... by Mithradates, and the book of the North African king Iuba publicizing his new discovery of euphorbion. Dioscorides exploits not only plants but also parts of various animals. Disocorides is careful with the powerful analgesic drugs then available, henbane, mandrake, and opium. His fifth book covers mineral...

... heracleum herakleion shrine of H Herodotus Hyllus lion skin Mithradates Mithridates I Callinicus Mithradates Mithridates VI Eupator Nemea Phye Pisander of Rhodes Lepcis Magna Septimius Severus Apollonius of Rhodes Hylas mosaics Achelous Argonauts Assteas bulls Deian e ira wife of H...

..., or Octavian’s prize seized upon the Queen’s death. It also discusses the significance of cameo carving to Augustus and his use of such objects as political tools. gemstones and Rome Octavian Augustus Pliny the Elder Tazza Farnese Tazza Egypt gemstones Greece marble Mithradates VI king Ptolemaic rulers...

... plots the careers of successive, ever escalating individuals across multiple books (Antiochus III, Mithradates, Pompeius Magnus, Julius Caesar) to suggest affinities between them, but also how Julius Caesar ends up surpassing them all, and develops an idea of Caesar as showing a ‘daring’ that is both...

...The rise of the Parthian Empire had significant ramifications and implications for the history of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. This chapter focuses primarily on the development of the Parthian Empire from the reign of Mithradates I through to the reign of Vologaeses I (ad 51–78...

... interest in cataloguing the exotic, but Appian’s parallel portrayal of Mithradates VI, dynamic while Pompeius is dawdling, shows that Appian’s sense for what is important designedly varies at points from that of the individuals in the History. Mithradates further exemplifies Appian’s...