Mithridates VI of Pontus
Ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus from 120 to 63 BC
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He fought Rome for three decades and nearly won. Mithridates VI controlled the Black Sea, overran Roman Asia, and orchestrated the massacre of tens of thousands of Romans and Italians in a single coordinated strike. It took their best generals — Sulla, Lucullus, Pompey — to finally corner him.
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After his father Mithridates V was assassinated, the teenage king ascended under his mother's regency until he overthrew her in 113 BC. He built Pontus into a regional power by subjugating Colchis and the Cimmerian Bosporus, but his westward push brought collision with Rome. In 89 BC he crushed Bithynia's invasion, swept into Roman Asia during the Social War, and rallied much of Greece — including Athens — to his banner as a champion of Hellenism. Sulla beat him back in the First Mithridatic War but cut a lenient peace to settle Rome's civil strife. A second war in 83 BC ended in another stale…
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