Hello and welcome to another Ancient Warfare magazine podcast. In this episode, we're looking at volume 10,

issue three, Rome versus Poisonous Pontus, the Mithridatic Wars, 88 BC to 63 BC. Don't forget if you've not

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know what we're talking about before you listen to the podcasts. So in this episode, I'm joined by

Regulars Joshua Browers, Mary Dam, Mark McCaffrey and Mark DeSantis.

So I think before we get too far into things, we need to figure out who is Mithridates.

If you Wikipedia, him, there is lots of them.

It's the sixth one called you Pato.

He's the king of Pontus.

Going through your good journalistic,

Who, Why, and Where? Where is Pontus?

It's in Turkey.

In what is now Turkey.

Said on the north of Turkey.

Bordering the Black Sea.

That's where Pontus is located.

The Pontius. It was neither Greek or Persian, or, to flip it on its head, it was both Greek and Persian.

He claims descent from both Persian royal family and also the Macedonians in terms of Alexander the Great and the Macedonian kingdoms.

He, I think I can't remember which way around it is.

Maternal side claims from, descent from Darius I first, and then, no, hold on, I might

have mucked that round.

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