The Meeting between Marius and Mithridates and the Pontic Policy in Cappadocia
The meeting between Marius and Mithri-dates Eupator prevented a Pontic annexation of Cappdocia. The Roman leader warned the Pontic king and threatened him with war. Mithridates belonged to the Ariarathid house of Cappadocia because Laodice, the king’s mother, was a member of this royal family. Accor...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/43616 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11441/43616 https://doi.org/10.13113/CEDRUS.201406461 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Marius Mithridates Eupator Ariarathes Cappadocia Pontus Sulla Ariobarzanes Kappadokia |
| Sumario: | The meeting between Marius and Mithri-dates Eupator prevented a Pontic annexation of Cappdocia. The Roman leader warned the Pontic king and threatened him with war. Mithridates belonged to the Ariarathid house of Cappadocia because Laodice, the king’s mother, was a member of this royal family. Accordingly, Eupator tried to intervene in Cappado-cian affairs, as shown in the coincidence between his accession to the throne and the murder of Ariarathes VI ca .110 B.C. After the death of both Ariarathes VII and his brother Ariarathes VIII, Mithridates was the eldest male member in the Ariarathid line of succes-sion, and an annexation of Cappadocia would have been well justified. The setting of the young Pontic prince Ariarathes IX on the throne was a temporary solution, but both Rome and a sector of the Cappado-cian nobility did not agree, and Ariobarzanes I Philor-homaios was appointed king |
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