Miltiades (c.555-489): Athenian nobleman, commander and politician, famous for his victory at Marathon.
Statue of a Greek general, probably Miltiades
When Miltiades,…
Mishnah (Hebrew: מִשְׁנָה, "repetition"): first great collection of rabbinical wisdom.Sepphoris|type:picture]
After the fall of Jerusalem, in 70 CE, Jewish life had no temple and no high priest any more. Judaism had to reinvent itself. The Sadducees vanished, the people who had written the…
Mithridates I Ktistes: first king of Pontus (r.281-266 BCE).The beginning of Mithridates' career is mentioned by Diodorus of Sicily, although it is a bit complex.
At about this time Mithridates, who was subject to Antigonus but appeared to be shifting his allegiance…
Mithridates IV Philopator Philadelphus: king of Pontus (r.c.160-c.150 BCE).Mithridates IV succeeded his brother Pharnaces I, who had conquered Sinope and lost Paphlagonia. Little is known about the reign of Mithridates, except for the fact that he was allied to the Romans…
Mithridates: Iberian king in Armenia (r. 36-51 CE), member of the Artaxiad dynasty.The Mithridates who became king of Armenia in 36 CE, was a younger son of another Mithridates, who had been king of the West-Caucasian kingdom of Iberia (modern Georgia) during the…