Poison King by Adrienne Mayor
The book, Poison King by Adrienne Mayor, portrays a life that is characterized with manifestation and anticipation. It asserts Alexander the Great together with Darius of Persia as Mithradates predecessors who acquired a rich wealthy Black Sea kingdom when he was a teenager at 14years after his mother killed his father. He escaped into exile but came back in triumph to be a king of top notch intellect and stern objectives. He is seen as a savior by his supporters and treated in awe as a second Hannibal by his foes (Mayor, Mithradates p. 34). He foresaw a great Eastern empire to compete with Rome. He massacred eighty thousand Romans in 88 BC and after that captured Greece and the current Turkey. He fought some of …show more content…
In novelistic writing style, Mayor shows the rural area around the Black Sea as wealthy in killer plants and environment like sulfur producing springs (Mayor, Mithradates p. 12). It is in the Springs where soldiers poisoned their arrows in snake venom. Bees produced toxic honey from toxic nectar. Waterbirds around the Black Sea also had toxic flesh, therefore, became ideal pets for Mithradates.
Summarily, The Poison King is a good reference of historical stories, and it is rich and complete but also is fast-paced and laced with suspense.
WORKS CITED
Mayor, Adrienne. "Mithradates Scourge of Rome." History Today 59.12 (2009): 10.
Molteni, Melissa Bailey. "Does Memphis Have a Fighting Chance: An Exploratory Study on the Attractiveness of Memphis, TN to Relocating or Expanding Employers." (2012).
Mayor, Adrienne. "Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics." (2010).
Roaring, Behind Turkey’S., and Adrienne Mayor. "Τελευταία Νέα."
Mayor, Adrienne. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome 's Deadliest Enemy. Princeton University Press, 2011.
Mayor, Adrienne. "Mithradates Scourge of Rome." History Today 59.12
The book, Poison King by Adrienne Mayor, portrays a life that is characterized with manifestation and anticipation. It asserts Alexander the Great together with Darius of Persia as Mithradates predecessors who acquired a rich wealthy Black Sea kingdom when he was a teenager at 14years after his mother killed his father. He escaped into exile but came back in triumph to be a king of top notch intellect and stern objectives. He is seen as a savior by his supporters and treated in awe as a second Hannibal by his foes (Mayor, Mithradates p. 34). He foresaw a great Eastern empire to compete with Rome. He massacred eighty thousand Romans in 88 BC and after that captured Greece and the current Turkey. He fought some of …show more content…
In novelistic writing style, Mayor shows the rural area around the Black Sea as wealthy in killer plants and environment like sulfur producing springs (Mayor, Mithradates p. 12). It is in the Springs where soldiers poisoned their arrows in snake venom. Bees produced toxic honey from toxic nectar. Waterbirds around the Black Sea also had toxic flesh, therefore, became ideal pets for Mithradates.
Summarily, The Poison King is a good reference of historical stories, and it is rich and complete but also is fast-paced and laced with suspense.
WORKS CITED
Mayor, Adrienne. "Mithradates Scourge of Rome." History Today 59.12 (2009): 10.
Molteni, Melissa Bailey. "Does Memphis Have a Fighting Chance: An Exploratory Study on the Attractiveness of Memphis, TN to Relocating or Expanding Employers." (2012).
Mayor, Adrienne. "Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics." (2010).
Roaring, Behind Turkey’S., and Adrienne Mayor. "Τελευταία Νέα."
Mayor, Adrienne. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome 's Deadliest Enemy. Princeton University Press, 2011.
Mayor, Adrienne. "Mithradates Scourge of Rome." History Today 59.12