Mithridates VI (Eupator) was the king of Pontus (in modern-day Turkey) during the 1st and 2nd century BC and an enemy of Rome during the Mithridatic Wars. – Biography.com He lead the resistance of the Hellenistic East against Roman expansion in the first century BC. He spread the banner of revolt all the way to Greece until finally defeated, after three wars, by Pompey the Great. – from the BBC In his youth, after the assassination of his father Mithridates V in 120 BC, Mithridates is said to have lived in the wilderness for seven years, inuring himself to hardship. While there, and after his accession, he cultivated an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses of the same.He invented a complex “universal antidote” against poisoning. Hence the title, The Poison King -WikikpediaMithradates, The Poison King
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