Editing Mithridates

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| meaning = given by Mithra
| region = [[Greater Iran]]
| origin = [[Iranian languages|Iranian]]
| related names = [[Mehrdad]], Mitradat, Mert, Mithad
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'''Mithridates''' {{IPAc-en|ˌ|m|ɪ|θ|r|ɪ|ˈ|d|eɪ|t|iː|z}} or '''Mithradates''' {{IPAc-en|ˌ|m|ɪ|θ|r|ə|ˈ|d|eɪ|t|iː|z}} ([[Old Persian]] 𐎷𐎡𐎰𐎼𐎭𐎠𐎫 ''Miθradāta'') is the [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic]] form of an [[Iranian languages|Iranian]] [[theophoric name]], meaning "given by [[Mithra]]".<!--{{sfn|Mayor|2009|p=1}}--> Its Modern Persian form is [[Mehrdad]]. It may refer to:

==Rulers==
*Of [[Cius]] (also known as Kios)
**[[Mithridates of Cius]] (d. 363 BC)
**[[Mithridates II of Cius]] (''r.'' 337–302 BC)
**Mithridates III of Cius (''r.'' c. 301 BC) (became Mithridates I of Pontus, for whom see below)
*Of [[Kingdom of Pontus|Pontus]]
**[[Mithridates I of Pontus]] (''r.'' c. 281–266 BC), originally Mithridates III of Cius and also called Mithridates I Ctistes, founder of the Kingdom of Pontus
**[[Mithridates II of Pontus]] (''r.'' c. 250–220 BC)
**[[Mithridates III of Pontus]] (''r.'' c. 220–185 BC)
**[[Mithridates IV of Pontus]] (''r.'' c. 170–150 BC), full name Mithridates Philopator Philadelphus
**[[Mithridates V Euergetes]] (''r.'' c. 150–120 BC)
**[[Mithridates VI Eupator]] (''r.'' c. 120–63 BC), also known as Mithridates the Great, after whom the [[Mithridatic Wars]], ''[[Mithridate (Racine)]]'', and several stage works are named
*Of [[Parthia]]
**[[Mithridates I of Parthia]] (''r.'' 171–132 BC) also known as Mithridates I the Great
**[[Mithridates II of Parthia]] (''r.'' 124–88 BC) also known as Mithridates the Great
**[[Mithridates III of Parthia]] (''r.'' 87–80 BC)
**[[Mithridates IV of Parthia]] (''r.'' 57–54 BC)
**[[Mithridates V of Parthia]] (''r.'' 129–140 AD)
** [[Meherdates]] of Parthia (''r.'' 49-51 AD) successor of [[Vonones I]] 
*Of [[Commagene]]
**[[Mithridates I Callinicus]] (''r.'' 109–70 BC)
**[[Mithridates II of Commagene]] (''r.'' 38–20 BC), full name Mithridates II Antiochus Epiphanes Philorhomaeus Philhellen Monocrites
**[[Mithridates III of Commagene]] (''r.'' 20–12 BC), full name Mithridates III Antiochus Epiphanes 
*Of [[Media Atropatene]]
**[[Mithridates I of Media Atropatene]] (''r.'' 67–66 BC)
*Of the [[Bosporan Kingdom|Bosporus]]
**[[Mithridates II of the Bosporus]] (''r.'' 47-46 BC), also known as Mithridates of Pergamon
**[[Tiberius Julius Mithridates]],  (''r.'' 39–44/45 AD, d. 68 AD), also known as Mithridates III of the Bosporus, 1st-century Roman client king
*Of [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Armenia]]
**[[Mithridates of Armenia]] (''r.'' 35–51 AD)
*Of [[Kingdom of Iberia|Iberia]]
**[[Mihrdat I of Iberia]] (''r.'' 58–106 AD)
**[[Mihrdat II of Iberia]] (''r.'' 249–265 AD)
**[[Mihrdat III of Iberia]] (''r.'' c. 365–380 AD)
**[[Mihrdat IV of Iberia]] (''r.'' c. 409–411 AD)
**[[Mihrdat V of Iberia]] (''r.'' c. 435–447 AD)
*Of [[Colchis]]
**[[Mithridates of Colchis]] ({{Floruit|83 BC}})

==Other people==
*[[Mithridates (Persian general)]] (d. 334 BC), son-in-law of Darius III
*Mitradates, according to Herodotus a Median herdsman, who was ordered to murder the future [[Cyrus the Great]] by his grandfather [[Astyages]], but who secretly raised him with his wife Cyno until the age of ten, having passed off their own stillborn child as the murdered Cyrus.
* [[Mithridates Chrestus]], prince from the Kingdom of Pontus, brother of Mithridates VI of Pontus
*[[Flavius Mithridates]], 15th-century Italian Jewish translator
*[[Mithredath]], or Mithridates, two minor Hebrew Bible figures

==Other uses==
* [[Mithridate]], semi-mythical antidote named for Mithridates VI of Pontus 
* [[Mithridatism]], the practice of taking repeated low doses of a poison with the intent of building immunity to it, attributed to Mithridates VI of Pontus 
* ''[[Epistula Mithridatis]]'', a letter allegedly written by Mithridates VI of Pontus (assigned to Sallust)
* [[Mithridate (Racine)|''Mithridate'' (Racine)]], 1673 play by Jean Racine based on Mithridates VI of Pontus
** ''[[Mitridate Eupatore]]'', 1707 opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, based on Mithridates VI of Pontus
** ''[[Mitridate (Porpora)]]'', 1730 opera by Porpora
** ''[[Mitridate, re di Ponto]]'', 1770 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on Racine's play
* ''Mithridates, de differentiis linguarum[...]'', a book with 22 translations of the Lord's Prayer collected by [[Conrad Gessner]].
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== Sources ==
* {{cite book|last=Mayor|first=Adrienne|title=The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy|date=2009|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691150260|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dKnFZa4LNjQC|pages=1-448}}
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==See also==
*[[Mithras (disambiguation)]]
*[[Mitra (disambiguation)]]

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