To drive 600,000 people by robbery into hunger, by hunger into desperation, by desperation into wild outbreaks, and by such outbreaks into the waiting knife -- such is the cooly calculated plan. Mass murder is the goal, a massacre such as history has not seen -- certainly not since Tamerlane and Mithridates.
Within a postmodern narrative of the making and unmaking of history, Ribó suggests that the September 11 attacks on the United States closely paralleled the massacre of Roman citizens in 88 B.C. and prompted similar consequences, namely the imperialist overstretch of the American and Roman republics respectively.
As the consul of Rome, Sulla prepared to depart once more for the East to fight against King Mithridates VI of Pontus, a command that Marius (now an old man) had coveted.
Xiphares (ca. 85 BC – 65 BC) was a Pontian Greek prince, who was the son King Mithridates VI of Pontus from his concubine and later wife, Stratonice of Pontus.
Pontus | Mithridates VI of Pontus | Mithridates I of Parthia | Mithridates I Callinicus | Mithridates | Mesembria (Pontus) | Stratonice of Pontus | Pontus Hultén | Pontus de Tyard | Mithridates III of Commagene | Pontus Norgren | Pontus Hulten | Pontus Gårdinger | Pontus and Sidonia | Polemon I of Pontus | Pharnaces II of Pontus | Mithridates II of Commagene | Laodice (wife of Mithridates II of Pontus) | Laodice (wife of Mithridates III of Pontus) | Ariobarzanes of Pontus |