Mithridates is one of the most fascinating figures of antiquity. I highly recommend "The Poison King" by Adrienne Mayor for the story of his life. For an overview of the Mithridatic wars, I also recommend this awesome issue of Ancient Warfare Magazine: www.karwansaraypublishers.com/issue-x-3-2016.html
If he were in a video game Mithridates would be the boss that would fight you by throwing poisoned daggers and primitive clay gas grenades. Once you get him to below 50% health the fight will pause as he gives an epic speech about how much poison is running through him, enough that he goes through a metamorphosis and transforms into a giant snake. When Snakethridates loses more and more health he becomes more bloated and grotesque until eventually he explodes in a shower of highly acidic goo.
At least inside Tolkien's world, the etymology for mithril is the following: "The name mithril consists of the two Sindarin words mith ("grey, light grey") + ril ("brilliance")." Of course, it's possible that Tolkien may have gotten inspiration for the word from real-world Latin or Greek.
Honestly, considering Tolkein was first and foremost a linguist, it was probably unintentional. He fully thought out the languages in his books, or at least all the Elven tongues.
"Father of Experimental Toxicology" really does sound much better than "weird guy who forces various poisonous material down people's throats and powerful enough to get away with it"... 😅
Guys if you can I highly recommend reading The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor by far it has been one of the most fascinating books I have ever read in my life, and I encourage you all to read it. Invicta could you possibly do a story on the rise of Mithridates' Pontus as well, and how he was known as the "Second Hannibal?"
You're right although the speculative parts in it or even some "What If" or "How could it have been despite being totally absurd" scenarios often destroyed the experience of reading it temporarily. A book I would highly recommend is "Ghost on the Throne" by James Romm... most catching history book I've ever read, despite the fact that it has some "historical inaccuracies".
"There was a king reigned in the East: There, when kings will sit to feast, They get their fill before they think With poisoned meat and poisoned drink. He gathered all that springs to birth From the many-venomed earth; First a little, thence to more, He sampled all her killing store; And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, Sate the king when healths went round. They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up: They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt: Them it was their poison hurt. -I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old." -A. E. Housman
@Somali Kid This makes me wonder if there's a way to build up an immunity to lethal injection? Because I'm sure any prisoner on death row who's been given that sentence could give it a try.
It's thought he couldn't kill himself cause he shared the dose with his two daughters. He knew it would probably not be enough to kill him but at least his daughters would die a swift and soft death and not fall into the hands of the rebellious people that had supposedly lynched family members before.
@Julian Ratering That's one theory that scholars have, but we don't know exactly how Mithridates died. The 2 most common theories are: Couldn't poison himself caus' he shared it or was imune to it due to him taking the Mithridatium (unlikely as he wouldn't have carried the poison with him while being imune to it... with his knowledge on the topic he probably would have known this) and was killed by his bodyguard afterwards or he was killed by members of a coup that was staged against him by his son. Obviously the first theory that is also covered in this video is way more "romantic" as it's a great way to end the circle of life for the Poison King.
I have been waiting so long for this I remember you talking about this in some of your total war battles. It really amazed me and I really hope you cover the pontic wars as well.
It would have been funny if in his will Mithridates stipulated that upon his death his body should be cut up and fed to his enemies knowing that the amount of poison that is in his bloodstream could kill anyone.
I always loved mithradates, it was said that one side of his family was descended to Alexander and other side was Darius of Persia. The poison king used Greek style phalanx troops and Persian style scythed chariots. He's my favorite Ancient leader.
Mozart,when he was only 14 years of age.wrote an opera about Mithridates,but it is not about poison but about Mithridates 2 sons by a previous marriage,who tried to crack on to Mithridates" young wife while he was busy fighting the Romans.
I'm sure the myth of immunity to poison was far more effective in preventing poisonings than the supposed universal antidote itself. As long as it works though.
Wow. Such stories are so much better than the generic formation vs formation battles. Planning & logistics, lifestyle & culture, intrigue and curious stories such as this one is what history's lesson is truly about. Amazed by your content.
@@BoxStudioExecutive Considering that I grow about 80% of my own food, and get my meat from friends who shoot it themselves, I think I've got it covered. I'm gonna be starting a garden building channel this summer, and I'll be posting a video to my ArchEnema 67 channel soon to announce it. You can pop me the $10 on Patreon when the new channel is up and running. Thanks in advance for your support. :)
Holy damn I remember that book I started reading it years ago but I forgot the name I just remembered that there was a poison king thanks mate I need to start looking for it again.
This was amazing! :D I always admired Mithridates because of this ability to resist toxins. My favorite novel about him is called The Last King from Michael Curtis Ford. I recommend that book for everyone!
"Fortune ended up smiling on me while snuffing the life from my siblings. My older brother was trampled by a horse. My sister died of a poisoned potato... that girl was stabbed. He ate another poisoned potato. Spontaneous combustion. Fell down a well. Potato. Potato. Potato. And impaled..." - Mirthridates
Wait, where did Mithra was able to find Potato? I mean I heard that corn meant grain, but never heard anything about potato being like that. May I ask for some source?
Potatoes are indeed a New World crop. It was a joke taken from an episode of the Simpsons in which Mr. Burns explains how despite being last in line he inherited a fortune.
Hello there! Love your videos and please keep adding further reading /watching material, this help us to improve our knowledge base(i'm from brazil and it's hard to find good sources here)
10:21 I thought laudanum was the most prescribed and used earliest in history? Also, glad to see Pliny worked his magic and covered yet another fascinating topic with entirely vague and mostly useless information. He's consistent, if nothing else.
Used to watch your stuff when you did more Total War and content was great. Your passion for history vids, the quality, and professionalism without being overly formulaic gives me hope that not everything out there is playing a position. And that’s dope
Something you should mention: Mithridatism, the parctise of taking poison to build up immunity, does not work and actually is extremely dangerous. Unlike bacteria and viruses, which can be targeted by the immune system, most poisons are completely untargetable. For example you can take a small non-lethal dose of cyanide (apple seeds for example) and not be harmed at all, however you will never build up any resistance to cyanide. In fact what makes mithridatism so dangerous is that taking in non-lethal amounts of poison will eventually become fatal. Let's take cyanide as an example again, you can take eat those apple seeds every now and then, no problem, but if you do that too often you are slowly but steadily taking in more cyanide than your body breaks down; eventually leading to a lethal build up of cyanide. On top of that some poisons (especially radio active materials) are so extremely lethal that there's no such thing as a non-lethal dose. again: MITHRIDATISM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND DOES NOT WORK.
I'd like to do some more videos on the various kingdoms around the Mediterranean as they are unfortunately overshadowed by Rome. There is a ton of interesting history with these places. The story of Mithridates in particular is really fascinating.
This is simply amazing, good video man! Rarely do I stumble upon something I don't know anything about in ancient history. You do a good job of telling these stories in a way that really captivates the audience IE me! Thank you
The First Emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya was fed poisoned food regularly to help him grow immunity to poisons. Sadly, his wife died due to this same reason.
Please do one in Allyades of Lydia, Father of Croesus! First minting in electrum, griefing smaller cultures, solar eclipse battles, and much, much more.
@Hernando Malinche Uh... exactly what the video you're commenting under talks about? Greek fire? Literally everything that got burnt in the Great Library of Alexandria? All of the knowledge of civilisations whose primary record keeping was oral history? Why are you being needlessly obtuse?
@Hernando Malinche Greek fire being napalm is a theory, not a fact. And people don't act as if we would be on Mars by now, people act as if it's lost knowledge that we'd still have without needing to rediscover it. This is some "we already know everything and nothing is ever lost" revisionism.
@Hernando Malinche 2b real dude we might not be on mars but if we could make theconcrete like they used to for instance we could save millions and millions a year, theres plenty of shit that could add up and personally fund one of those mars missions in time lmao
This video is addictive and more interesting then most books and movies characters today .. thank you for this and please do more like this .. not everything interesting has to do with war :) plenty awesome stories like this about inventors, nerds , artists and so on who came in to power and fame .. I look forward to many more like this and more of the “ how it was” series in seeing how everyday things worked in cultures like owning pets or going to bathroom or schools even lol to me this is most interesting facts of day to brush up on not enough historians mention
I read the book linked in the description and I also highly suggest it. There are many more fascinating things than just the poison. A few highlights: -Executing a Roman governor by publicly pouring molten gold down his throat -Stomping his enemies in battle with a bunch of gaudy scythed chariots -Meeting three of the greatest Romans of his time (Marius, Sulla and Pompey) -Orchestrating an absolutely brutal massacre of tens of thousands of Roman citizens -Banging hot celebrity women -Starting a huge uprising in Greece and getting crushed by Sulla so badly it took Greece centuries to recover -Falling in love in his middle age (which at the time was old age) with a bad ass tribal warrior woman who became the love of his life
That book was my inspiration for this video! I absolutely love that book and can't recommend it enough. My only issue is that so much of it is guesswork but the difference between what is "known" and what is interpreted or speculated can be fairly hard to tell.
Mithridates had more than earned the title of Poison King. Wow. I'm truly impressed with the guy. If only he's never encountered the Romans. He would have probably founded and ran a very large empire. Well if not for the vicinity of the Romans.
I would love a video on each Roman Legions path through Britain during the 43AD invasion. We hear so much about boudîcâ’s revolt and not enough about the rest. I think caratâcos was more a hero and the ‘Silurian Wars’ are overlooked!
Mithridates was a prominent character in the First Man in Romes series. There was a ( possibly invented ) instance where he was on board a warship and was startled into shitting himself . That just felt so right though.
You mentioned poison from an orange bird. What was it called? I tried looking it up furiously and came up empty. I tried the captions on the video but it didn't accurately say what it was called. Something like dichiron.
I had to do a little research on the clothing :). A lot of Persian and Greek influence in a time where Rome was becoming the dominant power. Was good fun!
Time to Crush Rome with my Pontus Army. Ofcourse in Rome 2. I conquered the balkans and the Black sea, but there was no grudge, now you gave me one. Mithradates shall rule!
Mithridates is one of the most fascinating figures of antiquity. I highly recommend "The Poison King" by Adrienne Mayor for the story of his life. For an overview of the Mithridatic wars, I also recommend this awesome issue of Ancient Warfare Magazine: www.karwansaraypublishers.com/issue-x-3-2016.html
Man, this was a good video. Thanks!
I could not imagine living like this.
One of my favourite historical figures definitely looking forward to more of these types of videos and more on Pontus under his rule :D
Invicta Thank you for the wonderful content!!
If you get overthrown by the guy who spent his teenage years eating mercury then it's probably for the best anyway.
If he were in a video game Mithridates would be the boss that would fight you by throwing poisoned daggers and primitive clay gas grenades. Once you get him to below 50% health the fight will pause as he gives an epic speech about how much poison is running through him, enough that he goes through a metamorphosis and transforms into a giant snake. When Snakethridates loses more and more health he becomes more bloated and grotesque until eventually he explodes in a shower of highly acidic goo.
Awesome, bro.
Epic description
Bro I'm so high rn
@@lolgamez9171 dude WEED lmao 🤪😂 I'm so fucking high 😂😂🤪😳😵
AWESOME!
"Our king is toxic." - Pontus
Wahey!
Toxic kinginity. Very contemporary. 😂
Oooooh nigga you goin' into poisons so you can shoot them from your boys nigga oh hell naw
"gg no re" - Mithridates
Lethal hazmat
Man this guy would've loved Australia. The most venomous snakes, spiders, jellyfish and more.
I think it might have been too much for him. One drop of their poison and gone is the king.
Well step by step is the solution
Luiz Alex Phoenix Dude has maxed poison immunity. I’m sure he will do fine.
He could poison others, but not himself...ironic.
Have you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Mithridates The Poison King?
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a Roman.
"The Pontic Side of Scientific observation is a path way to abilities some consider to be unnatural"
"He had such a knowledge of antidotes...he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying"
@@Humanlink1 I fucking love this entire comment chain 😂💓
Sounds like a Metal Gear introduction.
Mithridates, Poison King.
Octavian, A man denied his inheritance
Hannibal, Crossing the Alps
A weapon to surpass Mithridatium
Elagabalus, Whore Emperor
Sporus, Boy toy for Nero
Homer Simpson, smiling politely
The question is, did Mithridates ever experiment with nanomachines?
The lost Dark Souls boss: Mithridates, the Poison King.
@Dragon50275 estus is liquid fire? also, there is poison in dark souls/bloodborne and it's brutal
@Dragon50275 videogame logic, but it is, and i don't know what estus is made out of but I doubt its toxic
@@STFUismyname: I think the word "estus" might be taken from the Latin word "aestus" meaning heat or fire.
Boss arena comes complete with Bighttown toxic snipers
*You are being invaded by Mithridates, the Poison King.*
Mithridatium = Universal Antidote
Mithril = Universal Armor
Tolkien easteregg!
Yes... But maybe it was based on another Greek or Roman by name Mithra? I mean who knows?
At least inside Tolkien's world, the etymology for mithril is the following:
"The name mithril consists of the two Sindarin words mith ("grey, light grey") + ril ("brilliance")."
Of course, it's possible that Tolkien may have gotten inspiration for the word from real-world Latin or Greek.
i always thought he just took the work myth, and messed with it to create the world mithril, to mean a strong but light metal
@KKmies He certainly did, he was an amazing linguist of his time.
Honestly, considering Tolkein was first and foremost a linguist, it was probably unintentional. He fully thought out the languages in his books, or at least all the Elven tongues.
"Father of Experimental Toxicology" really does sound much better than "weird guy who forces various poisonous material down people's throats and powerful enough to get away with it"... 😅
Its science because he took notes. That's the main difference between science and fancy murder(sometimes)
*medical science
@@gabriel300010 khmengelekhm
@LagiNaLangAko23 love is just diferent in some families
The quest to recover the recipe for Mithridatium, sounds like a good RPG story!
Fay King I’m running it this weekend
@@JamesSmith-fm6pd Yes!!! How did it go?
Fay King it went well. Start of a new campaign taking place in Italy and Greece. The players are loving it.
Guys if you can I highly recommend reading The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor by far it has been one of the most fascinating books I have ever read in my life, and I encourage you all to read it. Invicta could you possibly do a story on the rise of Mithridates' Pontus as well, and how he was known as the "Second Hannibal?"
It's really good and enjoyable but it has some speculative parts in it that should be viewed critically. Still, one of my favorite books.
You're right although the speculative parts in it or even some "What If" or "How could it have been despite being totally absurd" scenarios often destroyed the experience of reading it temporarily. A book I would highly recommend is "Ghost on the Throne" by James Romm... most catching history book I've ever read, despite the fact that it has some "historical inaccuracies".
"There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
-I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old."
-A. E. Housman
👌👌👍👍
That’s sucks he couldn’t kill himself with poison when he needs the most
Too immune with the poisons he have consumed
Ironic, he could poison others, but not himself.
@Somali Kid This makes me wonder if there's a way to build up an immunity to lethal injection? Because I'm sure any prisoner on death row who's been given that sentence could give it a try.
It's thought he couldn't kill himself cause he shared the dose with his two daughters. He knew it would probably not be enough to kill him but at least his daughters would die a swift and soft death and not fall into the hands of the rebellious people that had supposedly lynched family members before.
@Julian Ratering That's one theory that scholars have, but we don't know exactly how Mithridates died. The 2 most common theories are: Couldn't poison himself caus' he shared it or was imune to it due to him taking the Mithridatium (unlikely as he wouldn't have carried the poison with him while being imune to it... with his knowledge on the topic he probably would have known this) and was killed by his bodyguard afterwards or he was killed by members of a coup that was staged against him by his son. Obviously the first theory that is also covered in this video is way more "romantic" as it's a great way to end the circle of life for the Poison King.
I have been waiting so long for this I remember you talking about this in some of your total war battles. It really amazed me and I really hope you cover the pontic wars as well.
ruclips.net/video/9sOCFQCth2k/видео.html
This channel did a really well documentary on the Pontic Wars.
@@woutt34 Thanks Mate
It would have been funny if in his will Mithridates stipulated that upon his death his body should be cut up and fed to his enemies knowing that the amount of poison that is in his bloodstream could kill anyone.
I always loved mithradates, it was said that one side of his family was descended to Alexander and other side was Darius of Persia. The poison king used Greek style phalanx troops and Persian style scythed chariots. He's my favorite Ancient leader.
This is cool but is it proved?
more like phalanx units and cataphracts, chariots were not as popular in the in 40-90 BCE.
@@ArthaxtaDaVince777 you are correct, but Pontus was one of the last kingdoms to still use war charriot in the first century BC...
Mozart,when he was only 14 years of age.wrote an opera about Mithridates,but it is not about poison but about Mithridates 2 sons by a previous marriage,who tried to crack on to Mithridates" young wife while he was busy fighting the Romans.
He was one dangerous king. Took a guy like Sulla to crush him.
Sthitadhi Mukherjee he was still going by Pompeys first consulship
@@MrProtopopescovici damn son you're right
I wonder if he had ever crept up behind his enemy to whisper "You are already dead"
*Nani!?*
One of my favourite historical personalities
*Alchemy 100*
Nah, he's more scientific than alchemy.
@@audreyandremington5265 it's a video game joke
@@jamestrenholm3037 Oh i only play minecraft
I'm sure the myth of immunity to poison was far more effective in preventing poisonings than the supposed universal antidote itself. As long as it works though.
That actually would be a big brain move. hmm...
Wow. Such stories are so much better than the generic formation vs formation battles. Planning & logistics, lifestyle & culture, intrigue and curious stories such as this one is what history's lesson is truly about. Amazed by your content.
Well glad to hear you've enjoyed the shift to other historical content than just battles
The main reason to avoid becoming an important figure: you don't have time to know where your food comes from.
Unless you are an ancient prisoner of Mithridates
@@MDud-pg2un Sometimes it's better not to know......
$10 says you don't know whats in your food either
@@BoxStudioExecutive Considering that I grow about 80% of my own food, and get my meat from friends who shoot it themselves, I think I've got it covered. I'm gonna be starting a garden building channel this summer, and I'll be posting a video to my ArchEnema 67 channel soon to announce it. You can pop me the $10 on Patreon when the new channel is up and running. Thanks in advance for your support. :)
@@archenema6792
$20 bucks your friend didn't shoot that animal but bragged about it anyway while getting you imported beef.
I remember you talking about this in an old total war video. I'm glad you finally made a video about this topic!
This is a fascinating subject! I was unaware that toxicology was that refined in ancient times. Thanks for sharing this.
So essentially he could've started the world's first big pharma of off one product?
I'm curious, i can't get a visual on these "pig bladders" used as masks.
Michael Curtis Ford has a decent historical fiction novel about Mithridates called The Last King. Worth checking out for anyone interested
Holy damn I remember that book I started reading it years ago but I forgot the name I just remembered that there was a poison king thanks mate I need to start looking for it again.
@@thatrandomguy8115 no problem, enjoy it!
This was amazing! :D I always admired Mithridates because of this ability to resist toxins. My favorite novel about him is called The Last King from Michael Curtis Ford. I recommend that book for everyone!
I remember hearing somewhere:
"If Mithridates had supplemented his diet of poison with a dose of tiny knives, he would have invented immortality".
"Fortune ended up smiling on me while snuffing the life from my siblings. My older brother was trampled by a horse. My sister died of a poisoned potato... that girl was stabbed. He ate another poisoned potato. Spontaneous combustion. Fell down a well. Potato. Potato. Potato. And impaled..."
- Mirthridates
Pffft whats that even from 😅
Wait, where did Mithra was able to find Potato? I mean I heard that corn meant grain, but never heard anything about potato being like that. May I ask for some source?
Potatoes are indeed a New World crop. It was a joke taken from an episode of the Simpsons in which Mr. Burns explains how despite being last in line he inherited a fortune.
Hello there! Love your videos and please keep adding further reading /watching material, this help us to improve our knowledge base(i'm from brazil and it's hard to find good sources here)
10:21 I thought laudanum was the most prescribed and used earliest in history?
Also, glad to see Pliny worked his magic and covered yet another fascinating topic with entirely vague and mostly useless information. He's consistent, if nothing else.
Man Invicta, that was quite interesting about Mithridates. That was clever.
this guys is the literal definition of
"look at me still talking when there's science to do
when I look out there it makes me glad i'm not you"
I'm glad to see Robbie McSweeney's illustrations are back. They add so much to your great work.
His work really is great! He actually started his own channel with some videos using his illustrations: ruclips.net/channel/UCBjrMJLtdTBOPiqvf84fZwQ
Finally back to the Hellenistic Era. Hope to see more of Mithridates.
Thanks for telling the whole world about my accomplishment. Kudos on you good sir.
Shouldn't Roman dagger making be the subject of today?
Pepper Spray Ahhh the Ides of March
Used to watch your stuff when you did more Total War and content was great. Your passion for history vids, the quality, and professionalism without being overly formulaic gives me hope that not everything out there is playing a position. And that’s dope
Mithridates had spent the past two years building up immunity to iocane powder.
Something you should mention:
Mithridatism, the parctise of taking poison to build up immunity, does not work and actually is extremely dangerous.
Unlike bacteria and viruses, which can be targeted by the immune system, most poisons are completely untargetable. For example you can take a small non-lethal dose of cyanide (apple seeds for example) and not be harmed at all, however you will never build up any resistance to cyanide. In fact what makes mithridatism so dangerous is that taking in non-lethal amounts of poison will eventually become fatal. Let's take cyanide as an example again, you can take eat those apple seeds every now and then, no problem, but if you do that too often you are slowly but steadily taking in more cyanide than your body breaks down; eventually leading to a lethal build up of cyanide.
On top of that some poisons (especially radio active materials) are so extremely lethal that there's no such thing as a non-lethal dose.
again: MITHRIDATISM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND DOES NOT WORK.
Rens Gervers wanna bet?
@@thegreatnoldini bet on what? That mithridatism kills people rather than make them healthier or immune? Just hand over the money already
Mithradates I know. Pontus I know. Mithradatium was totally new to me. Thanks for the education.
Glad you learned something new!
Very good video keep up the good work
second view yay. By the way, nice idea to do a video about Pontus. Sometimes I forget it was a greek kingdom at all
I'd like to do some more videos on the various kingdoms around the Mediterranean as they are unfortunately overshadowed by Rome. There is a ton of interesting history with these places. The story of Mithridates in particular is really fascinating.
@@InvictaHistory Indeed. The greek colonies and kingdoms are way more interesting than people belive
I'm Pontian Greek and there's a few million of us so we never forget
@Hernando Malinche That population exchange included only the Greeks of Western Turkey
Talking about proper ancient scientific method. Great video!
Great job!! Been following the channel since the first of these historical videos, really like the idea behind them. Keep it up!!
This is simply amazing, good video man! Rarely do I stumble upon something I don't know anything about in ancient history. You do a good job of telling these stories in a way that really captivates the audience IE me! Thank you
What an amazing life and accomplishments! Thanks for making this video, it was really astounding! 😁
pleas pleas make the high quality mithridates' story come true again like kings and generals
Didn’t mithridates also get speared through the face by Alexander
Different one I know
Great videos
The First Emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya was fed poisoned food regularly to help him grow immunity to poisons.
Sadly, his wife died due to this same reason.
Just discovered your channel! Excellent videos, thank you
This man was a truly interesting character.
How am I just now getting recommended this channel when yesterday I was watching live gunfire, RUclips is such an epic
Mithridatium. What a legacy to leave behind.
Please do one in Allyades of Lydia, Father of Croesus! First minting in electrum, griefing smaller cultures, solar eclipse battles, and much, much more.
Wow i did not know this about him,great job on this video
Would love to see how this guy really looked like, being resistant to poison and all 😬
Even if he was looking good when he was young, the daily doses of poison would have made him ugly with a bad skin and other issues.
@@stelios-1821 how are you sure?
Dude, love your stuff. Keep it up!!
So much lost knowledge from ancient times, it might as well be a different planet.
@Hernando Malinche Uh... exactly what the video you're commenting under talks about? Greek fire? Literally everything that got burnt in the Great Library of Alexandria? All of the knowledge of civilisations whose primary record keeping was oral history? Why are you being needlessly obtuse?
@Hernando Malinche Greek fire being napalm is a theory, not a fact. And people don't act as if we would be on Mars by now, people act as if it's lost knowledge that we'd still have without needing to rediscover it. This is some "we already know everything and nothing is ever lost" revisionism.
@Hernando Malinche A figure of speech, hyperbole. Jesus Christ, man.
bruh it's been 2077 years but nobody truly got over the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria :(
@Hernando Malinche 2b real dude we might not be on mars but if we could make theconcrete like they used to for instance we could save millions and millions a year, theres plenty of shit that could add up and personally fund one of those mars missions in time lmao
Great video, as usual. Thank you.
Thanks : )
Great video.
Amazing content. Loved it!
Mithridates would be a perfect guest in Joe Rogans podcast. Imagine them talking about psychotropic drugs and poisons
This video is addictive and more interesting then most books and movies characters today .. thank you for this and please do more like this .. not everything interesting has to do with war :) plenty awesome stories like this about inventors, nerds , artists and so on who came in to power and fame .. I look forward to many more like this and more of the “ how it was” series in seeing how everyday things worked in cultures like owning pets or going to bathroom or schools even lol to me this is most interesting facts of day to brush up on not enough historians mention
This is amazing. Oh how wonderful science is
YEYSYEYSYEYYSYSYESYYS AWESOME! KEEP DOING STUFF LIKE THIS!!! COOL COOL COOOL.
I read the book linked in the description and I also highly suggest it. There are many more fascinating things than just the poison. A few highlights:
-Executing a Roman governor by publicly pouring molten gold down his throat
-Stomping his enemies in battle with a bunch of gaudy scythed chariots
-Meeting three of the greatest Romans of his time (Marius, Sulla and Pompey)
-Orchestrating an absolutely brutal massacre of tens of thousands of Roman citizens
-Banging hot celebrity women
-Starting a huge uprising in Greece and getting crushed by Sulla so badly it took Greece centuries to recover
-Falling in love in his middle age (which at the time was old age) with a bad ass tribal warrior woman who became the love of his life
Alchemy level 100
This is like a fantasy novel, real life is often more fascinating than fiction!
Okay hold on a second, how do you build up an immunity to mercury???? Did I miss something along the way?
Idk ask Abe Lincoln
I'm currently reading a book about him by Adrienne Mayer, hes a very fascinating person
That book was my inspiration for this video! I absolutely love that book and can't recommend it enough. My only issue is that so much of it is guesswork but the difference between what is "known" and what is interpreted or speculated can be fairly hard to tell.
@@InvictaHistory agreed
Mithridates had more than earned the title of Poison King. Wow. I'm truly impressed with the guy. If only he's never encountered the Romans. He would have probably founded and ran a very large empire. Well if not for the vicinity of the Romans.
I would love a video on each Roman Legions path through Britain during the 43AD invasion. We hear so much about boudîcâ’s revolt and not enough about the rest. I think caratâcos was more a hero and the ‘Silurian Wars’ are overlooked!
Mithridates was a prominent character in the First Man in Romes series. There was a ( possibly invented ) instance where he was on board a warship and was startled into shitting himself . That just felt so right though.
Such a great vid, thank you.
Good job man. Keep it going
Did he drink mercury?
You mentioned poison from an orange bird. What was it called? I tried looking it up furiously and came up empty. I tried the captions on the video but it didn't accurately say what it was called. Something like dichiron.
I think about mithridatium way more than any normal person should 😅
Great video my friend. Please make more videos on Eastern Rome. Thanks!
Please do another video of Mithridates battles against the Roman Republic
Epic stuff, thanks!
Damn. "The Poison King." It sounds like such an awesome title!
Excellent video. Thanks.
This gives the phrase 'your so toxic' a whole new meaning
highly awaited I watched your TW multiplayer video were you mentioned it a few days ago!
Wow that was a pretty good video. Well done.
Thank you! Amazing video! Of fascinating interest to anyone with a mind!
Thank you,
Robert Reynolds
His nickname was one of the most badass nickname in history
Worth the wait
I ENJOYED THIS!!!!💜
I really enjoyed seeing the cool Pontic clothing.
I had to do a little research on the clothing :). A lot of Persian and Greek influence in a time where Rome was becoming the dominant power. Was good fun!
That truly was an interesting video.
Why include picture of the arrival of the queen of sheba at the court of king solomon here ?
Time to Crush Rome with my Pontus Army.
Ofcourse in Rome 2. I conquered the balkans and the Black sea, but there was no grudge, now you gave me one. Mithradates shall rule!
BUT I DON'T WANT TO PLAY AS PONTUS!!!