Arcathias
Arcathias(Ancient Greek:Ἀρκαθίας) was aPonticprince ofPersianandGreek Macedonian ancestry,and figure in theFirst Mithridatic War.Arcathias was a son ofMithridates VI of Pontusandhis sister-wife Laodice.[1]
In 89 BC, Arcathias joinedNeoptolemusandArchelaus,his father's generals, with 10,000 horses, which he brought fromArmenia,at the commencement of the war with the Romans.
Arcathias took an active part in the great battle fought near the river Amneius or Amnias in Paphlagonia (the modernGök River),[2]in whichNicomedes IV of Bithyniawas defeated. Two years afterwards, in 87 BC, he invadedMacedoniawith a separate army alongside a general named Taxilas. There they either annihilated the legions of Sentius or successfully ejected them from Macedonia.[3]By 86 BC, he had completely conquered Macedonia. He then proceeded to march againstSulla,but died on the way, at Tidaeum (or Potidaea or Mount Tisaion).[4][1]
The commander of the army sent to Macedonia is called "Ariarathes" byPlutarch,but it's generally assumed that this is the same person.[5]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Schmitz, Leonhard(1870)."Arcathias".InSmith, William(ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.Vol. 1. p. 257.