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Group: Aro Confederacy
People: Polycrates
Topic: Mithridatic War, Second
Location: Daraa Daraa Syria

Mithridatic War, Second

Years: 83BCE - 81BCE

The Second Mithridatic War (83-82 BCE), fought between King Mithridates VI of Pontus and general Lucius Licinius Murena, ends inconclusively after a Roman defeat, and withdrawal on Sulla's orders.

β€œAnd in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.”

― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (2010)