Mithridates

Family: Pontic · Role: king · First appears: Julius Caesar 4

Life events

Julius Caesar intervened against Mithridates by driving his governor from the province and securing wavering cities.(Julius Caesar 4 · 📍 Asia)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “At that time Mithridates was ravaging the neighbouring districts, and on Caesar’s arrival at Rhodes, that he might not appear to lie idle while danger threatened the allies of Rome, he passed over into Asia, and having collected some auxiliary forces, and driven the king’s governor out of the province, retained in their allegiance the cities which were wavering, and ready to revolt.”

enemies with Julius Caesar (Caesar acted militarily against Mithridates's forces.) “At that time Mithridates was ravaging the neighbouring districts, and on Caesar’s arrival at Rhodes, that he might not appear to lie idle while danger threatened the allies of Rome, he passed over into Asia, and having collected some auxiliary forces, and driven the king’s governor out of the province, retained in their allegiance the cities which were wavering, and ready to revolt.”

younger kin: Pharnaces “This prince, who was son of the great Mithridates, had seized the opportunity which the distraction of the times offered for making war upon his neighbours, and his insolence and fierceness had grown with his success.”
child: Pharnaces “This prince, who was son of the great Mithridates, had seized the opportunity which the distraction of the times offered for making war upon his neighbours, and his insolence and fierceness had grown with his success.”

enemies with Nero “though, in a poem of his, he had reflected upon Mithridates for that innovation.”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.