The Poison King: Mithridates' Legacy

Before Rome ruled everything, there was one king they could NOT kill. His father murdered.

Enemies slipping poison into his food. So young Mithridates vanished into the

mountains for seven years. He came back different. Immune. He'd been dosing

himself with poison daily, building a tolerance no one had ever seen.

They called it mithridatism. Then he declared war on Rome. One night, coordinated attacks

swept across Asia Minor. Tens of thousands of Romans eliminated in a single orchestrated

strike. The Asian Vespers. Rome had never seen anything like it. So they sent their

best. Sulla. Lucullus. Pompey. The greatest generals