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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy - Mayor, Adrienne
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A new account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman ...

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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy 2011, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691150260

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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy 2009, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691126838

Hardcover