1/27/2024 0 Comments Mithridates v universal antidote![]() ![]() It soon became clear to Mithridates that Nicomedes was steering his country into an anti-Pontic alliance with the expanding Roman Republic. ![]() ![]() He contrived to partition Paphlagonia and Galatia with King Nicomedes III of Bithynia. The young king then turned his attention to Anatolia, where Roman power was on the rise. After several abortive attempts to invade the Crimea, the Scythians and the allied Rhoxolanoi suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Pontic general Diophantus and accepted Mithridates as their overlord. The most important centres of Crimea, Tauric Chersonesus and the Bosporan Kingdom readily surrendered their independence in return for Mithridates' promises to protect them against the Scythians, their ancient enemies. After he subjugated Colchis, the king of Pontus clashed for supremacy in the Pontic steppe with the Scythian King Palacus. Mithridates entertained ambitions of making his state the dominant power in the Black Sea and Anatolia. Map of the Kingdom of Pontus, Before the reign of Mithridates VI (dark purple), after his conquests (purple), his conquests in the first Mithridatic wars (pink), as well as Pontus' ally the Kingdom of Armenia (green). He married her to preserve the purity of their bloodline, and to co-rule over Pontus, to ensure the succession to his legitimate children, and to solidify his claim to the throne. ![]() Mithridates first married his younger sister Laodice, aged 16. Mithridates Chrestus may have died in prison from natural causes or was tried for treason and executed. Laodice VI died in prison of natural causes. He removed his mother and brother from the throne, imprisoning both, and became the sole ruler of Pontus. Mithridates emerged from hiding and returned to Pontus between 116 BC and 113 BC and was hailed King. During his mother’s regency, he escaped from his mother's plots against him, and went into hiding. 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. Mithridates and his younger brother were both under aged to rule and their mother retained all power as regent. In the will of Mithridates V, he left the Kingdom to the joint rule of Laodice VI, Mithridates and his younger brother, Mithridates Chrestus. Mithridates V was assassinated in about 120 BC in Sinope, poisoned by unknown persons at a lavish banquet which he held. His mother, Laodice VI, was a Seleucid Princess and the daughter of the Seleucid Monarchs Antiochus IV Epiphanes and his wife-sister Laodice IV. His father, Mithridates V, was a prince and the son of the former Pontic Monarchs Pharnaces I of Pontus and his wife-cousin Nysa. He was the first son and among the children born to Laodice VI and Mithridates V of Pontus (reigned 150–120 BC). Mithridates was born in the Pontic city of Sinope, and was raised in the Kingdom of Pontus. He claimed descent from Cyrus the Great, from the family of Darius the Great, the Regent Antipater and from the generals of Alexander the Great and later kings: Antigonus I Monophthalmus and Seleucus I Nicator. Mithridates was a prince of Persian and Greek ancestry. ![]()
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