Mithradates VI Eupator (the last word means “of noble father”) was a Renaissance man 1500 years before the Renaissance. Born in 135 BCE, he ruled as the king of Pontus, a small province on the ...

Madsen (University of Southern Denmark), use the case of Pontus, in northern Anatolia ... Acquired for Rome in 66 B.C. following the defeat of Mithridates the Great, Pompey the Great annexed much of ...