Mithridates

Mithradates - less correctly Mithridates - a Persian name derived from Mithras, the sun-god, and the Indo-European root da "to give," i.e. "given by Mithras."

This name was borne by a large number of kings, soldiers and statesmen in Asia Minor. The earliest are Mithradates, the eunuch who helped Artabanus[?] to assassinate Xerxes I and the Mithradates who fought first with Cyrus the Younger and after his death with Artaxerxes[?] against the Greeks, and is the ancestor of the kings of Pontus.

Rulers who held this name include:

• Mithridates I of Parthia[?] (171 - 137 BC)
• Mithridates II of Parthia (110 - 87 BC)
• Mithridates III of Parthia[?] (58 - 57 BC)
• Mithridates IV of Parthia[?] (AD 128 - 147)
• Mithridates I of Cius[?] (c.336 - 302 BC)
• Mithridates II Ktistes[?] (302 - 366 BC)
• Mithridates III of Pontus[?]
• Mithridates IV of Pontus[?] (156 - c.150 BC)
• Mithridates V of Pontus[?] (died 120 BC)
• Mithridates VI of Pontus[?] (120 - 63 BC)
• Mithridates I of the Bosporus[?]
• Mithridates II of the Bosporus[?]
• Mithridates I of Commagene[?]
• Mithridates II of Commagene[?]
• Mithridates of Armenia[?] (AD 35 - 51)

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