1011:. Mandates were assigned to the consuls, who, as the name implies, must perform them on penalty for refusal or failure of death. Similarly, only the Senate could declare the termination of a mandate, which is why Livy does not speak of three Mithridatic Wars. Sulla reached an agreement with Mithridates but it was never accepted by the Senate. Interim peace was never anything more than a gentleman's agreement. Tiring of this political game the ad hoc peace party bypassed the Senate, not only preempting the mandate but also giving to Pompey the power himself to declare it at an end. It ended automatically, however, with the death of Mithridates in 63 BC, the mission being complete.
761:, where Cotta was positioned with his navy. The Roman defenders sallied out of their defenses to fight the Pontic force, however, the Pontic army outnumbered the Roman one forcing them to withdraw into the city, with at least 3,000 soldiers killed. After this, Mithridates launched a raid on the harbor, destroying four ships and capturing the other 60, several thousand more Roman soldiers died in the fighting before Mithridates left Chalcedon. Cotta's force was reduced to a fraction of what it once was, giving Mithridates impunity to take the nearby cities of
998:, "Gaius Manilius, Tribune of the People, carried the law despite the great indignation of the nobility that the Mithridatic War be mandated to Pompey". The "nobility" are the Senate, who usually had the privilege of mandates. There is a possible pun on "great", as Pompey had received the title of "The Great" in the service of Sulla, the original recipient of the mandate. Sulla was deceased; Lucullus held the mandate in his place. This is an intervention by the tribune in the legal business of the Senate. Now it was the indignation that was great.
967:(59 BC – AD 17), which consisted of 142 books written between 27 and 9 BC, dated by internal events: he mentions Augustus, who did not receive the title until 27 BC, and the last event mentioned is the death of Drusus, 9 BC. Livy was a close friend of Augustus, to whom he read his work by parts, which means that he had access to records and writings at Rome. He worked mainly in retreat at Naples. Livy was born a few years after the last Mithridatic War, and grew up in the Late Republic. His location at
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916:, rebelled against him with the support of a weary populace, Mithridates killed himself. Pharnaces sent his father's body to Pompey who granted him the Crimean lands he still held, also establishing him as a Roman ally. The Anatolian and Syrian lands that were occupied would be incorporated as Roman provinces, while Armenia and Judea would become allied client kingdoms allied to Rome. Pompey's successes in the war further propelled his political career as the general, granting him a
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738:(66–63 BCE). Several states were drawn into the war through alliances on both Roman and Pontic sides, like the Kingdom of Armenia on Mithridates's side. The war started when the King of Bithynia, an allied client state of Rome, died in 74 BCE and granted his kingdom to Rome in his will, Mithridates launched an invasion as this would mean Rome only gained more influence in Asia Minor. Mithridates launched the invasion around the time that
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1801:"History" here means the work of the classical historians, men who set as their targets a general history of events, rather than science, philosophy or creative literature. Some historians wrote contemporaneously with the events, but their work has not survived. Fragments of others survive. This section is for more extensive survivals.
601:, where Aristion convinced its citizens to revolt and declare him Tyrant of Athens. Mithridates also sent Archelaus, one of his generals, with a sizeable Pontic force to aid Aristion against the Romans. The city revolted against Roman rule with support from Mithridates with several other cities joining Athens. Aristion sent
671:. It stipulated that the Kingdoms of Bithynia and Cappadocia would be restored to the Roman-supported kings, but Mithridates would maintain his own kingdom of Pontus. After ending the war, Sulla quickly withdrew back to Rome as a power struggle was developing into a civil war between factions within the senate.
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In the summer of 89 BCE, Mithridates sent an army lead into
Cappadocia to remove the Roman-appointed Ariobarzanes the I and occupy the kingdom. This military action went against what the Aquilian Legation had enforced and was used as justification for war against Mithridates and Pontus, beginning war
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Cappadocia to and moved to Bithynia where he defeated Nicomedes the IV, also occupying the kingdom of Bithynia. Following this, Roman forces in the region marshalled an army to force Mithridates back under the direction of Manius Aquillius who was
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Mithridates hadn't broken the treaty they had agreed upon years earlier. Peace was established between Pontus and Rome by 81 BCE after which Murena was recalled from Anatolia back to Rome. This peace continued until 74 BCE
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Kingdom of Pontus after his attack on Comana, his advance unopposed by Mithridates's forces. Mithridates sent an ambassador to Murena to stop the conflict because of the peace established by the treaty of Dardanos, Murena replied that there was no treaty as Sulla
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in 87 BCE, before marching on Athens which was the leader of the revolt in Greece. In the summer of that year he besieged Athens; the siege lasted until early 86 when Roman forces broke through the defenses to storm Athens. Aristion and some of his followers retreated into the
Acropolis where they
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Armenia and came to terms with Tigranes, making Armenia an allied state of Rome. By 64 BCE, Pompey had established a naval blockade of Bosporan Crimea to wear down Mithridates, before he marched south into Syria where Armenia held lands, he
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Republic faded from general memory, the
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kept him out of the Civil Wars. He went to the big city perhaps to work on his project. Its nature sparked the interest of the emperor immediately (he had eyes and ears everywhere), who made it a point to be Octavian, not Augustus, to the circle of his friends (he often found duty tedious and
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River in central Pontus by the end of the year. Pompey defeat Mithridates, inflicting at least 10,000 casualties on the Pontic side and causing Mithridates to flee to Colchis. Mithridates crossed the Black Sea in the following year, 65 BCE, to the Crimean lands that his eldest son,
683:(83–81 BCE) began when Roman forces attacked the Kingdom of Pontus, reigniting conflict between Rome and Mithridates. This ended the peace that the previous Treaty of Dardanos in 85 BCE which ended the First Mithridatic War three years earlier. The Roman forces were commanded by
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resisted Mithridates's advance, forcing him to besiege it in 73 BCE. The city held out until Lucullus's arrival with reinforcements that counter-sieged the Pontic army. Mithridates sent a detachment away with the sick and wounded but they were ambushed by the Romans at the
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Handed at first to the consuls, it would not end until the death of Mithridates or the declaration by the Senate that it was at an end. As there were no intermissions in the warrant until the death of Mithridates in 63 BC, there was officially only one Mithridatic
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The Mithridatic Wars resulted from Mithridates consolidating his neighboring kingdoms into his realm which was opposed by Rome. Mithridates incorporated the Kingdom of Cappadocia by marrying his sister to its king before killing him and installing his young nephew,
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664:. Archelaus' force outnumbered the Roman once again, but the Roman force emerged victorious. Archelaus managed to flee the battlefield, returning to Mithridates. Mithridates did not launch another invasion of Greece and withdrew his forces back to Anatolia.
545:, a Cappadocian nobleman, also made his case against Ariarathes the IX and was selected as the senate-approved king of Cappadocia. A senatorial legation was dispatched to head east to supplant the Mithridates-backed kings for Roman-favored ones.
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808:. Cotta was tasked with retaking the city while Lucullus would march through the Galatian highlands into Pontus. Cotta began the siege of Heraclea Pontic in 73 BCE; it took two years until the city fell to the Romans in 71 BCE.
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which saw the systematic killing of Roman and Latin-speaking people in these provinces to remove any Roman influences from his conquered lands. The death toll of these massacres ranged from 80,000 and above.
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during the course of the wars, who initiated the hostilities with Rome. Mithridates led the Pontic forces in every war. The Romans were led by various generals and consuls throughout the wars, namely
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Appian of Alexandria (c. 95 – c. AD 165) also covers the Mithridatic Wars in the Foreign Wars section of his Roman History. His account offers the most in depth view of all three conflicts.
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656:, with reinforcements for Archelaus. The Pontic force outnumbered the Roman one, however, the Romans won the battle, capturing Taxiles and forcing Archelaus to flee with the survivors to
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During the spring of 67 BCE, while Lucullus was still at Nisibis, Mithridates returned to Pontus and fought the Roman forces that were still in the region. Legate
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1403:Dictionary of battles and sieges
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1821:Harvard University Press
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1534:T. Robert S. Broughton,
1275:Epitome of Roman History
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2050:Mayor, Adrienne. 2010.
2031:Aarhus University Press
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2481:Roman Empire
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2827:Lyttian War
2802:Syrian Wars
2797:Pyrrhic War
2766:Hellenistic
2746:Foreign War
2733:Social War
2479:Wars of the
2427:Gallic Wars
2356:Achaean War
2243:Pyrrhic War
2193:Wars of the
1834:Florus 2018
1719:40; Mayor,
1230:24; Mayor,
1008:casus belli
984:Lex Manilia
949:, Book II.
704:Halys River
648:in central
329:Neoptolemus
305:Mithridates
182:Territorial
2946:Categories
2862:Cretan War
2774:Lamian War
2695:Samian War
2499:Gothic War
2260:Punic Wars
2248:Social War
1921:2018-02-02
1872:2020-03-26
1779:. Attalus.
1616:Plutarch,
1595:Plutarch,
1573:Plutarch,
1320:Plutarch,
578:Social War
473:Cappadocia
99:March 2024
69:newspapers
36:references
2657:Classical
2093:Toronto:
1849:Classical
1836:, Book 40
1607:, 304–306
1495:, p. 112.
1333:Brennan,
1102:, pp. 2–4
977:Periochae
813:Galatians
791:Lampsacus
771:Nicomedia
767:Lampsacus
759:Chalcedon
495:Etymology
339:Dorylaeus
334:Arcathius
324:Archelaus
217:civil war
2781:Diadochi
2070:Historia
2020:Lucullus
2013:Historia
1971:Velleius
1939:Plutarch
1907:(2014).
1762:Appian,
1745:Appian,
1732:Appian,
1723:, p. 330
1711:Appian,
1698:Appian,
1646:Appian,
1504:Appian,
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1388:Appian,
1372:Appian,
1346:Appian,
1337:, p. 557
1311:, p. 190
1303:Appian,
1294:, p. 190
1273:Florus,
1247:, p. 174
1234:, p. 171
1222:Appian,
1213:, p. 185
1188:Florus,
1179:, p. 183
1171:Appian,
1158:Appian,
1111:Appian,
1085:Appian,
1048:See also
941:Velleius
903:Damascus
887:Machares
848:Artaxata
744:Hispania
639:Pergamon
595:Aristion
483:and the
477:Bithynia
344:Aristion
253:Pompeius
246:Lucullus
162:Location
157:88–63 BC
2904: (
2842: (
2614:Archaic
1844:Sources
1681:Mayor,
1428:Zarko,
1290:Mayor,
1256:Mayor,
1243:Mayor,
1205:Mayor,
1145:Mayor,
1124:Mayor,
918:triumph
899:Antioch
856:Nisibis
782:Cyzicus
775:Apameia
700:Gordius
658:Chalcis
654:Taxiles
650:Boeotia
524:Prelude
265:†
196:of Rome
184:changes
83:scholar
2910:Second
2856:Fourth
2848:Second
2415:Second
2381:Second
2307:Fourth
2297:Second
2270:Second
2110:about
1891:Florus
1856:Appian
1401:Tony,
1136:, p.13
1023:Appian
1015:Florus
992:Pompey
891:Crimea
832:Sinope
828:Amisus
817:Cabira
802:Lemnos
773:, and
763:Nicaea
736:Pompey
689:Comana
675:Second
622:Epirus
615:Apollo
599:Athens
464:, and
452:, the
410:Second
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174:Result
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2265:First
1766:, 113
1736:, 106
1702:, 102
1689:, 100
1555:, 14.
1525:, 29.
1196:17–18
1060:Notes
969:Padua
882:Lycus
722:Third
611:Delos
607:Delos
568:First
415:Third
405:First
239:Sulla
215:amid
90:JSTOR
76:books
1905:Livy
1813:Livy
1620:, 31
1577:, 13
1508:, 77
1478:, 8.
1461:, 8.
1392:, 65
1354:, 15
1324:, 14
1264:, 28
1162:, 14
1115:, 11
1089:, 10
1076:p. 1
965:Livy
953:Livy
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554:Asia
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506:War.
499:The
475:and
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154:Date
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