Overview
The Mithridatic War hub connects the Asian massacre, the Greek campaign, Sulla’s victories and the Roman political crisis caused by the struggle for command.
Atlas Entries
Mithridates VI Eupator
The king of Pontus who challenged Rome in the East.
OpenAsiatic Vespers
The massacre that made vengeance unavoidable.
OpenFirst Mithridatic War
The foreign war that became a domestic rupture.
OpenBattle of Chaeronea
Sulla’s first major victory in Greece.
OpenBattle of Orchomenus
The battle that broke Mithridatic power in Greece.
OpenPeace of Dardanus
The settlement that freed Sulla to return west.
OpenIn the Library
Command and Rivalry
The chapter in which foreign war and Roman rivalry merge.
OpenRome Divided
The Roman consequences of Sulla’s absence and return.
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