The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy
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 nothing to protect his people-and who would go down in history as one of the greatest and most formidable warriors of the ancient world.
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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 nothing to protect his people-and who would go down in history as one of the greatest and most formidable warriors of the ancient world.
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Mass Market Paperback, 414 pages
Published
April 2005
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
(first published March 2004)
original title
The Last King
ISBN
031293615X
(ISBN13: 9780312936150)
edition language
English
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