Mithridates (Persian general)

Mithridates

Μιθριδάτης or Μιθραδάτης

Born|

Ancient Greece

Died| d. 334 BC

Turkey

Cause of death| stabbed with a lance by Alexander the Great

Persian general (died 334 BC)

Mithridates or Mithradates (Greek: Μιθριδάτης or Μιθραδάτης) was a Persian noble. His wife was the daughter of Darius III with the sister of Pharnaces, which made him the son-in-law of Darius.[1][2] He was slain by the hand of Alexander the Great himself, at the Battle of the Granicus (modern-day Turkey) in 334 BC, when Alexander plunged his lance through Mithridates' face.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b Arrian, 1.15.7, 16.3
2. ^ Diodorus, 17.20.2, 21.3 (wrongly naming him Spithrodates)

## Sources

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* Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Mithridates (5)"[usurped], Boston, (1867)

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