A review by kyscg
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor

informative slow-paced

3.0

It must have been hard to write this book, there are so few accounts of Mithradates that a lot of the book is a retelling of all the myths that surround him. It's not like the author doesn't acknowledge this, but it is more proof that this must have been a very hard book to write. I enjoyed it a lot, but there were definitely sections that were obviously filler and boring to go through. There is also some fanfic in the end.