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Mithridates or Mithradates is the Hellenistic form of an Iranian theophoric name, meaning "given by the deity Mithra
Mithra

Mithra is an important deity or divine concept in Zoroastrianism and later Iranian history and culture.Mithra is descended, together with the Historical Vedic religion deity Mitra , from a common proto-Indo-Iranian entity *mitra "treaty, bond"....
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Mithridates or Mithradates is the Hellenistic form of an Iranian theophoric name, meaning "given by the deity Mithra
Mithra

Mithra is an important deity or divine concept in Zoroastrianism and later Iranian history and culture.Mithra is descended, together with the Historical Vedic religion deity Mitra , from a common proto-Indo-Iranian entity *mitra "treaty, bond"....
". It may refer to:

Rulers
  • Mithridates I of Parthia
    Mithridates I of Parthia

    Mithridates I was the "Great King" of Parthia from ca. 171 BC - 138 BC, succeeding his brother Phraates I of Parthia. His father was King Phriapatius of Parthia, who died ca....
     (r. 171-138 BC), "Great King" of Parthia
  • Mithridates II of Parthia
    Mithridates II of Parthia

    Mithridates II the Great was the Greatest king of Parthian Empire from 123 to 88 BC. His name invokes the protection of Mithra. He adopted the title Epiphanes, "god manifest" and introduced new designs on his extensive coinage....
     (r. 110-87 BC)
  • Mithridates III of Parthia
    Mithridates III of Parthia

    King Mithridates III of Parthia ruled the Parthia c. 57?54 BC. With the assistance of his brother Orodes II of Parthia he murdered his father Phraates III of Parthia....
     (r. 58-57 BC)
  • Mithridates IV of Parthia
    Mithridates IV of Parthia

    Mithridates IV of Parthia ruled the western Parthia from 129 to 140. He was the brother of Osroes I of Parthia . During the invasion of Mesopotamia by the Roman emperor Trajan in 116 he and his son Sanatruces II of Parthia took up the diadem but were defeated....
     (r. 128-147 AD)
  • Mithridates I of Pontus
    Mithridates I of Pontus

    Mithridates I Ctistes was the List of Kings of Pontus of the kingdom of Pontus in Anatolia.In 302 or 301 BC, shortly after having executed his father Mithridates II of Cius, the Diadochi Antigonus I Monophthalmus became suspicious of the son who had inherited the family dominion of Cius....
     (r. c. 302-266 BC), founder of the kingdom of Pontus
  • Mithridates II of Pontus
    Mithridates II of Pontus

    Mithridates II , List of Kings of Pontus king of Pontus and son of Ariobarzanes of Pontus, whom he succeeded on the throne. He was a minor when his father died, but the period of his accession cannot be deter?mined....
     (r. c. 250-220 BC)
  • Mithridates III of Pontus
    Mithridates III of Pontus

    Mithridates III was the List of Kings of Pontus king of Pontus, probably son of Mithridates II of Pontus. He may have ruled in an uncertain period between 220 BC and 183 BC....
     (r. c. 220-185 BC)
  • Mithridates IV of Pontus
    Mithridates IV of Pontus

    Mithridates IV Philopator and Philadelphus , List of Kings of Pontus king of Pontus and son of Mithridates III of Pontus. The date of his accession to the throne is utterly mysterious, since we first hear of him as ruler only in 154 BC, when he is mentioned as sending an auxiliary force to the assistance of Attalus II against Prusias II of Bi...
     (r. c. 170-150 BC)
  • Mithridates V of Pontus
    Mithridates V of Pontus

    Mithridates V Euergetes , List of Kings of Pontus king of Pontus, was probably son of Pharnaces I of Pontus, and nephew of Mithridates IV of Pontus....
     (r. c. 150-120 BC)
  • Mithridates VI of Pontus
    Mithridates VI of Pontus

    Mithradates VI , from Old Persian Mithradatha, "gift of Mithra"; b. 134, d. 63 BC, also known as Mithradates the Great and Eupator Dionysius, was king of Pontus in northern Anatolia from about 119 to 63 BC....
     (r. c. 120-63 BC), also known as Mithridates the Great
  • Mithridates I Callinicus
    Mithridates I Callinicus

    Mithridates I Callinicus was a king of Orontid Dynastydescent who lived between 2nd century BC and 1st century BC. Mithridates was a prince, the son and successor of King of Commagene, Sames II Theosebes Dikaios....
     (r. 109-70 BC)
  • Mithridates II of Commagene
    Mithridates II of Commagene

    Mithridates II Antiochus Epiphanes Philorhomaios Philhellen Monocritis, also known as Mithridates II of Commagene was a man of Armenian and Greeks descent who lived in the 1st century BC....
     (r. 38-20 BC)
  • Mithridates III of Commagene
    Mithridates III of Commagene

    Mithridates III Antiochus Epiphanes, also known as Mithridates III Commagene was a man of Armenian and Greeks descent, who lived in the 1st century BC....
     (r. 20-12 BC)
  • Mithridates I of the Bosporus
    Mithridates I of the Bosporus

    Mithridates I of the Bosporus was a leading citizen of Pergamon and possibly one of the many bastard sons of the famous King Mithridates VI of Pontus....
     (1st century BC)
  • Mithridates of Armenia
    Mithridates of Armenia

    Mithridates of Armenia was an Caucasian Iberia prince and a Kingdom of Armenia under the protection of the Roman Empire.Mithridates was installed by his brother Pharasmanes I of Iberia who, encouraged by Tiberius, invaded Armenia and captured its capital Artaxata in 35....
     (r. 35-51 AD)
  • Mithridates I of Iberia
    Mithridates I of Iberia

    Mithridates I was the 1st-century king of Caucasian Iberia whose reign is evidenced by epigraphic material. Cyril Toumanoff suggests as A.D. 58-106 as the years of his reign....
     (r. 30-50 AD)
  • Mihrdat II of Iberia
    Mihrdat II of Iberia

    Mihrdat II , of the Arsacid dynasty of Iberia, was a king of Caucasian Iberia from 249 to 265 A.D..He is known exclusively from the medieval Georgian chronicles which make him either 22nd or 24th in the royal list of Iberia and merely relates that Mihrdat was the son of Bakur I of Iberia....
     (r. 249-265 AD)
  • Mihrdat III of Iberia
    Mihrdat III of Iberia

    Mihrdat III , of the Chosroid Dynasty, was the king of Caucasian Iberia from c. 365 to 380 .Mihrdat succeeded his father, Varaz-Bakur I of Iberia known as Aspacures to the contemporaneous historian Ammianus Marcellinus and installed by Shapur II, the Sassanid king of Persian Empire on the place of his elder brother Sauromaces II of Iberia....
     (r. c. 365-380 AD)
  • Mihrdat IV of Iberia
    Mihrdat IV of Iberia

    Mihrdat IV , of the Chosroid Dynasty, was the king of Caucasian Iberia from c. 409 to 411.He was the son of Varaz-Bakur II of Iberia and the grandson of Trdat of Iberia....
     (r. c. 409-411 AD)
  • Mihrdat V of Iberia
    Mihrdat V of Iberia

    Mihrdat V , of the Chosroid Dynasty, was the king of Caucasian Iberia reigning, according to a medieval Georgian literary tradition, for 12 years, from c....
     (r. c. 435-447 AD)
  • Mithridates I of Cius
    Mithridates I of Cius

    Mithridates , son of Ariobarzanes I of Cius prince of Cius, is mentioned by Xenophon as having betrayed his father, and the same circumstance is alluded to by Aristotle....
     (d. 363 BC), also known as Mithridates I of Kios
  • Mithridates II of Cius
    Mithridates II of Cius

    Mithridates of Cius succeeded his father Ariobarzanes II of Cius in 337 BC as ruler of the Greek town of Cius in Mysia . Diodorus Siculus assigns him a rule of thirty-five years, but it appears that he did not hold uninterrupted possession of the sovereignty during that period....
     (r. 337-302 BC), also known as Mithridates II of Kios
  • Tiberius Julius Mithridates
    Tiberius Julius Mithridates

    Tiberius Julius Mithridates was a Roman Empire Client King of the Bosporan Kingdom. The Bosporan Kingdom was the longest surviving known Roman Client Kingdom....
    , 1st century Roman Client King


Other people
  • Mithridates of Persia
    Mithridates of Persia

    Mithridates was a Persians of high rank, and son-in-law of the king Darius III of Persia, who was slain by Alexander the Great with his own hand, at the battle of the Granicus, 334 BC....
     (d. 334 BC), son-in-law of Darius III
  • Mithridates (d. 401 BC), Persian soldier who killed Cyrus the Younger
    Cyrus the Younger

    Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II of Persia and Parysatis, was a History of Persia prince and general. The time of his birth is unknown, but he died in 401 BC....
     in 401 BC, according to Plutarch.
  • Mithradates, eunuch who assisted in the assassination of Xerxes I of Persia
    Xerxes I of Persia

    Xerxes the Great, also known as Xerxes I of Persia, was a Persian Empire of the Achaemenid Empire. X?rxes is the Greek language form of the Old Persian throne name X?ayar?a, meaning "Ruler of heroes"....
     (d. 465 BC)
  • r uses
  • Mithridate
    Mithridate

    Mithridatium, also known as as mithridate," "mithridatum, mithridatium or mithridaticum, is a semi-mythical remedy with as many as 65 ingredients, used as an antidote for poisoning, and said to be created by Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus....
    , semi-mythical antidote
  • Mithridatism
    Mithridatism

    Mithridatism is the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts. The word derives from Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus, who so feared being poisoned that he regularly ingested small doses, aiming to develop immunity ....
    , the practice of taking repeated low doses of a poison with the intent of building immunity to it.
  • Mehrdad
    Mehrdad

    Mehrdad is a Persian male given name.'Mehrdad' derives from Middle Persian Mihrdat, a theophoric name meaning "Given by Mihr." 'Mihr' in turn derives from Avestan Mithra, the Zoroastrian divinity and hypostasis of covenant....
    , Persian male given name, equivalent of Mithradata
  • Mithridate, 1673 play by Jean Racine
    Jean Racine

    Jean Racine was a France dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition....
  • Mithridates, philological term for any book in multiple languages, after Mithridates VI of Pontus
    Mithridates VI of Pontus

    Mithradates VI , from Old Persian Mithradatha, "gift of Mithra"; b. 134, d. 63 BC, also known as Mithradates the Great and Eupator Dionysius, was king of Pontus in northern Anatolia from about 119 to 63 BC....
     who was said to be able to speak in over 25 languages