Mithridates Chrestos – the fate of a younger brother
The sleepy little kingdom of Pontus in what is now Northern Turkey was a backwater in the Hellenistic era. Its rulers affected a Greek culture, but ruled over a largely Persian land, that had changed little since Alexander overthrew the Achaemenid Persian empire. Mithridates V Euergetes married a princess named Laodice, from the Seleucid dynasty […]