperpolyglot">speak the languages of all</a> the twenty-two nations he governed.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This reputation led to the use of Mithridates' name as title in some later works on comparative linguistics, such as <a href="/wiki/Conrad_Gessner" title="Conrad Gessner">Conrad Gessner</a>'s <i>Mithridates de differentiis linguarum</i> (1555), and Adelung and Vater's <i>Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde</i> (1806–1817).<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family">Family</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mithridates VI had a number of wives and mistresses, by whom he had several children. The names he gave his children are a representation of his <a href="/wiki/Iranic" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranic">Iranic</a> and Greek heritage and ancestry.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>His first wife was <a href="/wiki/Laodice_(sister-wife_of_Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus)" title="Laodice (sister-wife of Mithridates VI of Pontus)">his sister Laodice</a>. They were married from 115/113 BC until about 90 BC. They had several children. Their sons were <a href="/wiki/Mithridates_of_Colchis" title="Mithridates of Colchis">Mithridates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arcathius" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcathius">Arcathius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Machares" title="Machares">Machares</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_II_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces II of Pontus">Pharnaces II of Pontus</a>. Their daughters were <a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_of_Pontus" title="Cleopatra of Pontus">Cleopatra of Pontus</a> (sometimes called Cleopatra the Elder to distinguish her from her sister of the same name) and <a href="/wiki/Drypetina" title="Drypetina">Drypetina</a> (a diminutive form of "<a href="/wiki/Drypetis" title="Drypetis">Drypetis</a>"). Drypetina was Mithridates VI's most devoted daughter. Her baby teeth never fell out, so she had a <a href="/wiki/Supernumerary_teeth" class="mw-redirect" title="Supernumerary teeth">double set of teeth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His second wife was a Greek Macedonian noblewoman, <a href="/wiki/Monime" title="Monime">Monime</a>. They were married from about 89/88 BC until 72/71 BC and had a daughter, <a href="/wiki/Athenais_Philostorgos_II" title="Athenais Philostorgos II">Athenais</a>, who married King <a href="/wiki/Ariobarzanes_II_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia">Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia</a>. His next two wives were also Greek: he was married to his third wife <a href="/wiki/Berenice_of_Chios" title="Berenice of Chios">Berenice of Chios</a>, from 86 to 72/71 BC, and to his fourth wife <a href="/wiki/Stratonice_of_Pontus" title="Stratonice of Pontus">Stratonice of Pontus</a>, from sometime after 86 to 63 BC. Stratonice bore Mithridates a son <a href="/wiki/Xiphares" title="Xiphares">Xiphares</a>. His fifth wife is unknown. His sixth wife was Hypsicratea. </p><p>One of his mistresses was the Galatian Celtic princess <a href="/wiki/Adobogiona_the_Elder" title="Adobogiona the Elder">Adobogiona the Elder</a>. By Adobogiona, Mithridates had two children: a son called <a href="/wiki/Mithridates_I_of_the_Bosporus" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithridates I of the Bosporus">Mithridates I of the Bosporus</a> and a daughter called <a href="/wiki/Adobogiona_the_Younger" title="Adobogiona the Younger">Adobogiona the Younger</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>His sons born from his concubines were Cyrus, Xerxes, Darius, <a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_IX_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia">Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia</a>, Artaphernes, Oxathres, Phoenix (Mithridates' son by a mistress of Syrian descent), and Exipodras, named after kings of the <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Persian Empire</a>, which he claimed ancestry from. His daughters born from his concubines were Nysa, Eupatra, Cleopatra the Younger, Mithridatis and <a href="/wiki/Orsabaris" title="Orsabaris">Orsabaris</a>. Nysa and Mithridatis, were engaged to the <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty" title="Ptolemaic dynasty">Egyptian Greek Pharaohs</a> <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XII_Auletes" title="Ptolemy XII Auletes">Ptolemy XII Auletes</a> and his brother <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_of_Cyprus" title="Ptolemy of Cyprus">Ptolemy of Cyprus</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 63 BC, when the Kingdom of Pontus was annexed by the Roman general Pompey, the remaining sisters, wives, mistresses and children of Mithridates VI in Pontus were put to death. Plutarch, writing in his <i>Lives</i>, states that Mithridates' sister and five of his children took part in Pompey's triumphal procession on his return to Rome in 61 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Cappadocia" title="Cappadocia">Cappadocian</a> Greek nobleman and high priest of the temple-state of <a href="/wiki/Comana_(Cappadocia)" title="Comana (Cappadocia)">Comana, Cappadocia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archelaus_(high_priest_of_Comana_Cappadocia)" title="Archelaus (high priest of Comana Cappadocia)">Archelaus</a> was descended from Mithridates VI.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He claimed to be a son of Mithridates VI;<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the chronology suggests that Archelaus may actually have been a maternal grandson of the Pontic king, and the son of Mithridates VI's favourite general, who may have married one of the daughters of Mithridates VI.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_depictions">Cultural depictions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Cultural depictions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Mithridates_VI_Eupator" title="Special:EditPage/Mithridates VI Eupator">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. 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This play is the basis for several 18th century operas including one of <a href="/wiki/Mozart" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozart">Mozart</a>'s earliest, known most commonly by its Italian name, <i><a href="/wiki/Mitridate,_re_di_Ponto" title="Mitridate, re di Ponto">Mitridate, re di Ponto</a></i> (1770).</li> <li>Mithridates is the subject of the opera <i><a href="/wiki/Mitridate_Eupatore" title="Mitridate Eupatore">Mitridate Eupatore</a></i> (1707) by <a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Scarlatti" title="Alessandro Scarlatti">Alessandro Scarlatti</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> included his "Mithridates" in his 1847 <i>Poems</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas,_p%C3%A8re" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexandre Dumas, père">Alexandre Dumas</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo" title="The Count of Monte Cristo">The Count of Monte Cristo</a></i> refers to the potential of a <a href="/wiki/Mithridate" title="Mithridate">mithridate</a> as an instrument both of defense and offence.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, amidst casting about for poetic themes in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Prelude" class="extiw" title="s:The Prelude">The Prelude</a></i> (Bk i vv 186 ff):</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>Sometimes, more sternly moved, I would relate<br /> How vanquished Mithridates northward passed,<br /> And, hidden in the cloud of years, became<br /> Odin, the Father of a race by whom<br /> </p><p> Perished the Roman Empire.</p></blockquote> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a> alludes to Mithridates' immunity to poison in his love poem <i>Though I Thy Mithridates Were</i>.</li> <li>The poet <a href="/wiki/A._E._Housman" title="A. E. Housman">A. E. Housman</a> alludes to Mithridates' antidote in the final stanza of <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Terence,_This_Is_Stupid_Stuff" class="extiw" title="s:Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff">"Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff"</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad" title="A Shropshire Lad">A Shropshire Lad</a></i>:</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>There was a king reigned in the East:<br /> There, when kings will sit to feast,<br /> They get their fill before they think<br /> With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.<br /> He gathered all that springs to birth<br /> From the many-venomed earth;<br /> First a little, thence to more,<br /> He sampled all her killing store;<br /> And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,<br /> Sate the king when healths went round.<br /> They put <a href="/wiki/Arsenic" title="Arsenic">arsenic</a> in his meat<br /> And stared aghast to watch him eat;<br /> They poured <a href="/wiki/Strychnine" title="Strychnine">strychnine</a> in his cup<br /> And shook to see him drink it up:<br /> They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:<br /> Them it was their poison hurt.<br /> –I tell the tale that I heard told.<br /> </p><p> Mithridates, he died old.</p></blockquote> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_L._Sayers" title="Dorothy L. Sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a>' <a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">detective novel</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Strong_Poison" title="Strong Poison">Strong Poison</a></i>, from 1929, has the protagonist, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey" title="Lord Peter Wimsey">Lord Peter Wimsey</a>, solve a case of murder by <a href="/wiki/Arsenic" title="Arsenic">arsenic</a> poisoning, and quotes the last line from Housman's poem.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Grass_Crown_(novel)" title="The Grass Crown (novel)">The Grass Crown</a></i>, the second in the <i><a href="/wiki/Masters_of_Rome" title="Masters of Rome">Masters of Rome</a></i> series, <a href="/wiki/Colleen_McCullough" title="Colleen McCullough">Colleen McCullough</a> describes in detail the various aspects of his life – the murder of <a href="/wiki/Laodice_(sister-wife_of_Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus)" title="Laodice (sister-wife of Mithridates VI of Pontus)">Laodice</a>, and the Roman Consul who, quite alone and surrounded by the Pontic army, ordered Mithridates to leave Cappadocia immediately and go back to Pontus – which he did.</li> <li><i>The Last King</i> is a <a href="/wiki/Historical_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical novel">historical novel</a> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Curtis_Ford" title="Michael Curtis Ford">Michael Curtis Ford</a> about the King and his exploits against the Roman Republic.</li> <li>Mithridates is a major character in <a href="/wiki/Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a>'s novel <i>The Golden Slave.</i></li> <li>In the novel <i>Mithridates is Dead</i> (Spanish: <i>Mitrídates ha muerto</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ignasi_Rib%C3%B3" title="Ignasi Ribó">Ignasi Ribó</a> traces parallels between the historical figures of Mithridates and <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>. Within a postmodern narrative of the making and unmaking of history, Ribó suggests that the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> on the United States closely paralleled the massacre of Roman citizens in 88 B.C. and prompted similar consequences, namely the imperialist overstretch of the American and Roman republics respectively. Furthermore, he suggests that the ensuing <a href="/wiki/Mithridatic_Wars" title="Mithridatic Wars">Mithridatic Wars</a> were one of the key factors in the demise of Rome's republican regime, as well as in the spread of the Christian faith in Asia Minor and eventually throughout the whole Roman Empire. The novel implies that the current events in the world might have similar <a href="/wiki/Unforeseen_consequence" class="mw-redirect" title="Unforeseen consequence">unforeseen consequences</a>.</li> <li>In <i>The King's Gambit</i>, the first volume of the <a href="/wiki/SPQR_series" title="SPQR series">SPQR series</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_Maddox_Roberts" title="John Maddox Roberts">John Maddox Roberts</a>, the protagonist, Decius Metellus, becomes aware of a plot between <a href="/wiki/Gnaeus_Pompeius_Magnus" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus">Pompey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus" title="Marcus Licinius Crassus">Crassus</a> to relieve Lucullus of command and allow Pompey to lead the final campaign against Mithradates. At the time of this novel, Decius reflects that Mithradates has successfully resisted Roman military campaigns for so long that the public has built him up as some kind of superhuman <a href="/wiki/Bogeyman" title="Bogeyman">bogeyman</a>.</li> <li>Mithridates and his wife Monime are characters in <a href="/wiki/Steven_Saylor" title="Steven Saylor">Steven Saylor</a>'s 2015 novel <i>Wrath of the Furies</i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Epistula_Mithridatis" title="Epistula Mithridatis">Epistula Mithridatis</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bosporan_Kingdom" title="Bosporan Kingdom">Bosporan Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridatism" title="Mithridatism">Mithridatism</a> (Mithridatization)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridatic_Wars" title="Mithridatic Wars">Mithridatic Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Crimea" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Crimea">Roman Crimea</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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XXV, §§5–7</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mith-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mith_37-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mith_37-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mith_37-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mith_37-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mith_37-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTotelin2004" class="citation cs2">Totelin, Laurence M.V. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 February</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Mitr%C3%ADdates+ha+muerto&rft.pub=Editorial+Bubok&rft.date=2010-10-05&rft.aulast=Rib%C3%B3&rft.aufirst=Ignasi&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bubok.es%2Flibros%2F190797%2Fmitridates-ha-muerto&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMithridates+VI+Eupator" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library" title="Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library">Library resources</a> about <br /> <b>Mithridates VI of Pontus</b> <hr /></div> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Mithridates+VI+Eupator&library=OLBP">Online books</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Mithridates+VI+Eupator">Resources in your library</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Mithridates+VI+Eupator&library=0CHOOSE0">Resources in other libraries</a></li> </ul></div></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcGing2004" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">McGing, Brian (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/pontus">"Pontus"</a>. <i>Encyclopaedia Iranica</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Pontus&rft.btitle=Encyclopaedia+Iranica&rft.date=2004&rft.aulast=McGing&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iranicaonline.org%2Farticles%2Fpontus&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMithridates+VI+Eupator" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcGing2009" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">McGing, Brian (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mithridates-vi-eupator-dionysos">"Mithridates VI"</a>. <i>Encyclopaedia Iranica</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Mithridates+VI&rft.btitle=Encyclopaedia+Iranica&rft.date=2009&rft.aulast=McGing&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iranicaonline.org%2Farticles%2Fmithridates-vi-eupator-dionysos&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMithridates+VI+Eupator" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchmitt2005" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Schmitt, Rüdiger (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/personal-names-iranian-iii-achaemenid">"Personal names, Iranian iii. Achaemenid Period"</a>. <i>Encyclopaedia Iranica</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Personal+names%2C+Iranian+iii.+Achaemenid+Period&rft.btitle=Encyclopaedia+Iranica&rft.date=2005&rft.aulast=Schmitt&rft.aufirst=R%C3%BCdiger&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iranicaonline.org%2Farticles%2Fpersonal-names-iranian-iii-achaemenid&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMithridates+VI+Eupator" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMayor2009" class="citation book cs1">Mayor, Adrienne (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dKnFZa4LNjQC"><i>The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy</i></a>. Princeton University Press. pp. 1–448. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780691150260" title="Special:BookSources/9780691150260"><bdi>9780691150260</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Poison+King%3A+The+Life+and+Legend+of+Mithradates%2C+Rome%27s+Deadliest+Enemy&rft.pages=1-448&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=9780691150260&rft.aulast=Mayor&rft.aufirst=Adrienne&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DdKnFZa4LNjQC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMithridates+VI+Eupator" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Duggan, Alfred, <i>He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus</i>, 1958.</li> <li>Ford, Michael Curtis, <i>The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy</i>, New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2004, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-312-27539-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-312-27539-0">0-312-27539-0</a></li> <li>McGing, B. C. <i>The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus</i> (<i>Mnemosyne</i>, Supplements: 89), Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers, 1986, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/90-04-07591-7" title="Special:BookSources/90-04-07591-7">90-04-07591-7</a> [paperback]</li> <li>Cohen, Getzel M., <i>Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands and Asia Minor</i> (Berkeley, 1995).</li> <li>Ballesteros Pastor, Luis. <i>Mitrídates Eupátor, rey del Ponto</i>. Granada: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Granada, 1996, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/84-338-2213-6" title="Special:BookSources/84-338-2213-6">84-338-2213-6</a>.</li> <li>Ribó, Ignasi, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733597037"><i>Mitrídates ha muerto</i></a>, Madrid, Bubok, 2010, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-84-9981-114-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-84-9981-114-7">978-84-9981-114-7</a></li> <li>Mayor, Adrienne, <i>The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy</i> (Princeton, PUP, 2009).</li> <li>Madsen, Jesper Majbom, Mithradates VI : Rome's perfect enemy. In: <i>Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Athens</i> Vol. 6, 2010, pp. 223–237.</li> <li>Ballesteros Pastor, Luis, <i>Pompeyo Trogo, Justino y Mitrídates. Comentario al</i> Epítome de las Historias Filípicas <i>(37,1,6–38,8,1)</i> (<i>Spudasmata</i> 154), Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 2013, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-487-15070-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-487-15070-3">978-3-487-15070-3</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mithridates_VI_Eupator&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" 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title="Philip V of Macedon">Philip V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perseus_of_Macedon" title="Perseus of Macedon">Perseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andriscus" title="Andriscus">Philip VI</a> (pretender)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom" title="Ptolemaic Kingdom">Ptolemies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter" title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy I Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Keraunos" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy Keraunos">Ptolemy Keraunos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_II_Philadelphus" title="Ptolemy II Philadelphus">Ptolemy II Philadelphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_III_Euergetes" title="Ptolemy III Euergetes">Ptolemy III Euergetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_IV_Philopator" title="Ptolemy IV Philopator">Ptolemy IV Philopator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" title="Ptolemy V Epiphanes">Ptolemy V Epiphanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_I_Syra" title="Cleopatra I Syra">Cleopatra I Syra</a> (regent)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor" title="Ptolemy VI Philometor">Ptolemy VI Philometor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_VII_Neos_Philopator" title="Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator">Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_II_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleopatra II of Egypt">Cleopatra II Philometor Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_VIII_Physcon" title="Ptolemy VIII Physcon">Ptolemy VIII Physcon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_III_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleopatra III of Egypt">Cleopatra III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_IX_Lathyros" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy IX Lathyros">Ptolemy IX Lathyros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_X_Alexander_I" title="Ptolemy X Alexander I">Ptolemy X Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berenice_III_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Berenice III of Egypt">Berenice III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XI_Alexander_II" title="Ptolemy XI Alexander II">Ptolemy XI Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XII_Auletes" title="Ptolemy XII Auletes">Ptolemy XII Auletes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_VI" title="Cleopatra VI">Cleopatra VI Tryphaena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berenice_IV" title="Berenice IV">Berenice IV Epiphanea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XIII_Theos_Philopator" title="Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator">Ptolemy XIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XIV_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy XIV of Egypt">Ptolemy XIV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra" title="Cleopatra">Cleopatra VII Philopator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caesarion" title="Caesarion">Ptolemy XV Caesarion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Cyrene" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Cyrene">Monarchs of Cyrene</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Magas_of_Cyrene" title="Magas of Cyrene">Magas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berenice_II_of_Egypt" title="Berenice II of Egypt">Berenice II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_the_Fair" title="Demetrius the Fair">Demetrius the Fair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_VIII_Physcon" title="Ptolemy VIII Physcon">Ptolemy VIII Physcon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Apion" title="Ptolemy Apion">Ptolemy Apion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_Selene_II" title="Cleopatra Selene II">Cleopatra Selene II</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus I Nicator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_I_Soter" title="Antiochus I Soter">Antiochus I Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_II_Theos" title="Antiochus II Theos">Antiochus II Theos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_II_Callinicus" title="Seleucus II Callinicus">Seleucus II Callinicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_III_Ceraunus" title="Seleucus III Ceraunus">Seleucus III Ceraunus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_IV_Philopator" title="Seleucus IV Philopator">Seleucus IV Philopator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_IV_Epiphanes" title="Antiochus IV Epiphanes">Antiochus IV Epiphanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_V_Eupator" title="Antiochus V Eupator">Antiochus V Eupator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_Soter" title="Demetrius I Soter">Demetrius I Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Balas" title="Alexander Balas">Alexander I Balas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_II_Nicator" title="Demetrius II Nicator">Demetrius II Nicator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_VI_Dionysus" title="Antiochus VI Dionysus">Antiochus VI Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodotus_Tryphon" title="Diodotus Tryphon">Diodotus Tryphon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_VII_Sidetes" title="Antiochus VII Sidetes">Antiochus VII Sidetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_II_Zabinas" title="Alexander II Zabinas">Alexander II Zabinas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_Thea" title="Cleopatra Thea">Cleopatra Thea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_V_Philometor" title="Seleucus V Philometor">Seleucus V Philometor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_VIII_Grypus" title="Antiochus VIII Grypus">Antiochus VIII Grypus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_IX_Cyzicenus" title="Antiochus IX Cyzicenus">Antiochus IX Cyzicenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_VI_Epiphanes" title="Seleucus VI Epiphanes">Seleucus VI Epiphanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_X_Eusebes" title="Antiochus X Eusebes">Antiochus X Eusebes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_XI_Epiphanes" title="Antiochus XI Epiphanes">Antiochus XI Epiphanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_III_Eucaerus" title="Demetrius III Eucaerus">Demetrius III Eucaerus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_I_Philadelphus" title="Philip I Philadelphus">Philip I Philadelphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_XII_Dionysus" title="Antiochus XII Dionysus">Antiochus XII Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_Selene_of_Syria" title="Cleopatra Selene of Syria">Cleopatra Selene I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_XIII_Asiaticus" title="Antiochus XIII Asiaticus">Antiochus XIII Asiaticus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_II_Philoromaeus" title="Philip II Philoromaeus">Philip II Philoromaeus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Epigonos" title="Ptolemy Epigonos">Ptolemy Epigonos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Attalid_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Attalid dynasty">Attalids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philetaerus" title="Philetaerus">Philetaerus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumenes_I" title="Eumenes I">Eumenes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attalus_I" title="Attalus I">Attalus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumenes_II" title="Eumenes II">Eumenes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attalus_II_Philadelphus" title="Attalus II Philadelphus">Attalus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attalus_III" title="Attalus III">Attalus III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumenes_III" title="Eumenes III">Eumenes III</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom" title="Greco-Bactrian Kingdom">Greco-Bactrians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Diodotus_I" title="Diodotus I">Diodotus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodotus_II" title="Diodotus II">Diodotus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euthydemus_I" title="Euthydemus I">Euthydemus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Bactria" title="Demetrius I of Bactria">Demetrius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euthydemus_II" title="Euthydemus II">Euthydemus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimachus_I" title="Antimachus I">Antimachus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantaleon" title="Pantaleon">Pantaleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agathocles_of_Bactria" title="Agathocles of Bactria">Agathocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_II_of_India" title="Demetrius II of India">Demetrius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eucratides_I" title="Eucratides I">Eucratides I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plato_of_Bactria" title="Plato of Bactria">Plato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eucratides_II" title="Eucratides II">Eucratides II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heliocles_I" title="Heliocles I">Heliocles I</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdom" title="Indo-Greek Kingdom">Indo-Greeks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Bactria" title="Demetrius I of Bactria">Demetrius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimachus_I" title="Antimachus I">Antimachus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantaleon" title="Pantaleon">Pantaleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agathocles_of_Bactria" title="Agathocles of Bactria">Agathocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollodotus_I" title="Apollodotus I">Apollodotus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_II_of_India" title="Demetrius II of India">Demetrius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimachus_II" title="Antimachus II">Antimachus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menander_I" title="Menander I">Menander I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoilos_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoilos I">Zoilos I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agathokleia" class="mw-redirect" title="Agathokleia">Agathokleia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lysias_Anicetus" title="Lysias Anicetus">Lysias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strato_I" title="Strato I">Strato I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antialcidas" title="Antialcidas">Antialcidas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heliokles_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Heliokles II">Heliokles II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyxenos_Epiphanes_Soter" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter">Polyxenos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_III_Aniketos" title="Demetrius III Aniketos">Demetrius III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philoxenus_Anicetus" title="Philoxenus Anicetus">Philoxenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diomedes_Soter" title="Diomedes Soter">Diomedes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_Nikator" class="mw-redirect" title="Amyntas Nikator">Amyntas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epander" title="Epander">Epander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophilos_(king)" class="mw-redirect" title="Theophilos (king)">Theophilos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peukolaos" class="mw-redirect" title="Peukolaos">Peukolaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thraso" title="Thraso">Thraso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicias_(Indo-Greek_king)" title="Nicias (Indo-Greek king)">Nicias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menander_II" title="Menander II">Menander II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemidoros" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemidoros">Artemidoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermaeus" title="Hermaeus">Hermaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archebius" title="Archebius">Archebius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telephos_Euergetes" class="mw-redirect" title="Telephos Euergetes">Telephos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollodotus_II" title="Apollodotus II">Apollodotus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippostratos" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippostratos">Hippostratos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysios_Soter" class="mw-redirect" title="Dionysios Soter">Dionysios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoilos_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoilos II">Zoilos II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollophanes" title="Apollophanes">Apollophanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strato_II" title="Strato II">Strato II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strato_III" title="Strato III">Strato III</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Bithynia" title="List of rulers of Bithynia">Monarchs of Bithynia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boteiras_of_Bithynia" title="Boteiras of Bithynia">Boteiras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bas_of_Bithynia" title="Bas of Bithynia">Bas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zipoetes_I_of_Bithynia" title="Zipoetes I of Bithynia">Zipoetes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_I_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes I of Bithynia">Nicomedes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zipoetes_II_of_Bithynia" title="Zipoetes II of Bithynia">Zipoetes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etazeta_of_Bithynia" title="Etazeta of Bithynia">Etazeta</a> (regent)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ziaelas_of_Bithynia" title="Ziaelas of Bithynia">Ziaelas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prusias_I_of_Bithynia" title="Prusias I of Bithynia">Prusias I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prusias_II_of_Bithynia" title="Prusias II of Bithynia">Prusias II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_II_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes II of Bithynia">Nicomedes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_III_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes III of Bithynia">Nicomedes III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_IV_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes IV of Bithynia">Nicomedes IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socrates_Chrestus" title="Socrates Chrestus">Socrates Chrestus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_kings_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="List of kings of Pontus">Monarchs of Pontus</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_I_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates I of Pontus">Mithridates I Ctistes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariobarzanes_of_Pontus" title="Ariobarzanes of Pontus">Ariobarzanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_II_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates II of Pontus">Mithridates II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_III_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates III of Pontus">Mithridates III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_I_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces I of Pontus">Pharnaces I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_IV_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates IV of Pontus">Mithridates IV Philopator Philadephos</a> with <a href="/wiki/Laodice_(sister-wife_of_Mithridates_IV_of_Pontus)" title="Laodice (sister-wife of Mithridates IV of Pontus)">Laodice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_V_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithridates V of Pontus">Mithridates V Euergetes</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mithridates VI Eupator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_II_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces II of Pontus">Pharnaces II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_of_Pontus" title="Darius of Pontus">Darius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsaces_of_Pontus" title="Arsaces of Pontus">Arsaces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polemon_I_of_Pontus" title="Polemon I of Pontus">Polemon I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pythodorida_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="Pythodorida of Pontus">Pythodorida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polemon_II_of_Pontus" title="Polemon II of Pontus">Polemon II</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Commagene" class="mw-redirect" title="List of rulers of Commagene">Monarchs of Commagene</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemaeus_of_Commagene" title="Ptolemaeus of Commagene">Ptolemaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sames_II_Theosebes_Dikaios" title="Sames II Theosebes Dikaios">Sames II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_I_Callinicus" title="Mithridates I Callinicus">Mithridates I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_I_Theos_of_Commagene" class="mw-redirect" title="Antiochus I Theos of Commagene">Antiochus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_II_of_Commagene" title="Mithridates II of Commagene">Mithridates II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_II_of_Commagene" title="Antiochus II of Commagene">Antiochus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_III_of_Commagene" title="Mithridates III of Commagene">Mithridates III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_of_Commagene" title="Antiochus III of Commagene">Antiochus III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_IV_of_Commagene" title="Antiochus IV of Commagene">Antiochus IV</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Cappadocia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of rulers of Cappadocia">Monarchs of Cappadocia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_I_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes I of Cappadocia">Ariarathes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_II_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes II of Cappadocia">Ariarathes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariamnes_of_Cappadocia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ariamnes of Cappadocia">Ariamnes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_III_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes III of Cappadocia">Ariarathes III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_IV_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia">Ariarathes IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_V_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes V of Cappadocia">Ariarathes V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orophernes_of_Cappadocia" title="Orophernes of Cappadocia">Orophernes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_VI_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia">Ariarathes VI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_VII_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes VII of Cappadocia">Ariarathes VII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_VIII_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes VIII of Cappadocia">Ariarathes VIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_IX_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia">Ariarathes IX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariobarzanes_I_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia">Ariobarzanes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariobarzanes_II_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia">Ariobarzanes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariobarzanes_III_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariobarzanes III of Cappadocia">Ariobarzanes III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_X_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes X of Cappadocia">Ariarathes X</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archelaus_of_Cappadocia" title="Archelaus of Cappadocia">Archelaus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Bosporan_Kingdom" 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