Illustrations
Genealogical Chart
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Pontos to 120 BC
1: Pontos
2: The Founder
3: The Kingdom Becomes an Independent State
4: The Arrival of the Romans
5: The Collapse of Pergamon
Part 2: The Last Generation of the Kingdom
6: The Rise of Mithridates VI
7: The Early Expansion of the Kingdom of Mithridates VI
8: The Gathering Storm
9: The Eruption of Hostilities
10: The Aftermath of the First War
11. Lucullus and Mithridates VI
12. The Royal Court
13: The End of the Mithridatic Kingdom
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
List of Passages Cited
Index
Duane W. Roller is Professor Emeritus of Classics at The Ohio State University and the author of numerous books, including Cleopatra: A Biography, Cleopatra's Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era, and Ancient Geography
"With a lucid and captivating style, Duane Roller narrates the long
career of Mithridates the Great, one of Rome's most stubborn
antagonists, and recounts the larger dynastic and historical
context of his reign." -- Jeffrey Benecker, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
"Duane Roller has deployed his enormous experience in ancient
history and geography to illuminate the fascinating life and
extraordinary ambitions of Mithridates the Great. This book reveals
the causes, events, and significance of a king who built a Black
Sea empire to rival late Republican Rome. His bloody adventures
ended in torment and suicide, but his memory lived on among Romans
and their heirs, in art, history, and tragic drama. Throughout,
amongst so
much that is extraordinary, Roller offers a Mithridates who remains
convincingly human." -- David Braund, University of Exeter
"The kingdom of Pontos creatively integrated Persian and Greek
political traditions and was Rome's last rival for domination of
the eastern Mediterranean, but the last history of this remarkable
state was published in 1879. Duane Roller's thoroughly researched
and lucidly written book ably provides readers with a long-overdue,
updated narrative." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State
University, Los Angeles
"Roller...has a knack for combing through hard-to-find subjects. He
puts that method to use here in assembling an accessible narrative
of the early kingdom and of its demise under Mithridates, whose
life and death fully occupies half the book." --History Today
"With his vivid personality and long reign, Mithridates is the
stand-out character of 'Empire of the Black Sea,' a historical
survey of the Pontic kingdom by the classicists Duane W. Roller"
--Wall Street Journal
"Roller resurrects much more than a single king in his pioneering
history, the first ever English-language analysis of the entire
Mithridates dynasty." --Nature
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