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...KING OF PONTUS (208 pp.)-Alfred Duggan-Coward-McCann...
...readers to know who Mithradates was and why his longevity was worthy of note. In this book, able and highly readable, Historian Alfred (Julius Caesar) Duggan writes the first full-dress account of Mithradates' amazing life. Deftly stitched together from sundry classical sources (Plutarch, Appian, Strabo), King of Pontus is not only an excellent piece of history but a first-rate tale of war and adventure whose hero is never more heroic than in the closing years of a long and lusty life...
...descent from that renowned foe of the Greeks, the great King Darius of Persia. The world he entered in 132 B.C. was one in which royal parents freely poisoned their growing sons to prevent them growing too big-and with reason. At the age of 21, Prince Mithradates of Pontus imprisoned his mother, executed his brother, married his sister and mounted the throne...
...Greeks have a word for it! You speak of the fact that DDT has become ineffective against mosquitoes [TIME, Dec. 5]. Last summer while I was in Crete, a friend of mine said: "Yes, we have flies, and they have been Mithridated." Mithridates was King of Pontus just before the birth of Christ. He was quite unpopular, and made himself immune to poison by taking small and gradually increasing doses [until] he could take without risk something like 26 or 27 poisons...
...they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works...