Books Details
Author : Michael Curtis Ford Pages : 414 pages Publisher : St.
Martin's Paperbacks Language : ISBN-10 : 98083.The_Last_King
ISBN-13 : 9780312936150
Books Descriptions
To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was
not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a
ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea:
Mithridates Eupator VI, the last king of Pontus, known to
history as Mithridates the Great. At age eleven, he inherited a
small mountain kingdom of wild tribesmen whom his wicked mother
governed in his place. Sweeping to power at twenty-one-years-
old, he proved to be a military genius and a man intent on
ousting the Romans from the Black Sea coast territories. For
over forty years, Rome sent its greatest generals to contain
Mithridates, but time and again he embarrassed the Romans with
devastating defeats. Each time Rome declared victory,
Mithridates considered it merely a strategic retreat and soon
came roaring back with a more powerful army than before.From
the author of the acclaimed The Ten Thousand and Gods and
Legions, comes a fascinating recreation of a wickedly cunning
and ruthless king who would stop at
