Mithridates
Mithridates or Mithradates is the name of many kings, rulers and persons, predominantly in Asia Minor and Persia . The name means "given to Mithra ".
Name in different cultures
The Persian form of the name is Mithradata . The name Mehrdad , which is widespread in today's Iran, is derived from this name via the Middle Persian form "Mihrdat" (cf. the name of the deity Mithra ).
Greek coins and inscriptions use Mithradates with one exception . The exception is a coin with the unknown ruler Mithridates Philo from later times. The oldest Greek historians, Herodotus and Ktesias, use the forms Mithradates and Mitradates . With the later and especially with all writers of the Roman period Mithridates stands .
The oldest Latin form on a Capitoline inscription uses Metradates . This is followed by Mitredates or Mitridates . Mithridates finally prevailed .
Achaemenids
- Shepherd Mithradates helps save the life of the young Cyrus (around 600 BC)
- Mithradates , military leader at the Battle of Granikos and son-in-law of Darius III.
Pontos (Asia Minor)
- Mithridates I (302-266 BC)
- Mithridates II. (Approx. 255–220 BC)
- Mithridates III. (approx. 220–185 BC)
- Mithridates IV. Philopator Philadelphus (approx. 169–150 BC)
- Mithridates V. Euergetes (approx. 150–120 BC)
- Mithridates VI. Eupator Dionysus (132–63 BC), see also Mithridatic Wars and Mithridatisation
Parthian (Persia)
- Mithridates I of Parthia (165–132 BC)
- Mithridates II of Parthia (121–91 BC)
- Mithridates III. of Parthia (87-80 BC)
- Mithridates IV of Parthia (58–53 BC)
- Mithridates V of Parthia (128–147)
Commagene (Asia Minor)
- Mithridates I. Callinikos of Kommagene (109–70 BC)
- Mithridates II of Kommagene (around 31 BC)
- Mithridates III. von Kommagene (around 20 BC)
Bosporan Empire (Crimea Peninsula)
- Mithridates I from the Bosporus
- Mithridates II from the Bosporus
Iberia (Caucasus)
Other local rulers
- Mithridates of Atropatene (approx. 85–66 BC)
- Mithridates of Armenia (35–51)
- Mithridates of Pergamon (at the time of Caesar )
- Mithridates I of Kios
- Mithridates II of Kios
- Mithridates Sinnakes , Parthian governor around 88 BC Chr.
Opera
- Il Mitridate Eupatore , Tragedia per Musica by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)
- Mitridate , Opera seria in three acts by Nicola Antonio Porpora (1686–1768); two versions: Rome 1730 and London 1736
- Mitridate, re di Ponto , KV 87, opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , 1770
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Théodore Reinach : Mithradates Eupator King of Pontus. Leipzig 1895, p. 67. Retrieved on March 28, 2019 .