Mithridates III
Basileus
Coin of Mithridates III of Pontus, minted at Amisos. The reverse portrays Athena.
King of Pontus
Reignc. 210 BC – c. 190 BC
PredecessorMithridates II of Pontus
SuccessorPharnaces I of Pontus
SpouseLaodice of Seleucids
IssuePharnaces I of Pontus
Mithridates IV of Pontus
Laodice (sister-wife of Mithridates IV of Pontus)
DynastyMithridatic dynasty
FatherMithridates II of Pontus
MotherLaodice (daughter of
Antiochus II Theos)

Mithridates III (Greek: Mιθριδάτης) was the fourth king of Pontus, son of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice. Mithridates had two sisters: Laodice III, the first wife of the Seleucid King Antiochus III the Great, and Laodice of Pontus. He may have ruled in an uncertain period between 220 BC and 183 BC. Nothing is known of him since the years just cited, because the kingdom of Pontus disappears from history. His same existence is contested by certain historians, even if it is necessary to account for Appian's indication of Mithridates VI of Pontus as the eighth king of the dynasty and the sixth of the name.[1] Mithridates married an obscure Seleucid princess called Laodice.[2][3] By this wife, he had three children: Mithridates IV of Pontus,[4] Pharnaces I of Pontus[5] and Laodice.[4]

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Notes

  1. ^ Appian, The Foreign Wars, "The Mithridatic war", 9 Archived 2009-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, 112
  2. ^ Getzel, Hellenistic settlements in Europe, the islands and Asia Minor p. 387
  3. ^ Grainger, A Seleukid prosopography and gazetteer p.50
  4. ^ a b Callatay, The First Royal Coinage of Pontos (from Mithridates III to Mithridates V) p.21
  5. ^ Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus xxxviii

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Preceded byMithridates II King of Pontus c. 210 BC – c. 190 BC Succeeded byPharnaces I
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