Mithridates

Mithridates or Mithradates (in Greek, Mιθριδάτης or Mιθράδάτης) is the Hellenistic form of an Iranian theophoric name meaning "given by Mithra", and may refer to:

a Greek historiographic adaption of Old Iranian *Mithradata:

• Mithradates, a eunuch who helped Artabanus to assassinate Xerxes I.
• Mithridates of Persia, a son-in-law of Darius III
• Mithridates I of Kios (died 363 BC)
• Mithridates II of Kios (r. 337-302 BC)

Related terms include:

• mithridate, a semi-mythical antidote
• mithridatism, the practice of taking repeated low doses of a poison with the intent of building immunity to it.
• mithridates, a philological term for any book in multiple languages, after Mithridates VI of Pontus who was said to be able to speak in over 25 languages.
• Mehrdad, the Persian language equivalent of Mithradata.

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