Mithridates: A Toxic King
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Join me for a long deep dive into the life of Mithridates VI Euptator Dionysos as we explore his life, family, kingdom, wars and immunity to poisons. Thank you to long time viewers and patrons for your patience waiting for this one. Enjoy!
Bibliography:
Mayor, A (2009) Mithridates: The Poison King
Summerer, L (2009) The Search for Mithridates. Reception of Mithridates VI between the 15th and the 20th Centuries
Totelin, L.M.V (2004) Mithridates' Antidote: A Pharmacological Ghost.
Appian, The Mithridatic Wars, trans. H. White. Available at: www.livius.org...
Plutarch: Lives of Lucullus/Sulla/Pompey/Sertorius. Trans B. Perrin available at:
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Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus. trans. J.S. Watson. Available at:
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Valerius Maximus. Trans. S. Speed. Available at:
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Music: Bensound.com
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@@Nick-uu8bn yeah I’m still making them, but they take a few months due to their length
@@generichistory
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I found your channel through your spartacus video, and i am absolutely astounded by the quality of these presentations. Your sequence of marius->sulla->mithridates are particularly excellent, because you manage to discuss these figures both from their own life and perspective, while also showing what it is from a broader historical perspective hat they represent. Very few popular historians can do both, but your relaxed presentation and clear narrative make it seem effortless. You have a gift for situating people in their historical context, simultaneously making the statue come to life and walk around, whilst also depositing the listener in the flow of time to feel it. I plan to listen to your lectures again. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, and i look forward to what you have coming out
Couldn't have said it better
Well worth the wait! Like you said, I'd only ever really heard of him as a "side character", and I always love getting deep dives into subjects on the periphery of the big histories we learn.
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Mithradates to me was like opposite to Pyrrus of Epirus. Pyrrus tried to emulate alexanders marshall prowess and succeeded and also failed. He won battles but never used his victories to establish himself in the areas he fought in. Mithradates seemed like a great statesman and politician but not an amazing general. He was able to establish and reestablish his kingdom multiple times. They are my two favorite enemies of rome.
More than Hannibal? He's gotta be number one. Mithradetes was always my favorite too though. Haha
@jonny-b4954 pyrrus is by far my favorite! But Hannibal was definitely the most dangerous out of all of them in my opinion!
Shapur I and II are also pretty annoying to the Romans, although it's imperial Rome.
@analander9222 yea I like pyrrus especially because of how new on the scene the Romans were. But both shapurs are definitely worthy adversarys
@@jonny-b4954he gave them a good run for their money but personally I find him a bit boring
Was looking for a good doc about Mithridates literally last night. Thank you mate!
Outstanding timing
"generic videos" my ass -
no sleek cartoons, ridiculous music and very almost limited hyperbole
just a geek and his script
love it !
Don’t use the word Geek say Scholar or somthing
@@dancerv5861language police are bad people
@@dancerv5861a scholar..that is geeking out on his interests
Oh man the length of this one, how exciting! Keep it up sir.
That's what she said
Yeah this one took a while and had to be cut down a lot 😂
@@generichistory is there a way we can have the uncut version?
@@dummerusername830 unfortunately I deleted the uncut video because I didn't think anyone would be interested. But if people want to see the extra bits that got thrown out, I might upload the uncut video script to the channel or my Patreon. It's mostly extra details on the first Mithridatic war, his wives and some more bits on Persian and Greek culture.
@@JaMeshuggah She cares more about the girth...
I’m very fond of your style of lecture or whatever you’d like to call it. Lots of the channels in this niche are over produced and tend to understate or retell the same old stories. So please keep up the great work and thanks
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Very exited for the video usually such high quality videos like this will happen once year you doing that in months is very impressive and it tell a lot about your hard work. So thank you
Thanks man it was a good few months of work
Almost 3 hours of Mithridates and Rome?
If I smoked weed, I'd be blazing up in anticipation....
But I don't...
So I won't...
But I'm still looking forward to it!
I'm toking now in your stead as I lay on my couch.
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You could start
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Super fun and entertaining
I highly recommend the series “Masters of Rome” by Colleen McCullough, 7 books on the 1st century BC. As you say Mithridates is more of a side-character in the stories of Sulla and Pompey there as well, but it is an amazingly well researched fiction on the fall of the Republic from Marius to Octavian!
Loved the video! Watch it all in one sitting, the narration is brilliant and it’s always informative without falling into repetition. Seriously top shelf stuff!
Worth every moment it took to finish.
Using "Ratamahatta" as a chapter transition is the cherry on top of this great video.
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I never comment on a history-type video but this one I truly enjoyed it
This might be one the best mithridates videos ive seen well researched and entertaining lol
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I really loved your little foray into experimental archeology when you recreated his famous recipe for the universal antidote! Truly groundbreaking research!
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What a fantastic and impressive presentation! Thank you. You are correct when you said that one most often hears about Mithridates from secondary sources. Exhibit 1 - the bronze krater of Mithridates in the Capitoline Museum, and Exhibit 2 - the Mozart Opera Mithridates re di Ponto. Your video is worth every second that it took to make and enjoy your well-deserved pasta.
I've knocked out three videos in the last couple days since finding this channel. Wowee, did I hit a gold mine! Thanks, friend, for this amazing contribution to the history scene.
Also, the joke where you kept substituting ingredients to Mithridate's 'especial sawce' only to end up with spaghetti (super Italian) was not lost on me. haha
Did you kill your channel with its name or something? Are the videos too long? No transgression is meant. To be fair it's probably the name, but such a quality channel shouldn't go unnoticed.
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Please upload more longer videos and often
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Actually he was a blessing for Rome. His armies were constantly crashed, he made Rome the dominant power in Asia Minor, the wealth of the area was exploited by Rome, and finally he made Sulla and Pompey wealthy and powerful. The last point wasn't exactly good for the republic but it's decay already started. Mithridates only accelerated the course to the empire
These videos are fantastic thanks for your work and I hope you continue
I love the semi-subtle gag of him replacing every ingredient with something else
This is fantastic content. Sulla is the man
Great content, it had a bit of everything, well researched history, humor and a tasting history style recipe. Thanks
Hats off with this program, the level of detail and delivery are second-to-none on Yotube. Also it crossed my mind that the feud between Mithriades and Rome bears resemblance to the El Classicos during the Mourinho-Guardiola era. Mourinho took his chance over and over again to defeat the mighty Barcelona, sometimes with full-court press, sometimes with dirty tricks and physical intimidation, but his Real Madrid were defeated at the end. Note: I was rooting for Mithridates/Mourinho all along 😉
Excellent! Waiting for more, like this one and the one on Sulla.
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I could listen to this for 3 more hours.
Great video. I watched it over a span of a week or two like a series. Very much enjoyed it
Mithridates seemed like he could of been the greatest man of his time but luck just wasn’t on his side
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Worth it.
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The poison king! A great villain against an early Rome!
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Great historical overview of life and aspirations of the leading Roman, seems they wanted to be remembered.
great video as always been binging your content last few days and i want to thank you for shedding more light on that last 100-50 years before Ceasar comes around im fairly new to roman history so i literally was pretty in the dark about this there is so much content on Ceasar and octavian and the empire but so little about this a bit more distant republic before ceasar honestly before your videos i just knew that pompey conquered anatolia and that"s why he was great most people just talk about his rivalry with ceasar.
I barely knew about Arausio and marius so yeah thanks for that and i hope you will still make videos about the republic as it's quite overshadowed by the empire so it would be really cool to listen about that
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I got all the way to canned tomatoes before realizing that he's just making spaghetti for dinner. So good.
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I wasn't looking at the screen at the time, so when "PRESERVE THE PURITY OF THE BLOODLINE" came up I almost had a heart attack.
Stumbled on your channel.
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Well, I’ve finally gotten a clear geographical picture of Anatolia from this lecture. Thank you
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Just found the channel! Love it! But is your smoke detector on for large portions of it?
problem is you'd have to accept a dinner invitation or three. what kind of traitor wouldn't
best bring a few mates and hope the odds stack in your favour. in any age
Notice that all we know about Mithridates is written by Roman historians, so it is really hard to expect them to be unbiased.
But what we know about how the Romans thought and their preconceptions and values helps unravel some of those biases
@@Pickledsundae To some extent. Information which was hidden by Roman historians may be lost forever.
This is like Budget Museum but for history and longer
The Sulla bromance continues ;)
Cataphracts if used properly with the required vanguard skirmisher screen and fallowing heavy Infantry right behind the Cataphracts...
become one of the hardest hitting cavalry formations of their time.
If you were to build an army around the Cataphract, Horse Archers would act as an amazing second core unit
Missed the chance to mention that Caesar said the famous "Veni, vidi, vici" after beating Mithridates' son Pharnaces. Basically, a blip on Romes radar a generation later
The proud naval history of Rhodes is very impressive. Their last gasp as a naval power was against none other than the Romans, specifically Cassius and Brutus, who attacked and defeated them for maintaining their allegiance to the Caesarians. Must have been ironic for the those who lived to see them fight off Mithridates VI.
Subbed, great video - unique content style!
I suspect his birth was during a comet, not a meteor. A meteor shoots through the sky in the blink of an eye and depending on time of year can occur by the dozens, even hundreds. Nothing particularly unusual. A comet on the other hand can linger for days and in some cases can be seen even during the daytime. In other words, exactly the rare spectacular event that would be interpreted as a sign of the gods.
My favorite ancient Red Wedding is the one recorded in 1 Maccabees 12 starting in verse 39.
Mithridates VI scores 23. Elon Musk, "hold my beer !"
Mithridaites in 88 BC: execute order 66
Love the video. Great presentation. The only critique i have is that I cannot read your maps for the life of me. My brain keeps seeing white as land
thanks for letting me know, I'll try a different design next time to make it clearer
Thanks
New to the channel. Awesome work, mate
Love your channel, sir! Do you have a podcast? I’d love to hear it.
Brilliant episode
Great work, thank you❤
The madlad did it!
I'm totally stealing phrase "my brother in Apollo".
Nice video! Adrian Mayors book is pretty great! History is written by the victors, saddly.