Word: pontus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left bank of the Tiber, Romulus keeps on talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder is a born con man, but one who believes his own line of patter...
...King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A rousing account of nine-lived old Warrior-King Mithridates...
...King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A rousing account of nine-lived old Warrior-King Mithradates, who vowed to unbuild Rome if it took all his days...
...King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A captivating history about Mithridates, who at 21 killed his brother, married his sister, mounted the throne of Pontus and bedeviled Imperial Rome...
...march on Italy, his son Pharnaces II led a revolution to overthrow him. Trapped in his own palace, the 69-year-old despot barked his last order-and was obediently stabbed to death by a trusted follower. Many a decade would pass before the memory of the King of Pontus faded from Roman minds-and still more decades before the brutish campaigns of the victors were forgotten by the ruined populace of Asia Minor...