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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
If this was marketed as a historical novel it might ...
By Caedite Eos!
If this was marketed as a historical novel it might just scrape 3 stars but as a work of ancient history it is positively mis-sold and had i bought it direct from Princeton University Press I'd be demanding my money back.Firstly the author throughout imagines whole sections of the book based on the flimsiest evidence - young Mithradates for instance is said by one source to have spent some time in semi-exile in the mountains - which Mayor turns into a Robin Hood saga imagining how and why he escaped the palace, how many companions he had, what he hunted and ate, what they did for R&R - page after page after page of pure historical fantasy.She is also strangely ignorant of multiple basic facts about ancient history - she states Marius conquered Germany (as opposed to having defended Italy itself from invading tribes who may have been what would later be called 'German'), she believes that Roman legionaries were armed not with pilum and gladius but javelins and 'machetes', she thinks that in Athenian democracy 'all classes' of people had the vote etc etc.The book is well illustrated with images many of which however have zero historical value.Overall I am just astonished that a reputable university press published this volume.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Part historical biography and part historical fiction...
By C. Ball
A king born amidst myth and legend, prophesied as a saviour, born under an Eastern star, destined to make war on the mightiest empire the world had known. No, not Jesus, he came later. First there was Mithradates, born in what we now know as Turkey, king of Pontus and Anatolia, and one of the Roman Republic's most formidable opponents - hailed alongside Spartacus and Hannibal as one of the greatest threats to Rome's existence. He claimed descent from Darius the Great of Persia and Alexander the Great of Macedonia and aimed at forging his own empire in Anatolia and the Black Sea. He fought a series of wars against Rome, from 88 BC to 63 BC, sometimes winning great victories, sometimes losing disastrously, but always returning again and again. Rome never did quite defeat Mithradates, and he died an old man, by his own hand.He was also engrossed by what we could call pharmacology and toxicology, endlessly experimenting with plants, poisons and venoms, to create a universal antidote. Condemned criminals in Mithradates' lands were executed via poison, with the king carefully observing and noting reactions, speed, suffering. For centuries after his death, a mithridate was a semi-mythical remedy against poisons, taken by kings and queens throughout history. One could still buy mithradates from physicians in London as late as 1786.It's a fascinating story, and I only wish I could trust that much of this book was actually true. I would call this an imaginative biography rather than a historical biography - there are simply too many gaps plugged by speculation, too many holes in the records filled with 'what ifs', too much informed imaginative speculation. It's a great read, a good story well-told, but reading this book it is very difficult to pull apart what is actual verifiable historical record from what the author thinks seems plausible. Certainly the last chapter is worthy of historical fiction!I understand the frustrations of writing the biography of such a distant figure, when so little survives and much of what does was written by his enemies. But that isn't an open invitation to just 'fill in the blanks'. That said, Adrienne Mayor is quite honest from the beginning about the nature of this book and how much informed speculation went into it - and in a way, one could argue all history to a certain extent is mere informed speculation, backed up by carefully chosen and marshalled evidence. Perhaps Mayor is just more open about it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Superb
By Starlight
This is a marvellous book!Not only is it excellently researched history but uses deep and sensitive imagination in the very best sense of the word,to convey the character of Mithridates and those around him.Of course the word 'imagination' scares people but if history is to be understood and not to be just a few scraps pieced together from records and artefacts,then 'Imagination' in the way used here is an essential tool.(I mean Niall Fergusson would understand that statement)So the book presents a full character of flesh ,blood and feeling ;certaily not the kind of person you would want to meet coming down the road ,but a hero and man of charisma ,daring ,hate and love.Not only that ,the book is superbly written and very exciting.What a shame Shakespeare didn't make a play about him!many others did.One would like to imagine what sort of person Mithridates would be if he were born into our times.A sort of Thodore Roosvelt maybe?Or maybe his revolutionary ideas would rebel against the worlds of academic orthodoxies and scientific materialism ( the inheritance of the Roman mind) and become the discoverer of something like a spiritual form of medecine?So you see ,the book also succeeds by being a great stimulus, which is the very best one can ask for.!

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