The Poison King the life and legend of Mithradates, Rome's deadliest enemy
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...
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press
2010
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991008889659708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Kill them all, and let the gods sort them out
- A savior is born in a castle by the sea
- Education of a young hero
- The lost boys
- Return of the king
- Storm clouds
- Victory
- Terror
- Battle for Greece
- Killers' kiss
- Living like a king
- Falling star
- Renegade kings
- End game
- In the tower
- Appendix 1. Mythic hero or deviant personality?
- Appendix 2. Mithradates' afterlife in the arts and popular culture
