For over four decades, Rome sent its greatest generals to contain King Mithradates the Great, a ferocious and brilliant leader on the distant Black Sea. Michael... » 

For over four decades, Rome sent its greatest generals to contain King Mithradates the Great, a ferocious and brilliant leader on the distant Black Sea. Michael Ford imaginatively recreates how Mithradates not only turned them away but threatened the very survival of the republic. «