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  Mithridates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mithridates I of Parthia (171 - 138 BC)
Mithridates III of Parthia (58 - 57 BC)
Mithridates VI of Pontus (120 - 63 BC)
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1095 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The kings of Pontus claimed to be lineally de­scended from one of the seven Persians who had conspired against the Magi, and who was subse­quently established by Dareius Hystaspes in the government of the countries bordering on the Euxine Sea, (Polyb.
Mithridates, however, received from Demetrius timely notice of his father's intentions, and fled with a few followers to Paphlagonia, where he occupied a strong fortress, called Cimiata, and being joined by numerous bodies of troops from different quarters, gradually extended his dominion over the neighbouring
mithridates IV., grandson of the preced­ing, was the son and successor of Ariobarzanes III.
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 Mithridates. Who is Mithridates? What is Mithridates? Where is Mithridates? Definition of Mithridates. Meaning of ...
The earliest are Mithradates, the eunuch who helped Artabanus to assassinate Xerxes I and the Mithradates who fought first with Cyrus the Younger and after his death with Artaxerxes against the Greeks, and is the ancestor of the kings of Pontus.
Mithridates I of Parthia (171 - 137 BC)
After legends about Mithridates VI of Pontus, several books containing samples of various languages bore the title Mithridates and the practice of having underdoses of poison aiming to gain immunity is known as mithridatism.
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 Mithridates - Wikipedia NL
Mithridates is de naam van een aantal vorsten in de Oudheid.
Mithridates van Armenie 36 - 51, zoon van Mithridates van Iberia, door Tiberius gesteund in zijn poging de troon van Armenie te verwerven.
Mithridates van Bosporus 33 - 45, verslagen door Romeinen, verbleef daarna in Rome tot hij in 69 door Galba ter dood werd gebracht.
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 CHAPTER THREE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mithridates V ignored the former treaties that his father had made with Rome and began his conquest of Phrygia, Paphlagonia, Cappadocia, and Galatia, and even annexed the island of Crete.
Mithridates the Great was born in the Pontic palace of Sinop in 132 B.C. Not long after his father was assassinated, he feared that he too would be murdered and fled to live in the interior of Pontus.
By 87 B.C., Sinop was capitol of an empire conquered by Mithridates from the Euphrates River to the Gulf of Corinth.
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 Mithradates VI of Pontus. Who is Mithradates VI of Pontus? What is Mithradates VI of Pontus? Where is Mithradates VI of ...
Mithridates was the son of Mithridates V of Pontus, called Euergetes.
Two curious legends are told of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
Housman alludes to this practice, also known as mithridatism, in the poem "Terence, this is stupid stuff" in A Shropshire Lad [ 2 ].
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 Mithridates VI and Rome
Mithridates VI Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus, was by ancestry a Persian noble.
His successor, Mithridates V Euergetes, aided Rome in the third Punic war (149-146) and against the rebellion of Aristonicus in Pergamum (132-129).
Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysus escaped from his mother's tutelage and went into hiding, returning after a number of years to take over Sinope (the capital).
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 Anatolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mithridates V bought Phrygia from the Roman governor under Mithridates VI the Great, Pontus expanded into neighbouring countries (Cappadocia, Galatia) and made an alliance with Tigranes of Armenia.
This was one of the wilder Anatolian kingdoms, inland from Bithynia.
The kingdoms of Syria to the south and Pontus to the north both wanted control of this fertile kingdom and it was ruled by Pontic puppet kings set up by Mithridates VI of Pontus (who married the daughter of a Cappadocian noble, Gordius) around 100 BC.
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 Encyclopedia: Mithridates VI of Pontus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pontus was a name applied in ancient times to extensive tracts of country in the northeast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordering on the Euxine (Black Sea), which was often called simply Pontos (the Main), by the Greeks.
Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey.
The Second Mithridatic War was fought between the old King Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus (consul in 74 BC).
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 Mithridates VI of Pontus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Silver coin depicting Mithradates VI Mithridates VI of Pontus, ( 132 BC - 63 BC), called Eupator Dionysius, was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome 's most formidable and successful enemies.
The demise of Mithridates VI is detailed in the play Mithridates (1673) by Jean Racine.
This play was the basis for many 18th century operas including one of Mozart's earliest, known most commonly by its Italian name, Mitridate, re di Ponto (1770).
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 Sinope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mithridates II and his son Pharnaces I made Sinope and its dependencies in 183 BC and made it the capital of the kingdom of Pontus.
Mithridates V Philopator, who came to the throne in 169 BC erected many fine buildings in the city and the city thrived.
Mithridates VI Eupator, Rome’s arch-enemy was born in Sinope in 135BC.
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 Pontus [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pontus was a name applied in ancient times to extensive tracts of country in the northeast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordering on the Euxine ( Black Sea The Black Sea (known as the Euxine Sea in the antiquity) is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor.
Under the last king, Mithradates Eupator Mithridates VI of Pontus, (132 BC- 63 BC), called Eupator Dionysius, was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies.
In pagan times the city, which was situated on the Seylax, belonged to priests, equal in dignity to the princes of Pontus, lords of the territory.
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 74 BC [Definition]
Roman forces under Lucius Lucullus defeat the forces of Mithridates VI Mithridates VI of Pontus, (132 BC- 63 BC), called Eupator Dionysius, was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies.
Nicomedes III Nicomedes III, known as Philopator, was the king of Bithynia, from 91 to 74 BC.
His brother Socrates, assisted by Mithridates VI of Pontus, drove him out, but he was reinstated by the Romans.
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 Cyzicus Guides, Tutorials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cyzicus was an ancient town of Mysia in Asia Minor, situated on the shoreward side of the present peninsula of Kapu-Dagh (Arctonnesus), which is said to have been originally an island in the Sea of Marmora, and to have been artificially connected with the mainland in historic times.
Cyzicus was held for the Romans against Mithradates Mithridates VI of Pontus ( 132 BC- 63 BC), called Eupator Dionysius was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies.
Mithridates spent much in 74 BC till the siege was raised by Lucullus Lucius Licinius Lucullus was a consul of ancient Rome, a supporter of Sulla and victor in the East.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - mithridate
Mithridates VI Eupator (132?-63 bc), king of Pontus, in what is now northeastern Turkey.
Pontus (district), ancient district in northeastern Asia Minor (in what is now Turkey) on the Black Sea, or Pontus Euxinus, from which it received...
From 1769 to 1773, Mozart made three extended journeys to Italy with his father, during which he was remarkably productive and wrote not only...
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 Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus,
Mithridates VI was surnamed Eupator and Dionysus to distinguish him from his father, Mithridates V Euergetes, who been king of Pontus (northern Turkey) between 152/151 and 120.
The king of Pontus surrendered a part of his fleet, evacuated all conquered territories, and was forced to pay a moderate indemnity of a mere 2,000 talents.
Mithridates was again forced to flee to Armenia, but this time, his ally was unable to help him.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Festus
Pontus, after Mithridates, King of Pontus, had been conquered by Pompey, received the form of a province.
Mithridates, with his wife and two companions, fled to the Bosphorus and when, in desperation of his affairs, he drank poison, and when the poison.s strength did not prove sufficient, he commanded that he be run through with a sword by one of his own soldiers.
Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysus, III.3; XI.3,4; XV.3; XVI.1.
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 Mithridates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was at Ephesus in 88 BC that Mithridates (brief bio #2) VI, King of Pontus (see story & map) 120-63 BC, signed the decree ordering the massacre of all Romans and Italians in Asia, down to the last woman and child.
His aim was to extend his rule from Pontus on the southern shore of the Euxine (Black) Sea, to include the countries all around the Euxine, all of Asia Minor (now Turkey) and to extend his power into Europe.
You could summarize his life by saying that Mithridates was a brilliant, brutal, energetic man, full of great potential, who had the bad luck to be born at a time when the Hellenistic world was winding down for good.
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 Tree: Mithridates V EUERGETES (King) of PONTUS
Children: Laodice of PONTUS ; Mithridates VI `the Great' (King) of PONTUS
-- Laodice (Laodike) III (IV) of PONTUS +
His (poss.) Grandchildren: Laodice of CAPPADOCIA ; Pharnaces II of PONTUS ; daughter of Mithridates VI ; Cleopatra of PONTUS ; Berenice
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 Judea Roman Bce Province Kingdom Herod Rebellion Ancient Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After the defeat of Mithridates VI of Pontus Mithridates VI of Pontus ( 132 BC- 63 BC), called Eupator Dionysius was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies.
Mithridates spent much, general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus This article refers to the Roman General.
However, Pompey is also the nickname of the city of Portsmouth in Hampshire, England, and also of its principal football club, Portsmouth F. Pompey is not to be confused with the Roman city of Pompeii.
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 Nicomedes III of Bithynia Definition / Nicomedes III of Bithynia Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His brother Socrates, assisted by Mithridates VI of Pontus Mithridates VI of Pontus, (132 BC- 63 BC), named Eupator Dionysius, was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies.
Mithridates was the son of Mithridates V of Pontus, named Euergetes.
He was again expelled by Mithradates, who defeated him on the river Amneus (or Amnias) in Paphlagonia Paphlagonia was an ancient area on the northern central Black Sea coast of Anatolia, situated between Bithynia and Pontus, separated from Galatia by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus.
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 generation 15 ('stamoudgrootouders')
Mithridates [Mithridata, Meherdates], king of Armenia circa 72 — 76, born circa 45, died circa 76, married:
Abgar V Oukhama, king of Osrhoene —4 to 7 and 13-50, born —25, died 50, married:
Mithridates I Callinicus, king of Commagene circa 96—70/69, died -63, married:
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 Dio Cassius Dioscoreales Diogo Cão Diode Diocletian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dio Cassius Cocceianus ( 155 —after 229), was the son of Cassius Apronianus, a Roman senator, and born at Nicaea in Bithynia.
Initially serving in the Social War under S against Mithridates Mithridates VI of Pontus ( 132 BC- 63 BC), called Eupator Dionysius was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies.
Mithridates spent much, and of the thirty-sixth, on the war with the pirates and the expedition of Pompey against the king of Pontus.
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 Soma Footnotes
The naturalist V. Hehn, Cultivated Plants and Domesticated Animals in their Migration from Asia to Europe (Amsterdam, 1976; originally published in 1885), suggested that both the vine and cannabis, among a number of other plants, may have originated in or close to the area of our interest.
It is well attested that Mithridates was the only person to speak twenty-two languages, and that he never addressed any of his subject peoples through an interpreter during all fifty-six years of his reign.
Mithridates, with his breadth of intellect, was especially interested in medicine and amassed detailed knowledge from all his subjects, who covered a substantial part of the world.
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 Mithridates
The heavy hand of Roman taxation allowed Mithridates, with a fleet of ships, to 'conquer' the Ionian coast almost without resistance.
While Rome reeled from the disaster, Mithridates went on to occupy Greece as well.
This third and final war was headed by Pompey, and Mithridates was pushed past his homeland into the Crimea.
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 generation 15 ('stamoudgrootouders')
Mithridates I Koudjide Kartham [Mihrdat], king of Iberia circa 1 to 30, married:
Mithridates V [VI] Eupator Dionysus, king of Pontus 120-63, assassinated —63
Mithridates I, king of Pontus 302-266, the nephew or cousin of Mithridates of Cius
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 Rome 120-91 B.C.: Militarization and the Rise of Marius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
120 B.C. : Mithridates V of Pontus assassinated; Mithridates VI coopted as co-regent, flees the country.
103 B.C. : Mithridates VI of Pontus and Nicomedes II of Bithynia partition Paphlagonia, occupy Galatia.
99 B.C. : Mithridates VI partitions eastern Anatolia with Nicomedes III of Bithynia.
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 The Amazons: Chapter V: Modern Amazons of the Caucasus
FROM age to age memories of the Amazons persistently clung to the Pontus, to the whole of the Caucasian range of mountains and the regions immediately beyond, or those coming within their influence.
When Mithridates V., King of Pontus, made war on the Roman colonies in Asia Minor, between 100 and 98 B.C., he had in his vast army strong bodies of auxiliaries from Scythia and Sarmatia, who were looked upon as barbarians both by friend and foe.
In any case, the long persistence of a word in a special locality, varying slightly though it does, and applying to a particular race or to a type of women, cannot lightly be set aside.
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 Mithridates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ancient king of Pontus who expanded his kingdom by defeating the Romans but was later driven out by Pompey (132-63 BC).
Date "Mithridates" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607.
Mithridates : de differentiis linguarum tum veterum tum quae hodie apud diversas nationes in toto orbe terrarum in usu sunt ( reference)
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