Third Mithridatic War
The biographer Suetonius had Julius Caesar remark in his "De vita Caesarum" that the Amazons "once ruled a large part of Asia". Appian provides a vivid description of Themiscyra and its fortifications in his account of Lucius Lucinius Lucullus' "Siege of Themiscyra" in 71 BC during the Third Mithridatic War.