Mithridates VI Eupator (r. c. 120–63 BCE) ruled the Kingdom of Pontus on the Black Sea, and he lived like a man convinced the world was trying to kill him—because it probably was. Court politics in the Hellenistic age ran on assassinations, and later tradition claimed his own father died by poison. Whether every detail is true or not, the fear shaped him: Mithridates cultivated the image of a king who could not be quietly removed. He was a Hellenistic monarch in style—Greek language, Greek citie

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