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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor (Paperback, 2011)
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His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father.