The King Who Drank Poison Every Day to Fight Rome — Nobody Remembers Him

Mithridates VI of Pontus, the poison king who ordered the Asiatic Vespers and fought Rome for more than 25 years: the story of Rome's forgotten enemy. Sulla, Lucullus, Pompey, the Mithridatic Wars, Sinope, Ephesus, Athens, Chaeronea, Cyzicus and Crimea — the Black Sea and Asia Minor on the map, from 88 to 63 BC.