Arcathius
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Arcathias () was a Pontic prince of Persian and Greek Macedonian ancestry, and figure in the First Mithridatic War. Arcathias was a son of Mithridates VI of Pontus and his sister-wife Laodice.
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- Gender
- male
- Father
- Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Mother
- Laodice
- Sibling
- Athenais Philostorgos II
- Occupation
- aristocrat
- Noble title
- prince
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Arcathias () was a Pontic prince of Persian and Greek Macedonian ancestry, and figure in the First Mithridatic War. Arcathias was a son of Mithridates VI of Pontus and his sister-wife Laodice.
In 89 BC, Arcathias joined Neoptolemus and Archelaus, his father's generals, with 10,000 horses, which he brought from Armenia, at the commencement of the war with the Romans.
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