Rome’s Most Wanted Enemy – Poison King Mithradates Murdered 80,000 Roman Civilians
AncientPages.com | December 17, 2017
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In the autumn of 88 BC, more than 80,000 Roman civilians were murdered. The mastermind behind this gruesome attack was Mithradates VI Of Pontus (120-63 BCE), the Poison King.
When news about the horrible massacre reached the Roman Republic, King Mithradates was declared Rome’s ‘most wanted enemy’. General Sulla (138 B.C. -79 B.C) was ordered to seek and destroy the man who was considered a huge threat to the Roman Republic. However, this was not an easy task and the wars between King Mithradates and Rome would drag on for decades, spanning two continents.
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