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Early reign

thumb|200px|right|Mithridates VI from the [1]]Mithradates VI was the son of Mithradates V (150 BC–120 BC), who died when he was a boy. During Eupator's minority, supreme power was exercised by his mother queen LaodiceAlfred Duggan, "He died old", 1958, p. 26, whom he eventually deposed and committed to prison (ca. 115 BC). However, his mother - in an attempt to be queen and have the throne of the kingdom of Pontus - killed off many of his brothers but not his sister, Laodice, whom he married. Read full entry

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