The poison king : the life and legend of Mithridates, Rome's deadliest enemy
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The poison king : the life and legend of Mithridates, Rome's deadliest enemy
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- The poison king : the life and legend of Mithridates, Rome's deadliest enemy
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- the life and legend of Mithridates, Rome's deadliest enemy
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- Adrienne Mayor
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- Biographie
- Biography
- Black Sea Region
- Black Sea Region -- History, Military
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Ancient | General
- History
- Kings and rulers
- Mediterranean Region
- Mediterranean Region -- History, Military
- Mediterranean Region -- Pontus
- Military history
- 88-63 B.C
- Mithridates, VI Eupator, King of Pontus, approximately 132 B.C.-63 B.C
- Mithridates, VI Eupator, King of Pontus, approximately 132 B.C.-63 B.C
- Mithridatic Wars (Rome : 88-63 B.C.)
- Poisoning -- Political aspects -- Rome -- History
- Pontus -- History
- Pontus -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
- Rome (Empire)
- Rome -- History -- Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C
- Mithridates (Pontisches Reich, König, VI.)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC. In this richly illustrated book--the first biography of Mithradates in fifty years--Adrienne Mayor combines a storyteller's gifts with th
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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