Mithridates VI Eupator

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human king monarch of Pontus

Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Mithridates VI of Pontus	4
Mithridates	1
Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysus	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ king ⓘ monarch of Pontus ⓘ
alliedWith	Kingdom of Armenia ⓘ Tigranes the Great ⓘ
birthDate	circa 135 BCE ⓘ
causeOfDeath	suicide ⓘ
claimedDescentFrom	Alexander the Great ⓘ Darius I of Persia ⓘ
conflict	First Mithridatic War ⓘ Second Mithridatic War ⓘ Third Mithridatic War ⓘ
controlled	Black Sea region ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Pontus ⓘ
deathDate	63 BCE ⓘ
deathPlace	Kingdom of the Bosporus ⓘ Panticapaeum ⓘ
dynasty	Mithridatic dynasty ⓘ
epithet	Dionysus ⓘ Eupator ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Anatolian Greek ⓘ Persian ⓘ
failedSuicideMethod	poison ⓘ
father	Mithridates V Euergetes ⓘ surface form: Mithridates V of Pontus
fullName	Mithridates VI Eupator self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysus
givenName	Mithridates VI Eupator self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Mithridates
hasConceptNamedAfter	mithridatism ⓘ
hasLegacy	symbol of resistance to Rome ⓘ
methodOfSuicide	ordered execution by a bodyguard ⓘ
mother	Laodice VI ⓘ
nativeLanguage	Greek ⓘ Persian ⓘ
notableFor	Mithridatic Wars with Rome ⓘ surface form: Mithridatic Wars against Rome creation of a universal antidote (mithridate) ⓘ development of mithridatism ⓘ experiments with poisons and antidotes ⓘ massacre of Romans in Asia Minor ⓘ resistance to Roman expansion ⓘ
opponent	Pompey the Great ⓘ surface form: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Lucius Cornelius Sulla ⓘ Lucius Licinius Lucullus ⓘ surface form: Lucullus Roman Republic ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Pontus ⓘ
positionHeld	King of Pontus ⓘ
regnalNumber	VI ⓘ
reignEnd	63 BCE ⓘ
reignStart	circa 120 BCE ⓘ
religion	Hellenistic polytheism ⓘ
territoryExpandedTo	Bithynia ⓘ Cappadocia ⓘ Colchis ⓘ Crimea ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pompey the Great → defeated → Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mithridates VI of Pontus

Mithridates VI Eupator → fullName → Mithridates VI Eupator self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysus

Mithridates VI Eupator → givenName → Mithridates VI Eupator self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mithridates

Pontus → hasRuler → Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ

Eupatoria → namedAfter → Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ

Mount Mithridat → namedAfter → Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mithridates VI of Pontus

Kingdom of Pontus → notableRuler → Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ

Kingdom of the Bosporus → notableRuler → Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mithridates VI of Pontus

Lucius Cornelius Sulla → opponent → Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mithridates VI of Pontus

Kingdom of Pontus → ruler → Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ