Mithridates or Mithradates (Old Persian ð·ð¡ð°ð¼ðÂÂÂð ð« MiøradÃÂta) is the Hellenistic form of an Iranian theophoric name, meaning "given by Mithra". Its Modern Persian form is Mehrdad. It may refer to:
Rulers
- Of Cius (also known as Kios)
- Mithridates of Cius (d. 363 BC)
- Mithridates II of Cius (r. 337âÂÂ302 BC)
- Mithridates III of Cius (r. c. 301 BC) (became Mithridates I of Pontus, for whom see below)
- Of Pontus
- Mithridates I of Pontus (r. c. 281âÂÂ266 BC), originally Mithridates III of Cius and also called Mithridates I Ctistes, founder of the Kingdom of Pontus
- Mithridates II of Pontus (r. c. 250âÂÂ220 BC)
- Mithridates III of Pontus (r. c. 220âÂÂ185 BC)
- Mithridates IV of Pontus (r. c. 170âÂÂ150 BC), full name Mithridates Philopator Philadelphus
- Mithridates V Euergetes (r. c. 150âÂÂ120 BC)
- Mithridates VI Eupator (r. c. 120âÂÂ63 BC), also known as Mithridates the Great, after whom the Mithridatic Wars, Mithridate (Racine), and several stage works are named
- Of Parthia
- Mithridates I of Parthia (r. 171âÂÂ132 BC) also known as Mithridates I the Great
- Mithridates II of Parthia (r. 124âÂÂ88 BC) also known as Mithridates the Great
- Mithridates III of Parthia (r. 87âÂÂ80 BC)
- Mithridates IV of Parthia (r. 57âÂÂ54 BC)
- Mithridates V of Parthia (r. 129âÂÂ140 AD)
- Meherdates of Parthia (r. 49-51 AD) successor of Vonones I
- Of Commagene
- Mithridates I Callinicus (r. 109âÂÂ70 BC)
- Mithridates II of Commagene (r. 38âÂÂ20 BC), full name Mithridates II Antiochus Epiphanes Philorhomaeus Philhellen Monocrites
- Mithridates III of Commagene (r. 20âÂÂ12 BC), full name Mithridates III Antiochus Epiphanes
- Of Media Atropatene
- Mithridates I of Media Atropatene (r. 67âÂÂ66 BC)
- Of the Bosporus
- Mithridates II of the Bosporus (r. 47-46 BC), also known as Mithridates of Pergamon
- Tiberius Julius Mithridates, (r. 39âÂÂ44/45 AD, d. 68 AD), also known as Mithridates III of the Bosporus, 1st-century Roman client king
- Of Armenia
- Mithridates of Armenia (r. 35âÂÂ51 AD)
- Of Iberia
- Mihrdat I of Iberia (r. 58âÂÂ106 AD)
- Mihrdat II of Iberia (r. 249âÂÂ265 AD)
- Mihrdat III of Iberia (r. c. 365âÂÂ380 AD)
- Mihrdat IV of Iberia (r. c. 409âÂÂ411 AD)
- Mihrdat V of Iberia (r. c. 435âÂÂ447 AD)
- Of Colchis
- Mithridates of Colchis ()
Other people
- Mithridates (Persian general) (d. 334 BC), son-in-law of Darius III
- Mitradates, according to Herodotus a Median herdsman, who was ordered to murder the future Cyrus the Great by his grandfather Astyages, but who secretly raised him with his wife Cyno until the age of ten, having passed off their own stillborn child as the murdered Cyrus.
- Mithridates Chrestus, prince from the Kingdom of Pontus, brother of Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Flavius Mithridates, 15th-century Italian Jewish translator
- Mithredath, or Mithridates, two minor Hebrew Bible figures
Other uses
- Mithridate, semi-mythical antidote named for Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Mithridatism, the practice of taking repeated low doses of a poison with the intent of building immunity to it, attributed to Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Epistula Mithridatis, a letter allegedly written by Mithridates VI of Pontus (assigned to Sallust)
- Mithridate (Racine), 1673 play by Jean Racine based on Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Mitridate Eupatore, 1707 opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, based on Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Mitridate (Porpora), 1730 opera by Porpora
- Mitridate, re di Ponto, 1770 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on Racine's play
- Mithridates, de differentiis linguarum[...], a book with 22 translations of the Lord's Prayer collected by Conrad Gessner.
See also