Mithridatic Wars 87 BC–62 BC

Ancient Rome ⚔ Kingdom of Pontus

Key battles

• Battle of Chaeronea (85 BC)
• Battle of Orchomenus (85 BC)
• Battle of Tigranocerta (68 BC)
• Battle of Artaxata (67 BC)
• Siege of Jerusalem (62 BC)

Who lived through the Mithridatic Wars

Well-known people alive during 87 BC–62 BC:

• Julius Caesar (99 BC–43 BC) — Roman general and dictator
• Cicero (106 BC–42 BC) — Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
• Lucretius (93 BC–54 BC) — 1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher
• Catullus (83 BC–53 BC) — lyric Latin poet of the Roman Republic
• Pompey (105 BC–47 BC) — Roman general and statesman (106–48 BC)
• Mark Antony (82 BC–29 BC) — Roman politician and general (83 BC – 30 BC)
• Bartholomew the Apostle (100 BC–) — Christian apostle and martyr
• Vitruvius (79 BC–14 BC) — Roman architect and engineer
• Spartacus (102 BC–70 BC) — Thracian gladiator who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic
• Diodorus Siculus (89 BC–19 BC) — 1st-century BC Greek historian
• Sallust (85 BC–34 BC) — Roman historian and politician (86 BC - c. 35 BC)
• Herod the Great (73 BC–3 BC) — king of Judea from 37/6 BCE to 4/1 BCE
• Marcus Junius Brutus (84 BC–41 BC) — assassin of Julius Caesar
• Sulla (137 BC–77 BC) — Roman dictator and general
• Tigranes the Great (139 BC–54 BC) — king of Armenia
• Marcus Terentius Varro (115 BC–26 BC) — Roman scholar, polymath and author (116–27 BC)
• Marcus Licinius Crassus (114 BC–52 BC) — member of the First Triumvirate
• Vercingetorix (79 BC–45 BC) — protohistoric chieftain of the Arverni tribe, defeated by Julius Caesar during the Gallic wars
• Mithridates VI of Pontus (133 BC–62 BC) — ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus from 120 to 63 BC
• Cato the Younger (94 BC–45 BC) — Roman statesman, general and writer (95–46 BC)
• Cornelius Nepos (99 BC–24 BC) — Roman historian and biographer (c.110 BC–c.25 BC)
• Posidonius (134 BC–50 BC) — Greek Stoic philosopher (c.135 – c.51 BC)
• Catiline (107 BC–61 BC) — Roman politician, senator and soldier (c.108–62 BC)
• Ptolemy XII Auletes (116 BC–50 BC) — 1st-century BC Egyptian pharaoh
• Valerius Maximus (100 BC–) — early 1st century AD Roman professional rhetorician, historian and author

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