Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC, inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. This title tells the story of Mithradates. "The author has read widely and shares her information with such gusto that one is easily swept up in her obvious enthusiasm."---Philip Matyszak, UNRV