The Last King
Subtitle: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: April 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780312936150
Subjects: Historical adventure; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Historical - General; War & Military; Fiction / Historical; History; King of Pontus,; Kings and rulers; Mithridates; Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C.; Pontus; Rome; VI Eupator,; ca. 132-63 B.C.
First sentence: The greatest and most feared of all of Rome's enemies was not the mighty Hannibal, whose mid-winter march over the Alps has captured the imagination of generations; nor the wily African king Jugurtha, who so capably exploited Roman political rivalries; nor even the Germanic hordes, who during a particularly vulnerable period in Rome's history poured over the Alps and nearly sacked the entire Italian peninsula.