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	Mithridates VI of Pontus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 was the son of Mithridates V of Pontus, called Euergetes.
		The second legend is that Mithridates sought to harden himself against poisoning by taking increasing sub-lethal doses of the poisons he knew of until he was able to tolerate lethal doses.
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	Eupatorium capillifolium page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mithridates VI was the son of Mithridates V of Pontus (called Euergetes).
		Mithridates VI had many brothers, whom he killed to clear his path to the throne, and a sister, whom he married.
		Mithridates tried to poison himself instead of being captured but was unsuccessful becasue he had become tolerant of all the known poisons of his day.
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	Mithridates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mithridates of Persia, a son-in-law of Darius III
		Mithridates of Armenia (AD Also, the word mithridates was once synonymous with antidote, and mithridatism meant the practice of taking repeated low doses of a poison with the intent of building immunity to it.
		These meanings were inspired by legends about Mithridates VI of Pontus.
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	Jere's Ars Magica Saga: Mithradites VI Eupator
		Mithridates defeated Marcus Aurelius Cotta at Chalcedon in seventy-four but was expelled from his own kingdom by Lucullus, and took refuge with his son-in-law Tigranes, king of Armenia.
		Mithridates fled to Panticapaeum (modern Kerch in the Crimea), and was planning a new campaign when his troops revolted.
		It is interesting to note that certain of Mithridates' officers were in command of the Cilician pirates, who according to Plutarch (Life of Pompey, 24, 7), were the first to celebrate the mysteries of Mithras.
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	Ancient History Sourcebook: Mithridates & The Roman Conquests in the East, 90-61 BCE
		Mithridates and The Roman Conquests in the East, 90-61 BCE
		In conquering Mithridates the Romans, almost against their wish, were forced to conquer most of the nearer Orient---especially all of Asia Minor and Syria---and to come face to face with Parthia.
		Such and so diversified was this one war against Mithridates, but in the end it brought the greatest gain to the Romans; for it pushed the boundaries of their dominion from the setting of the sun to the river Euphrates.
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	Station Information - Mithridates
		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 VI of Pontus (120 - 63 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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	Encyclopedia: Mithridates VI of Pontus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The First Mithridatic War was fought between the Roman Republic and Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysius, the king of Pontus.
		The Second Mithridatic War (83-82 BCE) was fought between King Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman general Lucius Murena At the end of the First Mithridatic War, Sulla had left Mithridates in control of his kingdom of Pontus.
		Pompey had defeated Mithridates VI in 64 BC and gained control of much of Asia Minor, but Pharnaces II attempted to take advantage of the Roman civil war to retake...
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		Charles VI Charles VI, 1685-1740, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40), king of Bohemia (1711-40) and, as Charles III, king of Hungary (1712-40); brother and successor of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I. Charles was the last Holy Roman emperor of the direct Hapsburg line.
		Muhammad VI Muhammad VI or Mehmet VI, 1861-1926, last Ottoman sultan (1918-22), brother and successor of Muhammad V. He became sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) near the end of World War I and soon capitulated to the Allies, who occupied Constantinople and sought to rule through him what remained of Turkey.
		When his grandfather, Charles VI of France, died, Henry was proclaimed king of France by the English, in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Troyes (1420).
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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 conflict with Rome that was to last for the rest of Mithridates' life became inevitable in 94, when Nicomedes III of Bithynia died and was succeeded by Nicomedes IV Philopator.
		Mithridates was again forced to flee to Armenia, but this time, his ally was unable to help him.
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		Mithridates' wichtigster Bundesgenosse war in den folgenden Jahren sein Schwiegersohn Tigranes von Armenien.
		Mithridates, durch neuen Friedensvertrag mit Rom abgesichert, baute seine Machststellung in Kleinasien systematisch aus, verstärkte Heer und Flotte und fiel im Jahre 74 in Bithynien ein, das der kinderlose König Nikomedes III.
		Pompeius enttäuschte seine Anhänger nicht: Mithridates wurde aus Pontus vertrieben, Armenien zum römischen Vasallenstaat gemacht.
	www.thomas-golnik.de /orbis/realien/mithrid.html (644 words)

	Mithridatum and the death of Mithridates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Mithridates was defeated by Pompey, a notebook was found in the king's own hand with a prescription for an antidote which, modestly, consisted of only two dried walnuts, two figs, and twenty leaves of rue pounded together with a pinch of salt (XXIII.149).
		"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.
		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.
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	Mithridates -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mithradates, a (A man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction) eunuch who helped (Click link for more info and facts about Artabanus) Artabanus to assassinate (King of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC)) Xerxes I.
		Also, the word mithridates was once synonymous with (A remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison) antidote, and mithridatism meant the practice of taking repeated low doses of a (Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism) poison with the intent of building immunity to it.
		These meanings were inspired by legends about (Click link for more info and facts about Mithridates VI of Pontus) Mithridates VI of Pontus.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mi/Mithridates.htm (305 words)

	Bust of Mithridates VI-King of Pontus (132 - 63 BC) - Beaverland Historica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		King Mithridates of Pontus (located in the north-east of Asia Minor) decided to take advantage of Rome’s disorder and marched his troops into Roman territory.
		Mithridates wanted to make sure the Asians stuck with him so he had to make them do something.
		Mithridates ordered the Asians to massacre all the Roman civilians in the area (about 80,000 people).
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	Mithridates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus by B.C. McGing (Mnemosyne Ser.: Suppl.89)
		Portrait head of Mithradates VI Eupator of Pontus as Herakles (from Perseus Project).
		Your name of Mithridates has created a most expressive nature, idealistic and inspirational, driven with a strong inner urge to be of service in some way that would uplift humanity as a whole.
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	Mithridates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Mithridates styled himself as the god Dionysus and liberator of Greeks against foreign opressors.
		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.
	www.jimuary.com /2002%20Turkey/Loc%20Mithridates.html (531 words)

	Third Mithridatic War
		The third Roman war against Mithridates VI, King of Pontus, was really a continuation of the second.
		Mithridates had vast wealth from his own campaigns at his disposal, but many years of continuous war had taken its toll.
		Mithridates was supposed to have had a prodigious memory.
	www.unrv.com /roman-republic/third-mithridatic-war.php (555 words)

	The Abraham Cowley Text and Image Archive: University of Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mithridates VI, King of Pontus (120-63 BC), AR tetradrachm in the name of Alexander the Great.
		This coin was probably struck 83-82 BC to help finance the Second Mithridatic War, one in which Mithridates of Pontus again took on Rome.
		As a tactical hobby Mithridates not only learned numerous languages--22 by one count--but moreover grew famously expert in poisons, as Cowley remarks; having gained an immunity to every known poison, he at last had no choice but to call in a soldier to stab him.
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	Mithridatic War
		Mithridates VI of Pontus came to power in the Hellenized region of Asia Minor circa 121 and 120 BC.
		In the heat of the social war Rome was unable to interfere directly with military force, and it seems that Aquillius convinced Nicomedes to wage war on Pontus.
		Mithridates’ original attempt to negotiate with diplomacy ended in rebuttal by Aquillius and he had little choice but to respond.
	www.unrv.com /empire/mithridatic-war.php (778 words)

	LEGIO VI VICTRIX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The veterans of legio VI were settled in Arelate (Arles) after the conclusion of this war.
		The names of the 2 legions that sprang off from it, the legio VI Ferrata (The Iron) and legio VI Victrix (The Victorious) are a testimony to the glory of this legion of Cesar’s.
		No incident had been reported in which the legio VI served outside of Spain during the time it had been station there, in fact, the identification of this legion with Spain appeared to be so strong that it was also called legio VI Hispana.
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	Find in a Library: The foreign policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus
		The foreign policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus
		Subjects: Mithridates -- VI Eupator, -- King of Pontus, -- ca.
		Mithridate -- VI, -- roi du Pont, -- ca 132-63 av.
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	Mithridatum Drug Jar (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This terracotta drug jar, one of a pair, was made to contain a specific preparation: antidotum methridaticum, named for King Mithridates VI, who invented the medicine and whose life is shown in scenes that decorate the jar.
		A relief on one side of the jar shows Mithridates being given either his daily antidote or the ineffectual-suicide poison.
		On the front of the vessel, a relief illustrates the death of Mithridates at the hand of his guard.
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	Mithridates VI
		Mithridates VI Definition: Mithridates VI Mithridates VI Noun
		Crosswords: Mithridates VI English words defined with "Mithridates VI": Pontus.
		The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus (Mnemosyne Ser.: Suppl.89) (reference)
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Mi/Mithridates+VI.html (730 words)

	Mithridates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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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	Hist5
		A third war broke out when Nicomedes III, the king of Bithynia (to the east of Pontus) bequeathed his kingdom to Romans, who organized it into a province; Mithridates VI Eupator, the king of Pontus, however, also coveted the territory, and began a campaign to take control of the former kingdom of Bithynia.
		Before he replaced Lucullus as general in charge of waging war against Mithridates, Pompey was assigned the task in ridding the Mediterranean of pirates, which he succeeded in dong in 67 BCE.
		The Third Mithridatic War between Rome and the Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus, breaks out when Nicomedes III, the king of Bithynia (to the east of Pontus) bequeathed his kingdom to Romans; Mithridates plans to expand his own kingdom by the incorporation of Bithynia.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - mithridate
		Mithridates VI Eupator (132?-63 bc), king of Pontus, in what is now northeastern Turkey.
		In about 121 bc he succeeded his father, Mithridates V, and...
		Pontus (district), ancient district in northeastern Asia Minor (in what is now Turkey) on the Black Sea, or Pontus Euxinus, from which it received...
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	Ptolemy XII
		Ptolemy XI Finally, if one accepts that Ptolemy XII and his brother had spent time at the court of Mithridates VI, it is difficult to explain how they came to be there on Bloedow's chronology.
		The advantages to Mithridates are clear: had the marriages occurred, they would have reinforced his influence over them, just as the marriages of his daughters to the kings of Armenia and Cappadocia (in c.
		Mithridates held no position or (known) influence in Egypt, and there is no indication, for example, that the princes received Pontic money or troops, nor is there any clear reason why they should have asked for them.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_xii.htm (8792 words)

	Mithradates VI and Rome
		Mithradates VI Mithradates VI Eupator, king of Pontus, was by ancestry a Persian noble.
		His son-in-law Ariarathes VI was king of Cappadocia.
		Mithradates 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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