L. Lucullus And The Third Mithridatic War

War was brewing in the East. Rome was in Turmoil. L. Licinius Lucullus, who had fought against Mithridates before, knew that the Poison King was back at it again with a brand new invasion. Eager to fight against him, he managed to gain the province of Cilicia after his consulship. Raising an army of his own, he sailed East.

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Sallust, the Histories
Memnon
Plutarch, the life of Lucullus
Strabo, Geography
Cicero: Lucullus, Pro Murena, Letters to Atticus, Academics
Appian, Mithridates
Livy, Periochae
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