The ambitious Roman general Lucius Licinius Murena, instigating what is called the Second Mithridatic War, invades Pontus without provocation in 83, landing in the Kizilirmak River area.
"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."
