The Economics of Urbanism in the Roman East
Journal: University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark)
Year: 2020

Mithradates VI has been called Rome's deadliest enemy. 2 Even if he may not quite have been that, he was certainly one of Rome's most persistent enemies.Over a period of 25 years, he waged three major wars against Rome, one of which -the first Mithradatic war (89-85 BC) -for a time brought the whole of Roman Asia Minor, as well as Athens, under his control.The third Mithradatic war lasted for more than a decade, until the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius cornered the army of Mithradates in the uppe