PIRACY ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ASIA MINOR AND MITHRIDATES EUPATOR

Year 2003, Issue: 8, 189 - 213, 01.11.2003

Murat Arslan

Abstract

PIRACY ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ASIA MINOR AND MITHRIDATES EUPATOR

Abstract

During the second half of the second century BC the south coast of
Anatolia (Fig. 1) appears to have been the base of a large number of pirates
that made an income mainly via the slave trade with Rome, and who
assisted Mithridates Eupator, king of Pontus, with military operations
against the Romans during the Mithridatic Wars between 90 and 63 BC.

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