Mithridates was a Greco-Persian king, who left his mark in history for his war against the Romans and for developing immunity ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

The Persians conquered Notion, along with other Greek settlements, in the mid-6th century B.C. During the Greco-Persian Wars of the early 5th century B.C., the city was freed. But in the early 4th ...